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

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

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

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

Newland was arrested in the UK in February and extradited to the United States in September, where he admitted his role in the $86m scheme for which Inigo Philbrick was sentenced to seven years in prison

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

‘Inventing Anna’ falls flat when it comes to depicting the art world

An attorney in the Inigo Philbrick fraud case described the trade as completely rotten, I disagree

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

The 34-year-old was arrested while in hiding on the Pacific island Vanuatu

Claiming to own the rights to the works of the late New York street artist, the dealer confessed to selling works he did not own, and defrauding institutions for loans

Charges involved sale of a £1.1m Yayoi Kusama pumpkin sculpture that was never delivered and the theft of £50,000 that a friend had given her to invest