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

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 ...

Michelangelo is known for masterpieces like the Sistine Chapel and the statue of David, but most people probably don't know that he actually got his start in forgery. The great artist began his career ...

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 ...

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 ...

Spanish police have seized five Old Master forgeries that were being sold for a collective €76 million ($84 million). Four of the works were being marketed as the work of Francisco Goya, and the fifth ...

Italian authorities say a network of European art forgers who painted fake Warhols, Banksys and Picassos and then tried to sell them to unsuspecting buyers with the help of complicit auction houses ...

An evidence photo released by the Ontario Provincial Police of forgeries of Canadian Indigenous artist Norval Morrisseau's work - Copyright AFP Alessandro SERRANO An ...

On the spot: A taxidermy leopard from the Carnegie Museum of Art's collection is part of "Rosette." As an undergraduate art student in a painting-conservation course he was taking abroad, Lyndon ...

Fake works attributed to the artist Banksy found in a workshop and different points of sale, in Spain MADRID (Reuters) - Police in Spain have dismantled an art forgery ring suspected of selling ...

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