News
Museum to Exhibit Its Impressive Collection of … Fakes?
Art and Artifice at the Courtauld Gallery in London will include 30 artworks once mistaken as originals by Sandro Botticelli, Auguste Rodin, and others
Art Crime
News
1,000+ Objects at The Met Linked to Antiquities Smugglers
A report by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists revealed hundreds of works once owned by people accused of or convicted of antiquities crimes.
News
Stolen Elaine de Kooning Work Found in Colorado Hotel Room
Boulder authorities also uncovered stolen guns, drugs, and work by artist Jane Freilicher.
News
Looted Antiquities Seized by DA Belonged to Met Trustee
The Manhattan District Attorney’s office recovered 23 looted objects from Shelby White’s home over the last year and a half.
News
American Woman Tried to Smuggle 166 Maya Objects From Guatemala
Stephanie Allison Jolluck was apprehended by authorities days after a close call with airport security, who found two 1,000-year-old artifacts in her luggage.
Film
The Couple Behind One of History's Most Brazen Art Heists
The Thief Collector goes beyond the 1985 theft of Willem de Kooning’s “Woman-Ochre” to explore the speculative history of the presumed thieves who held onto it for over 30 years.
News
Sale of Possibly Looted Yemeni Objects Raises Red Flags
A Yemeni researcher alleges that dozens of unlabeled artifacts originating from Yemen are slated for sale at a British auction house.
News
Michigan Art Dealer Swindled Seniors in $1.6M Fraud Scheme
Wendy Halsted Beard defrauded her clients of over 100 photographs, including works by Ansel Adams, and targeted elderly collectors.
News
$100M Stolen de Kooning Painting Returns to Museum After 37 Years
Willem de Kooning's “Woman-Ochre” was sliced out of its frame at the University of Arizona Museum of Art in a notoriously brazen theft.
News
John Oliver Roasts Museums in Episode on Looted Art
The episode focused on Western museums' hesitant repatriation efforts and auction houses’ questionable consignment practices.
News
Tucked Away in LA For Decades, 2,000-Year-Old Roman Mosaic Returns to Italy
An art attorney contacted the FBI on behalf of an anonymous client who was in possession of a mosaic of Medusa.
Opinion
Cambodia's Stolen Treasures Must Be Returned to Where They Belong
And no, Cambodia doesn't need the Metropolitan Museum's help in preserving its cultural heritage.