The artefact had been recovered from a US gallery in 2017, but since then its status was a mystery

The trove of 30 Mesoamerican objects includes a ceremonial trophy for the first ball game

Italian police used wire taps and drone surveillance to intercept the thieves

The repatriated artefacts—1,440 in all—included pieces that had passed through the New York galleries of Subhash Kapoor and Nancy Wiener

Vast Europe-wide art fraud operation led to 38 suspects being arrested

Two of the vulnerable works were damaged and abandoned, while two others were apparently too large to fit in the getaway car and so were cut out of their frames

Schiff will be sentenced on one count of wire fraud early next year

While she inspired Inventing Anna on Netflix, Sorokin struggled to reinvent herself as a top-tier dancer during her short stint on the reality competition show

Bankruptcy trustees have proposed selling hundreds of works through the auction house, with hopes to recover up to $2m

Prosecutors described David Voss as the leader of a forgery ring that created thousands of fake works by Norval Morrisseau

The purported German heiress’s grand plans to open a Manhattan art club unravelled in 2018 and were the subject of the Netflix series “Inventing Anna”

The small storefront institution, devoted to objects and ephemera related to the most expensive painting ever sold, will reopen soon

Television series linked to convicted fraudsters such as Inigo Philbrick and Anna Delvey raise ethical and legal questions

The work on paper, purchased at Christie’s New York in 2014, was allegedly paid for with money embezzled from Malaysia’s 1MDB sovereign investment fund

Christian Claus faces decades in prison for faking an art heist that would have netted a co-conspirator a $128,500 insurance payout

The Manhattan District Attorney's Office has charged the owners of Merces Gallery with selling prohibited animal products online

The 18-page document had previously disappeared from the Holy See's official archive

David Voss reportedly led a forgery operation that created more than 1,500 fake Norval Morrisseau works over 23 years

The longtime California art dealer is facing up to 15 years in prison

George Osborne’s comments were made on Thief at the British Museum, which has been released both as a one-off television show and a radio series

Some of the 133 objects being repatriated are associated with the antiquities smugglers Subhash Kapoor and Richard Beale

The institution’s chair George Osborne has described the total number of items returned as a result that “few expected”, though more than 800 remain missing

A bracelet and torc dating back thousands of years were taken from Cambridgeshire’s Ely Museum last week, shining a light on underfunding and its potential impact on security

The oil on wood painting by Eramus Quelliness II was taken in a raid in 1979, though the thieves left behind much more valuable works

Police are appealing for information about two other paintings stolen in the same 2020 burglary

A production company working with HBO has optioned a memoir by Philbrick’s former friend and business partner Orlando Whitfield

More than 40 people bought what they thought were original paintings by Max, but were in fact prints to which the seller had added paint and signatures

Is a return for the disgraced art dealer that unthinkable? Plus, how Article 23 might impact the art sector, and a closer look at a royal weapon coming on show in London

Earl Marshawn Washington had pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and mail fraud this past summer

The museum's former acting head of the Greece and Rome department, Peter Higgs, is facing legal action after being accused of stealing up to 2,000 objects