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 ...

Can’t get enough of the current Old Master forgery scandal? As artnet News awaits new details about the potentially $225-million in fakes and who might be responsible, we’re turning to our book ...

"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 ...

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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 ...

"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 ...

Coming Home, a 1947 painting purportedly by Gertrude Abercrombie, is one of the works now suspected to be a forgery. Courtesy of Hindman Auctions Last week, a team of 30 FBI agents raided a northern ...

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 ...