Art & Crime
What is the most frequently stolen artwork in history? The answer is The Ghent Altarpiece by Jan van Eyck, stolen six times (seven, depending on who you ask). The most frequently given incorrect answer (even the Guinness Book of World Records got this...
Yesterday, the government opened its art vault to the highest bidder. Online auctioneers Gaston & Sheehan, on behalf of the U.S. Marshal Service, completed an auction of 245 works of art that have been forfeited to the government in the...
Over the weekend, news broke that federal authorities are investigating a group of at least 16 possible forgeries sold by some of New York’s most elite art dealers over the course of nearly two decades. The investigation focuses on Long Island dealer Glafira...
Six men are currently appearing in a southern French court, charged with stealing four paintings valued at €22 million ($29.3 million) from Nice's Musée des Beaux-Arts in 2007. And in a turn of events that has taken on all the trappings of a crime drama, they...
Lembram-se do eletricista de Picasso no sul da França, que alegou que o artista deu a ele 271 obras? Ele foi indiciado no último verão depois de os beneméritos de Picasso o terem acusado de ter roubado os itens. Agora um caso semelhante está sendo...
You never know what you might find hidden in your bathroom. A stash of art dating from the High Renaissance through the Modernist period and worth millions of dollars has been discovered in the outhouse of a 92-year-old former bricklayer in Poland.The...
When a profile of megadealer Larry Gagosian lands, it lands with a bang. The Armenian-born imperial gallerist very rarely gives interviews, for one thing — even the New York Times failed to nail him down for comment in their lively 2009 attempt, noting that...
Patrick Cariou's victory last Friday in his copyright suit against artist Richard Prince — which determined that Prince's work did not sufficiently transform or comment on Cariou's original — signaled another startling development in the troubled and...
