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

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Art forgery is alive and thriving, even here in 2026. Dealers revealed that as many as 95 percent of Russian avant-garde paintings currently in circulation aren’t legitimate, a staggering figure that ...

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 ...

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.

V&A art detective Vernon Rapley poses with forger’s tools during a past exhibition on artistic forgeries. Photo by Anthony Devlin/PA Images via Getty Images To combat what it called the “scourge” of ...

What is it, exactly, that qualifies a piece of art as a masterpiece? Some hold that the artist must create something previously unknown, while others base the work off of credible technique or the ...

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 ...

At least four works by a famous convicted forger have been discovered in Japan. Transparency about the mistakes, however, has sparked as much curiosity as scandal. By Ephrat Livni The Tokushima Modern ...