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, ...

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 ...

Consider Supporting HoH: In 1946, the second world war had just ended, a Dutch artist and art collector stood trial in Amsterdam. His charge? Collaboration, for selling cherished cultural heritage to ...

Art is evaluated partly through inferred intention. uthenticity in art matters not just for its market value but because it ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For hundreds of years, humans have engaged in the fine craft of art forgery. Indeed, in 1496, a 21-year-old Michelangelo ...

Tony Tetro (left) "emulates" the works of masters such as Picasso (right), Dalí and Monet, even mimicking their signatures. John Chapple; Getty Images Tony Tetro ranks among the world’s most talented ...

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 ...

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 ...