Art & Crime
Italian police have arrested three people accused of organizing a daring art theft ring, while a fourth suspect, a prince from an old Venetian family, is on the run. The thieves allegedly broke into three different villas in Venice, replaced valuable...
In 2007, the Czech artist Roman Tyc used stencils to replace the green and red pedestrians on 50 streetlights at major intersections with funny or disturbing images: a peeing man, a figure hanging from a rope, a sensuous playmate, a crucifixion victim, even a...
An Abstract Expressionist artist most remembered for his questionable dealings with the Mark Rothko estate is now, ironically, at the center of a bitter dispute surrounding his own legacy. A good friend of Rothko, Theodoros Stamos was one...
A legal battle is brewing between the estate of legendary dealer Ileana Sonnabend and the International Revenue Service over a stuffed bald eagle. Well, sort of — that eagle happens to be part of Robert Rauschenberg’s famous...
A controversy surrounding a trove of allegedly fake Modernist paintings by the likes of Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning is currently rattling the art world. The scandal has all the makings of a Hollywood drama: millionaire businessmen,...
MELBOURNE — Art Series Hotel Group, owners of three art-themed boutique hotels each inspired and dedicated to a different Australian contemporary artist, has managed to drum up a storm of publicity by offering an irresistable challenge to wannabe art...
Each year, the French Academy in Rome welcomes about 20 artists, writers, and musicians for an artistic residency in the historic Villa Medici, which has housed the academy for over two centuries. Recently, it has also been host to guests of a different,...
The French internal revenue service is demanding a gigantic €250 million ($330 million) in back taxes from Guy Wildenstein, the scion of the powerful French art-dealing clan, who has been accused of undervaluing the estate of his father, Daniel Wildenstein....
Os três anos de batalhas judiciais entre Richard Prince e Patrick Cariou ainda não terminou. Os advogados de Cariou manifestaram sua oposição ao apelo de Prince à decisão histórica em direitos autorais em 2011, em um depoimento enviado ontem à Corte de...
In the latest developments from last summer’s discovery of extensive fraud involving some of the most prominent members of Germany’s art world, a multimillion dollar civil lawsuit has been filed against the Cologne-based auction house Lempertz. The €2.8...
