"To trick the art world has been the primary motivation of nearly all of history's known forgers," writes Noah Charney, a professor and author who specializes in art history and crime, in text for an ...

While revelations about presidential candidates dominate the mainstream news cycle in the lead-up to next month’s election, the number one scandal currently rocking the art world is the widespread ...

AI presents a radical new escalation of the art world's oldest crime. The post AI Is a Godsend for Criminals Forging Fake Art ...

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What is the afterlife of an art forgery? Numerous stories on counterfeits end once the trickery has been unmasked, the coterie corralled and the investigation closed. But in some cases, known fakes ...

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 ...

"If I'm allowed to have a favorite forger, which I know sounds a little bit funny, it would be Eric Hebborn, who's really the prince of art forgers," Noah Charney says. "He's the only one of over ...

A new book looks at ‘treasures’ that fooled the world’s experts. Noah Charney reveals who created them – including one who became a giant of the Renaissance. In his new book The Art of Forgery, art ...

IT IS the £100million question that the art world can not answer. Is the haunting young woman in Renaissance dress with braids in her hair a sitter for Leonardo da Vinci, or is she really a girl ...

In September, southern France-based art historian Eric Forcada was serving as a guest curator to a small, state-owned museum in the region. As he was hanging one of the museum’s paintings on a wall ...