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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Academy of Arts and Sciences. 2017. “Art Museum Attendance.” Accessed May 2018. https://www.humanitiesindicators.org/content/indicatordoc.aspx?i=102. Art Media ...
THIS IS apropos of a recent news item reported in Dawn regarding the arrest of a man named Tariq Hussain for selling fake paintings of the masters, along with their “authentication letters” at a ...