Forgery in the manner of John Constable (1776–1837), "Seascape," watercolor, The Courtauld, London (all images courtesy Samuel Courtauld Trust) LONDON — A certain romanticism surrounds art forgery.

Interviews with the Beltracchis and footage of Wolfgang working in his studio make up the bulk of the film. Birkenstock evidently spent years visiting the couple, first at their estates in Mèze in the ...

Ambitious, laborious, and nearly impossible to pull of without attracting plenty of suspicion from those in a position to know such things, art forgery occupies a strange corner of the white-collar ...

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 ...

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

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

Spanish police have seized five Old Master forgeries that were being sold for a collective €76 million ($84 million). Four of the works were being marketed as the work of Francisco Goya, and the fifth ...

It’s been a strange season for me, I have to admit. That’s the only excuse I can think of for why, although I usually devour each quarterly issue of Jacobin as soon as I find it in my mailbox, it’s ...

Italian authorities say a network of European art forgers who painted fake Warhols, Banksys and Picassos and then tried to sell them to unsuspecting buyers with the help of complicit auction houses ...

Art Fraud, a new eight-episode podcast hosted by Alec Baldwin, is a riveting chronicle of the art world's biggest scandal in recent years. In the words of Michael Shnayerson, who reported on the story ...

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 -- ...

In 2010 the Detroit Institute of Arts hosted the exhibit "Fakes, Forgeries, and Mysteries" — about how experts figure out whether artworks are authentic. Above, a painting titled A Female Saint (left) ...