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

Museums, universities and other art organisations have tapped into the enduring fascination with forgeries for pedagogic purposes

Michael Barzman, who formerly ran an auction company that bought and resold the contents of storage lockers, said in plea agreement that he and another man made and sold 20 to 30 fake Basquiats

Eight suspects are arrested and more than 1,000 works seized following investigation into forgeries of paintings by the Ojibwe artist Norval Morrisseau

The French dealer, who is under investigation for selling a series of allegedly forged paintings, has had a warrant out for his arrest since 2019

An allegedly fake Kandinsky and NFTs of Ukrainian cities' coats of arms are among the works being offered to support Putin's aggression

More than a decade after his unusual forgery scheme came to light, Mark Landis discusses his artistic origins and Manhattan solo exhibition

Image recognition and data scraping technology are increasingly being used by the NFT community to protect intellectual property online

Indian antiquities dealer Monson Mavunkal is currently in custody following a string of fraud allegations, including trying to sell a walking stick he said belonged to Moses. But he is not the first con artist to target the art world

In latest hearing of ongoing legal saga, Fairlight Art Ventures, co-vendor of painting sold in 2011 for $10.75m, is refusing to pay auction house more than $5.3m

French expert Marc Restellini claims substantial modifications to Italian painter's 1915 portrait of Beatrice Hastings were not mentioned by Christie's when the picture was sold—twice

There Are No Fakes connects a forged Norval Morrisseau painting to a crime ring behind "the greatest art scam in Canadian history"

Authorities brazenly took 34 artefacts during public opening hours at the Brussels fair

Countries' rush to restitute objects is part of the problem, says Belgian lawyer

French customs officials have barred the return of Saint Cosmos to the US following its inclusion in a show at the Jacquemart André Museum in Paris

An international conference considered the challenges and risks— not to mention the sheer size of publications

The former husband of heiress Petra Ecclestone owes £5m in debt including an unpaid sum of £3.9m to Christie's

Italian court postpones decision over Lino Frongia's arrest and transfer to France until February

The NBCUniversal vice chairman and co-founder of Creative Artists Agency claims two art dealers duped him into buying the fake painting for nearly $1m in 2001

Criminal investigation launched three years ago into Parisian dealers at La Biennale continues to diminish confidence in the event's integrity

Abbott Laboratories suspects fakes found their way into its collection during conservation process

The market for work by African American artists is on the rise but museums are falling behind

The problem is exacerbated as estates and foundations are increasingly unwilling to authenticate due to the threat of litigation

Noah Charney on the potential problems and fascinating details behind these little-known and under-studied objects

The process of art attribution has come under attack, with forgery scandals rampant

Now painting under his own name, Beltracchi's works are part of a selling exhibition currently touring Europe

Maurizio Seracini concurs that the painting sold by Sotheby’s in 2012 is a modern forgery

“I cannot imagine where a terracotta life-size horse head could come from in antiquity,” a specialist says

Scholar Vivian Barnett and dealer James Butterwick among the signatories