He even hired Alaska Natives as clerks in his stores as part of the ruse, and will serve the longest sentence on record for violating the Indian Arts and Crafts Act

Michael Barzman will pay a fine, do community service and be on probation for his role in the forgery scandal

According to the lawsuit, Aaron De Groft stood to benefit from the eventual sale of the fake Basquiats—and planned subsequent shows of works purportedly by Titian and Pollock

The Seattle-based artist had pleaded guilty to violating the federal Indian Arts and Crafts Act

Disputed attribution claims rarely play out in court, but two recent legal cases could provide valuable lessons for acquisitions teams at cultural institutions across the UK

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

A new public exhibition hall is mired in controversy over the provenance of the musician’s collection of relics related to the Alamo in Texas

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

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

Trustees who say they were summarily dismissed over email as retaliation claim that the board chair concealed information about an FBI subpoena months before the Basquiat exhibition opened

The National Gallery of Art has carried out scientific tests on the works, finding fascinating discoveries beneath the paint

Imports of artworks manufactured abroad to replicate Indigenous Canadian styles are not currently regulated

Imelda Marcos is just one of a series of despots with appalling taste

An allegedly fake Kandinsky and NFTs of Ukrainian cities' coats of arms are among the works being offered to support Putin's aggression

More than a decade after his unusual forgery scheme came to light, Mark Landis discusses his artistic origins and Manhattan solo exhibition

Image recognition and data scraping technology are increasingly being used by the NFT community to protect intellectual property online

The Washington-based artists have been charged with claiming enrollment in Indigenous tribes, violating the Indian Arts and Crafts Act

Fraudsters are using Facebook to dupe people into buying artists’ works at bargain-bucket prices while supplying cheap knock-offs

The art collective MSCHF has shuffled an original Warhol with 1,000 identical works, with any record of the original piece destroyed

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

Catalogue raisonné rejects unusual part-painting, part-sketch, as expert says the “colonial” nature of the composition is not the artist’s style

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

Seized as part of a forgery investigation, the work has been fully studied and must no longer be kept as evidence

Mikhail Piotrovsky addresses London dealer Andre Ruzhnikov’s claims that the Russian exhibition includes ‘tawdry fakes’

Plus, the story of a notorious forger and artist Collier Schorr on August Sander

Ahead of yesterday's sale in Paris, the Man Ray Trust called for a delay claiming that Lucien Treillard “stole a substantial number of Man Ray’s works and possessions"

Why would someone buy a non-fungible token of a rainbow-toting cat, which already exists in millions of identical copies?

The Los Angeles institution confirmed the work was not authentic last year

London Court of Appeal upholds the auction house's defence in forgery case, rejecting appeal by investment company Fairlight Art Ventures