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 ...

What’s in a forgery? More than you would expect, according to a new show at London’s Courtauld Gallery. Opening June 17, “Art and Artifice: Fakes from the Collection” brings together paintings, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There’s a spectacular contradiction at the heart of art forgery. Forgeries, which pretend to be paintings by timeless artists, ...

Modern technology is allowing art historians to verify Vincent Van Gogh's paintings as real or fake by analyzing his artistic ...

A New Jersey-based father and daughter have pleaded guilty to a multi-year scheme that passed off over 200 forged artworks as originals, defrauding buyers of at least $2 million. The fakes, attributed ...

When the German chocolate tycoon Peter Ludwig decided to collect abstract paintings from the Soviet Union, he was bound to get duped. Educated in art history, and holding a PhD for his research on ...

With its longer forms of storytelling, the podcast is sufficiently supple to investigate the labyrinthine qualities of art forgery, the peculiar celebrity of the art forger, and the modern obsession ...

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 ...

Via Shelf Awareness, a trailer for a new book by art forger Ken Perenyi—the trailer wisely focuses on Perenyi’s own account of how he became “America’s most accomplished art forger”: On a similar note ...

Actor Alec Baldwin is returning to the public spotlight with a podcast about art. Specifically, the name of his new podcast is Art Fraud. The series, the first two episodes of which dropped today on ...

There’s a spectacular contradiction at the heart of art forgery. Forgeries, which pretend to be paintings by timeless artists, hang in museums all over the world; there are more of them than anyone ...