In the intricate world of art, where authenticity reigns supreme, the craft of faking art has evolved into a deceptive ...
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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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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If you’re a fan of slick crime stories with a sharp edge, a trailer for The Christophers just dropped and it’s got all the ingredients for a killer art-world caper. Steven Soderbergh , the filmmaker ...
Italian police have dismantled a pan-European forgery network accused of producing and distributing replica artworks by more than 30 artists including Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Salvador Dalí, Andy ...
The suspected forgery, Heinrich Campendonk's “Landscape With Horses” (1915) (image via spiegel.de) The painting in question (seen above) is a rather fanciful expressionist composition caught somewhere ...
Police in Spain have dismantled an art forgery ring suspected of selling artworks falsely attributed to British street artist Banksy, with some pieces fetching prices of 1,500 euros (or $1,640) or ...
Convicted fraudster’s sentencing pushed back amid widening dispute between family, foundation and authenticators ...
March 15 -- John Myatt, the unassuming master forger at the heart of what British police have called the biggest contemporary art fraud of the 20th century, once stood at the back of an auction room ...