Two Carabinieri officers with the Unit for the Protection of Cultural Heritage with a display of counterfeit Banksy artworks uncovered in an art forgery investigation (all images courtesy Ministero ...

In the intricate world of art, where authenticity reigns supreme, the craft of faking art has evolved into a deceptive ...

Italian police have dismantled a pan-European forgery network accused of producing and distributing replica artworks by more than 30 artists including Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Salvador Dalí, Andy ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Art forgery has shadowed the art market for centuries, but in the last few decades it has escalated into a global industry.

The most famous art forgery crime in history is the case of Han van Meegeren, a Dutch painter arrested in 1945. Initially, he was charged with treason: selling genuine works by Vermeer, a national ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 38 people across Europe are suspected of involvement in a sweeping scheme to create and sell fake works attributed to Banksy, ...

Are there more great artists or great art forgers? Statistics are hard to come by, but when an art forgery is uncovered, the likelihood is that one man or, more rarely, a woman, was producing multiple ...

A mesmerizing, thought-provoking yet surprisingly amusing documentary on the life and times of Wolfgang Beltracchi, who tricked the international art world for nearly 40 years by forging and selling ...

Convicted fraudster’s sentencing pushed back amid widening dispute between family, foundation and authenticators ...

Han van Meegeren fecit / Hope B. Werness -- What is wrong with a forgery? / Alfred Lessing -- Forgery and the anthropology of art / Leonard B. Meyer -- Art and authenticity / Nelson Goodman -- ...