Investigation focuses on purchases made by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Louvre Abu Dhabi

Philbrick pleaded guilty to an $86m fraud in November in one of the art world's highest-profile criminal lawsuits in decades

The one-night event during Frieze Week in New York also gave attendees the opportunity to buy prints of Sorokin's satiric prison sketches

Chrismas, who was arrested by the FBI in 2021, is also facing up to 15 years in prison if convicted in a separate criminal case

The returned objects include artefacts from the collection of amateur archaeologist Donald Miller, the subject of a high-profile raid in 2014

NFTs are a major new economy and with every major new economy, there is a big new scam

The pop-up show ‘Free Anna Delvey’ includes a work Sorokin made in prison, as well as pieces by dozens of other artists

Decision follows years of uncertainty around dwindling enforcement funding

The authors’ overview of the types of art crime includes serious analysis—and some entertaining tales

Illicit trade in cultural heritage finds a home on social networks, study reveals

Indian antiquities dealer Monson Mavunkal is currently in custody following a string of fraud allegations, including trying to sell a walking stick he said belonged to Moses. But he is not the first con artist to target the art world

Plus, Warhol’s Catholicism and Moscow’s new museums

Steve Kough also stole three paintings from the Detroit Institute of Arts in 1982—while on trial for conspiracy to distribute marijuana

Consuelo Císcar, the former director of the Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, is said to have bought works attributed to Gerardo Rueda—but that were painted by his son

Figures indicate fewer museum thefts, more illegal excavations

Experts fear country could become "gateway to Europe for illicit cultural property", while new asset seizure powers—which include art—are being introduced to help criminal investigations into unexplained wealth

The conviction of the father-and-son duo, Des and Gary Pickersgill, for the thefts of around £1.7m from an elderly widow's home, brings renewed focus on the threat of antique “knockers”

The host of the Art Bust podcast argues that the nature and purpose of art crime–and by extension, of the art detectives who fight it—has changed in recent years

Regulation of the conservation profession may be a start, but can it quash the “ego” that often motivates restorers-turned-forgers?

So far a total of 475 "art market participants" have been registered—but delays mean more are likely to comply in the coming months

Jason Harrington pleaded guilty to selling phony paintings to at least 15 galleries and individuals between 2018 and 2020

Oligarch is blacklisted as countries ramp up regulation and authorities move yet another step closer to the art world

Angel Pereda was offering paintings and sculptures by the artists to auction houses in New York

Authorities have reportedly arrested a man after the paintings were found in a gorge

Spanish police say they used the ID-art programme to successfully spot stolen Roman coins worth €200,000

The Khalil Museum, with its fabled Impressionists in a mansion by the Nile, has reopened after an 11-year renovation—without Vincent’s flower still-life

The suspect is linked to a Frans Hals theft, which should help track down paintings from two museums

Plus, vaccine passports in museums and Gossaert's Adoration

The man allegedly opened an emergency door at the museum and threw in a painting he had stolen from a nearby gallery days earlier

Mwazulu Diyabanza says that “museums do not deserve respect” as restitution debate intensifies