Fake Art

Italian authorities have uncovered a massive forgery ring spanning across Europe, estimated to be worth $215 million. The authorities have identified 38 individuals across Europe suspected of participating in a large-scale operation to…

Artist Damien Hirst is embroiled in allegations of claiming many of his works to be much older than they actually are. On Tuesday, The Guardian ran an expose on the artist, revealing that more than a thousand of his paintings were made…

Two men, who had sold fake Dalí and Picasso works worth $3.2 million, were sentenced to prison earlier this month. Behrad Kazemi and Raj Nasta were accused of running a fraudulent financial service that duped people into buying fake…

Daniel Elie Bouaziz, a Florida-based art dealer accused of selling fake works of artists like Andy Warhol, has pleaded guilty. Over the course of a long investigation that concluded in 2021, the FBI investigated Daniel Elie Bouaziz for…

A painting in the Ashmolean Museum, previously considered a copy, is now authenticated as genuinely made in artist Rembrandt van Rijn workshop. The painting, titled “Head of a Bearded Man”, was first acquired by the Ashmolean Museum in…

Prince Charles, heir apparent to the British monarchy, found himself unwittingly entangled in a $136 million art scandal. The story begins with Dumfries House, a 17th-century historic estate, which occasionally serves as an exhibition…