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Alleged Hezbollah Financier Charged in Art and Diamonds Scheme
Nazem Ahmad disguised millions of dollars’ worth of transactions to evade US sanctions, according to the indictment.
Art Crime
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LA Auctioneer Admits to Helping Create Fake Basquiats
Michael Barzman of North Hollywood confessed to lying to the FBI about the provenance of forgeries exhibited at the Orlando Museum of Art.
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FBI’s New Stolen Art App Leaves a Lot to Be Desired
Users can search for stolen works and submit tips, all while navigating the aesthetic world — and technology — of a 1990s spy movie.
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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
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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.
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Stolen Elaine de Kooning Work Found in Colorado Hotel Room
Boulder authorities also uncovered stolen guns, drugs, and work by artist Jane Freilicher.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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$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.