Art & Crime
NAPLES, Florida — You may not know the name of Xiamen, China-based company LSI Art Co., but increasingly it's becoming a must-check destination for living artists — though not necessarily for happy reasons. LSI's website Oilpaintings-supplier.com...
In an effort to document and preserve the most valuable and iconic pieces of public aerosol art in and around Sydney, the City of Sydney is in the process of developing a register of significant aerosol art murals. The City’s current public art...
Not much good news comes out of war-torn Afghanistan these days. However, last week did offer a small coup of cultural diplomacy for the UK: With help from the British Museum, England returned 843 looted art objects to the National Museum of Afghanistan in...
FBI agents recovered "Odalisque in Red Pants," a painting by Henri Matisse that had been missing for nearly a decade, in an elaborate sting on Tuesday. The Daily Mail reports that two suspects attempted to sell the painting to agents posing as art...
ERFURT, Germany — Eight members of a far-right extremist organization attacked the opening of “Miss Painting” at the Kunsthaus Erfurt on Friday, the institution announced Sunday. In what sounds like a scene out of a Western, the accused individuals entered...
Two New York-based jewelry dealers have pleaded guilty for offering and selling illegal elephant ivory, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr. announced this week. In a public statement, Vance placed the retail value of the small...
A forger-proof system for “fingerprinting” art? This technology is a reality according to one of its developers, the engineer and conservationist Dr. Bill Wei of the Netherlands Institute of Cultural Heritage, who spoke at the recent ARCA Conference on...
A conspiracy to sell forged works by Picasso, Goya, Manuel Viola, Menchu Gal, and Benjamín Palencia has led to arrests in three major cities in Spain, the Spanish news site Informador reports. Since May, officers from the National Police in...
The Knoedler Gallery scandal continues, and with each turn it becomes more and more like a Hollywood summer thriller. Last Friday, financier and former Bear Stearns senior managing director John D. Howard filed a new civil complaint against the now-...
It's back! We know readers have been dying to know what's going on in the strange legal battle between Todd White — the former SpongeBob SquarePants character designer, Ren & Stimpy animator, and sometimes fine artist — and his 62-year...
