What, exactly, is the “value” of a work of art? I have been asking myself this question since I read an Asahi Shimbun story about the Tokushima Modern Art Museum’s announcement that an oil painting in ...
It’s hard to find a fruity drink that doesn’t taste like something you’ll regret in the morning, but occasionally one comes along that subverts expectations. Case in point: the Gran Cobbler, a ...
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.
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 ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by The unmasking of a fake Galileo manuscript this summer brought renewed attention to a colorful, prolific early-20th-century forger named Tobia Nicotra ...
Forgery has long shadowed the law. Courts once contended with altered signatures, doctored invoices, and counterfeit stamps; the methods were crude, the traces often visible, and a handwriting expert, ...