Dealers revealed that as many as 95 percent of Russian avant-garde paintings currently in circulation aren’t legitimate, a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Italian authorities have dismantled an international network of art forgers responsible for creating and selling counterfeit works by some of the world's most famous artists, including Andy Warhol, ...

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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 ...

PhD candidate in Creative Writing, University of the Sunshine Coast Art forgery is a devilish attempt to deceive its audience. Experts’ negative reaction to Kirsha Kaechele’s admission she forged the ...

Han van Meegeren fecit / Hope B. Werness -- What is wrong with a forgery? / Alfred Lessing -- Forgery and the anthropology of art / Leonard B. Meyer -- Art and authenticity / Nelson Goodman -- ...

For hundreds of years, humans have engaged in the fine craft of art forgery. Indeed, in 1496, a 21-year-old Michelangelo faked a piece of a Roman sculpture, passing it to the Roman antiquarian ...

In 2010 the Detroit Institute of Arts hosted the exhibit "Fakes, Forgeries, and Mysteries" — about how experts figure out whether artworks are authentic. Above, a painting titled A Female Saint (left) ...