In the intricate world of art, where authenticity reigns supreme, the craft of faking art has evolved into a deceptive ...
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, ...
DB Henkel is accused of masterminding the plot to sell fake paintings by historical American artists. Gertrude Abercrombie, Coming Home (1947). The painting is now thought to be a forgery by DB Henkel ...
There’s a spectacular contradiction at the heart of art forgery. Forgeries, which pretend to be paintings by timeless artists, hang in museums all over the world; there are more of them than anyone ...
Consider Supporting HoH: In 1946, the second world war had just ended, a Dutch artist and art collector stood trial in ...
An investigation led to 38 individuals accused of producing and selling counterfeit Banksy, Warhol, Picasso, and Dalí pieces, among others. Two Carabinieri officers with the Unit for the Protection of ...
The art world is "fertile ground for criminals," says art scholar Noah Charney. In his new book, The Art of Forgery, he traces a tradition of... Could The Masterpiece Be A Fake? Profit, Revenge And ...
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 ...
Ambitious, laborious, and nearly impossible to pull of without attracting plenty of suspicion from those in a position to know such things, art forgery occupies a strange corner of the white-collar ...
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