Dealers revealed that as many as 95 percent of Russian avant-garde paintings currently in circulation aren’t legitimate, a ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Interviews with the Beltracchis and footage of Wolfgang working in his studio make up the bulk of the film. Birkenstock evidently spent years visiting the couple, first at their estates in Mèze in the ...

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Han van Meegeren fecit / Hope B. Werness -- What is wrong with a forgery? / Alfred Lessing -- Forgery and the anthropology of art / Leonard B. Meyer -- Art and authenticity / Nelson Goodman -- ...

For hundreds of years, humans have engaged in the fine craft of art forgery. Indeed, in 1496, a 21-year-old Michelangelo faked a piece of a Roman sculpture, passing it to the Roman antiquarian ...

PhD candidate in Creative Writing, University of the Sunshine Coast Art forgery is a devilish attempt to deceive its audience. Experts’ negative reaction to Kirsha Kaechele’s admission she forged the ...

Italian police have uncovered a pan-European forgery ring responsible for producing and selling counterfeit artworks attributed to dozens artists including Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, Salvador Dalí ...

In this overview lecture, we will look at examples of art crime in its various forms: theft, forgery and terrorism. Together we will investigate the difference between an original and a fake. Can you ...