Crime A BBC True Crime Podcast Is Asking Museums for Help Locating a Murder Victim’s Remains to Solve a Cold Case If the skeleton is recovered it may reveal the woman's origins or even her surviving relatives. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, May 4, 2023
Crime A U.K. Court Has Found Two Collectors Guilty of an Illegal Scheme to Sell a $960,000 Hoard of Anglo-Saxon Coins The coins belong to the Heresfordshire hoard and were never reported, violating the U.K.'s Treasure Act. By Richard Whiddington, Apr 28, 2023
Crime A Dealer Who Fled the U.S. After Being Convicted of Selling Fake Art by Franz Kline and Milton Avery Has Just Been Extradited Angela Catherine Hamblin was convicted of selling $400,000 of fake paintings in 2009. By Taylor Dafoe, Apr 25, 2023
Crime 55 Hindu Relics Stolen From Temples Across India Have Been Located in the Home of an Art Collector The Chennai-based collector was also found to possess illegally smuggled antiquities last year. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Apr 25, 2023
Crime Spanish Police Have Seized Five Fake Goya and Velázquez Paintings Supposedly Worth a Collective $84 Million The works will go on view in an exhibition of seized forgeries curated in conjunction with Spanish police. By Sarah Cascone, Apr 14, 2023
Crime A Man Tried to Climb One of Canada’s Most Famous Public Artworks and Got Trapped Inside It Until Rescuers Found Him It took the fire department an hour and a half to free the man. By Sarah Cascone, Apr 12, 2023
Crime An Auctioneer Has Confessed to Playing a Major Role in Producing Fake Basquiats Displayed at the Orlando Museum of Art Los Angeles auctioneer Michael Barzman pled guilty to lying to the FBI about creating the works. By Sarah Cascone, Apr 12, 2023
Crime How a Drawing of Donald Trump at His Arraignment Became the First Courtroom Sketch to Cover ‘The New Yorker’ The sketch has also gone viral on Twitter. By Richard Whiddington, Apr 7, 2023
Crime The Oddball Sideshow for Trump’s Arraignment? The Case of a Movie Producer Who Allegedly Waltzed Into a West Village Townhouse to Steal 9 Paintings Raymond Bouderau appeared in the same courthouse as the former president to face charges of burglary. By Sarah Cascone, Apr 4, 2023
Crime A Drunken Party Guest Has Pled Guilty to Stealing the Thumb of a $4.5 Million Terracotta Warrior at a Philadelphia Museum He faces a maximum sentence of two years in jail and a fine of $20,000. By Sarah Cascone, Apr 4, 2023
Crime An Artist Lost Hundreds of Digital Artworks When His Laptop Was Stolen. He’s Now Offering a Reward of $1.2 Million for Its Safe Return It's a cruel irony for an artist whose work frequently focuses on money and theft. By Richard Whiddington, Apr 4, 2023
Crime The Met Museum Returns More Looted Art to Greece and Turkey, Including 15 Antiquities Seized From Disgraced Dealer Subhash Kapoor The D.A.'s office has confiscated a total of 17 artifacts from the Met this year to date. By Sarah Cascone, Apr 3, 2023
Crime Did Bulgarian Police Just Discover a Previously Unknown Jackson Pollock Painting? Here’s What the Evidence Suggests On the back of the painting is a dedication to actress Lauren Bacall, dated to her 25th birthday. By Taylor Dafoe, Mar 24, 2023
Crime A New Report Has Linked More Than 1,000 Antiquities in the Met Museum’s Collection to Traffickers An investigation by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists calls into question the origin of the museum's antiquities holdings. By Sarah Cascone, Mar 23, 2023
Crime The Dealer Who Sold the World’s Most Expensive Coin Has Been Arrested for Falsifying the $4.2 Million Artifact’s Provenance An investigation found the coin, along with other ancient objects, were sold with forged provenance certificates. By Taylor Dafoe, Mar 13, 2023
