Crime A String of Burglaries Targeting Security Vulnerabilities Have Stripped a Cologne Museum of Objects Worth Millions Most recently, thieves entered through a poorly repaired window to take nine pieces of valuable Chinese porcelain. By Adam Schrader, Oct 4, 2023
Crime A Rogue Curator at the Palace of Versailles Was Found Guilty of Conducting Private Tours of the Estate That Earned Him $26,000 The curator was suspended, until a regional court recently overturned the palace's disciplinary action. By Richard Whiddington, Oct 3, 2023
Crime The Great Wall of China Has Suffered ‘Irreversible’ Damage After Two Workers Excavated a Shortcut Through the Cultural Relic The pair have been detained and charged with destroying a cultural relic. By Adam Schrader, Sep 28, 2023
Crime A German Museum Employee Has Been Caught ‘Shamelessly’ Swapping Original Paintings for Fakes to Fund His Lavish Lifestyle The man is said to have spent the money on a new apartment, wristwatches, and a Rolls-Royce. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Sep 25, 2023
Crime Disgraced Dealer Inigo Philbrick’s Co-Conspirator, Robert Newland, Sentenced to 20 Months in Prison Newland, who helped Philbrick execute and perpetuate the massive fraud, will serve just over one and a half years in jail. By Eileen Kinsella, Sep 20, 2023
Politics The State Hermitage Museum Teams Up With a Tehran Cultural Heritage Organization as Russia Bolsters Ties With Iran Western museums have largely cut ties with the St. Petersburg institution. By Sarah Cascone, Sep 20, 2023
Opinion Kenny Schachter Surveys the Start of the Fall Art Season, Unearthing Feuds, Farces, and Secret Identities Galore Oh, and our columnist also has some thoughts on his former friend Inigo Philbrick's rapidly nearing release date. By Kenny Schachter, Sep 19, 2023
Crime A New Documentary Revisits a Knotty, Unresolved Forgery Scandal that Rocked Australia’s Art World The two-part program investigates the suspected forgery of artworks attributed to Brett Whiteley and the ripple effects that followed. By Artnet News, Sep 19, 2023
Crime The Family of Billionaire Collector George Lindemann Has Returned $20 Million Worth of Looted Antiquities to Cambodia The precious antiquities were discovered by Cambodian investigators thanks to a 2008 photo spread in 'Architectural Digest.' By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Sep 13, 2023
Crime A Vincent van Gogh Painting Stolen From a Dutch Museum Three Years Ago Has Just Been Returned—in an Ikea Bag The 1884 painting was stolen from the Singer Laren museum in 2020. By Taylor Dafoe, Sep 12, 2023
Crime Fake Celebrities, Code Names, and ‘Stuffing’: Inigo Philbrick’s Collaborator Reveals the Elaborate Plots They Used to Con Collectors Out of Millions 'I’d quickly come to learn that a fair amount of deception was accepted practice in the art world,' disgraced dealer Robert Newland said. By Eileen Kinsella, Sep 12, 2023
Crime A London Auctioneer Has Pleaded Guilty to Forging Provenance Documentation to Sell Ancient Coins Worth Millions Richard Beale, owner of Roma Numismatics, now faces up to 25 years in prison. By Artnet News, Sep 11, 2023
Crime The Vandal Who Desecrated a Chinese Terracotta Warrior Vows to Sell His Sneaker Collection to Pay Restitution Michael Rohana will be back in court next month to determine how much he must pay in restitution. By Sarah Cascone, Sep 8, 2023
Politics Canada Has Sanctioned the Director of Russia’s Hermitage Museum Over His Support for the War in Ukraine Mikhail Piotrovsky has been head of the museum since 1990. By Sarah Cascone, Sep 5, 2023
Crime The Manhattan D.A. Seized a $20 Million Statue of Marcus Aurelius From the Cleveland Museum of Art, Continuing a Spree of Raids Seeking Looted Turkish Art The D.A. is looking to return Turkey's stolen Bubon bronzes, and has also seized a sculpture from Fordham University's antiquities museum. By Sarah Cascone, Sep 1, 2023
