Karen Lo says the dealer Pearl Lam never followed through with her purchase of a well-known painting by the secretive British artist

The painting, which reportedly features a birthday message to the American actress on its back, was seized during a smuggling raid, officials say

A new report claims New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has many items in its collection with major provenance issues

Plus worryingly low artists’ pay in the UK and an Ugly Duchess

Eduardo Ulises Martinez was convicted of illegally transporting ivory and obstruction of justice

Eight suspects are arrested and more than 1,000 works seized following investigation into forgeries of paintings by the Ojibwe artist Norval Morrisseau

Daniel Elie Bouaziz was accused of selling fake works by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Jean-Michel Basquiat

Detroit-area gallery owner Wendy Halsted Beard was arrested last year on mail and wire fraud charges following an FBI investigation

The appellate court judges’ decision came as a surprise, as the general prosecutor had asked for the charges—which relate to the acquisition of Egyptian antiquities by the Louvre Abu Dhabi—to be dropped

The repatriated artefacts were looted by an international network of “high-profile antiquities traffickers and smugglers, according to the Manhattan District Attorney’s office

Vadym Huzhva handed a five-year sentence for 2018 theft and for stealing four other paintings in France, including a Renoir

Decision brings the six-year investigation into the provenance of 15,000 antiquities from Phoenix Ancient Art to an end, with only a handful found to lack proper documentation

The former employee faces four federal charges over an alleged fraud scheme that went on for 13 years

Paintings worth $400,000 that were stolen from a storage truck on 14 December 2022 have been located in a Colorado hotel room

Penelope Jackson is the author of a book that considers how illicit activity differs when undertaken by women

Italian Lanfranco Cirillo—whose 150-strong art collection was seized last year—will be tried in absentia by an Italian court next month for tax and money laundering crimes

Police are investigating the theft of five paintings from a vehicle in a hotel car park

The Carabinieri accuse four people of downgrading and illegally exporting the Old Master work, which has now been returned to the show in the Palazzo Ducale

Decades after it was stolen from the Worcester Art Museum, collector Clifford Schorer spotted a missing Dutch Golden Age painting printed on a throw pillow

After seven years of investigations, Ruffini has been handed over to French authorities, likely setting the stage for a trial in Paris

Announcement was made during the trial of six men which began in January and is due to resume this week

Belle et Belle gallery has now been dissolved, closing the chapter on a decade-long criminal investigation

The 77-year-old, wanted by French police for "fraud, money laundering and forgery of works of art", was released after ten days in custody

The French dealer, who is under investigation for selling a series of allegedly forged paintings, has had a warrant out for his arrest since 2019

Authorities received an anonymous tip regarding an object listed for sale on the auction house’s website and described as a Mescalero Apache scalp

The objects associated with Kapoor, along with another five pieces returned to Pakistan, were cumulatively valued at $3.4m

The sandstone vishnu statue was stolen from a seventh-century temple and smuggled to Manhattan in 1995, when it was sold to a private collector

The ruling culminates an extensive investigation into a smuggling ring headed by Kapoor

Verdict for the owners of Belle et Belle is expected in November

Court documents from the ongoing Inigo Philbrick fraud saga reveal that the secretive art market and the sheer attractiveness of its lifestyle will always suck the punters in