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, ...

When a father and daughter pleaded guilty to selling more than 200 counterfeit works by Banksy, Picasso and Warhol, the criminal case was largely resolved. The fate of the paintings is still up in ...

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 ...

A crime caper starring Kelly Marie Tran that is set in the art world is ready to make its mark. Utopia's Circle Collective has acquired North American rights to writer-director Jing Ai Ng's feature ...

Deception is not new to the art world, but generative AI creates new pathways through which it can enter the market.

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

An evidence photo released by the Ontario Provincial Police of forgeries of Canadian Indigenous artist Norval Morrisseau's work - Copyright AFP Alessandro SERRANO An ...

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

The notorious art forger Wolfgang Beltracchi is releasing an NFT art collection. Fittingly, the artist—infamous for his uncanny ability to mimic the work of others—is making 4,608 versions of Leonardo ...

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 ...