In the intricate world of art, where authenticity reigns supreme, the craft of faking art has evolved into a deceptive ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jonathon Keats is a writer and artist who critiques museum exhibits. When the German chocolate tycoon Peter Ludwig decided to ...

For hundreds of years, humans have engaged in the fine craft of art forgery. Indeed, in 1496, a 21-year-old Michelangelo ...

Watch out, art forgers: one company has released a tool that it claims could put an end to authenticity disputes for good. Over the past several years, institutions in both the US and the UK have been ...

The longhaired sexagenarian says he didn’t intend to be a fraudster. Drawn to painting from childhood, he later would scour estate sales for work by others that he could sell to galleries; he began to ...

German police believe Martin bought forged painting for around $850,000 in 2004. By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief COLOGNE, Germany — German police believe actor Steve Martin may be among the ...

What’s in a forgery? More than you would expect, according to a new show at London’s Courtauld Gallery. Opening June 17, “Art and Artifice: Fakes from the Collection” brings together paintings, ...

Two Carabinieri officers with the Unit for the Protection of Cultural Heritage with a display of counterfeit Banksy artworks uncovered in an art forgery investigation (all images courtesy Ministero ...

The New York art world was shocked when the city’s oldest gallery abruptly closed its doors more than four years ago. A few days later, news broke that Knoedler & Company was accused of selling ...

With its longer forms of storytelling, the podcast is sufficiently supple to investigate the labyrinthine qualities of art forgery, the peculiar celebrity of the art forger, and the modern obsession ...

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