Art and Law Jeff Koons Is Found Guilty of Plagiarism in Paris and Ordered to Pay $168,000 to the Creator of an Ad He Appropriated A French adman claims victory in his legal battle with the US artist over a surreal campaign featuring a rescue pig and freezing model. By Naomi Rea, Nov 9, 2018
Art and Law Collector Who Sold a Fake Old Master Through Sotheby’s Must Repay the Auction House $1.2 Million, Court Rules It's the latest legal development in an ongoing forgery scandal. By Sarah Cascone, Nov 8, 2018
Art and Law Did the Truth About the Fabled Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Heist Just Die Forever With Crime Boss Whitey Bulger? Tales of Bulger's involvement in the heist abound, but the museum says he had nothing to do with it. By Eileen Kinsella, Oct 30, 2018
Art World A Chinese Company Is Staging Fake Kusama and Murakami Exhibitions, and the Artists Are Extremely Unhappy About It It is unclear who is behind the alleged scam or how widespread it is. By Sarah Cascone, Oct 25, 2018
Art and Law The Museum of the Bible Removes Five of Its Dead Sea Scrolls From View After Researchers Prove They’re Fake Scientific analysis of the scroll fragments found "characteristics inconsistent with ancient origin." By Eileen Kinsella, Oct 22, 2018
People Luc Tuymans, Giuseppe Penone, and Other Art-World Figures Defend Museum Director After Russian Forgery Scandal Catherine de Zegher is fighting to keep her job after mounting a show of alleged Russian avant-garde forgeries. By Sarah Cascone, Oct 11, 2018
Art and Law A Judge Sentences Disgraced Dealer Ezra Chowaiki to 18 Months in Prison for Fleecing High-Profile Art Collectors of Millions The former ice cream salesman cooked up an elaborate scheme to defraud prominent victims. By Eileen Kinsella, Sep 28, 2018
Art World The Man Who Attacked Marina Abramović With a Painting Claims He Did It for His Art The performance artist was shaken but unharmed in the incident during her retrospective in Florence's Palazzo Strozzi. By Naomi Rea, Sep 24, 2018
Art and Law Embattled Malaysian Financier Jho Low Was the Underbidder for the World’s Most Expensive Picasso, a New Book Reveals US Department of Justice documents detail some of Jho Low’s high-flying art purchases. By Eileen Kinsella, Sep 24, 2018
Art World It Turns Out Cornelius Gurlitt’s Sister Hid Nazi-Looted Art, Too, as Four Drawings Are Returned to Jewish Heirs The works will be included in an upcoming exhibition of the Gurlitt hoard at the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin. By Naomi Rea, Sep 11, 2018
Art and Law Veteran Art Dealer Mary Boone Pleads Guilty to Tax Evasion She has agreed to repay the IRS $3 million. By Eileen Kinsella, Sep 5, 2018
Art and Law Is China Going Rogue to Reclaim Its Looted Art? A Recent String of Museum Heists Is Raising Suspicions A series of thefts began in 2010, shortly after China ramped up its efforts to reclaim looted antiquities. By Sarah Cascone, Aug 17, 2018
Art and Law One of America’s Top Art Collectors Was Duped Into Buying Fake Leon Golub Paintings. Now, He’s Getting His Day in Court The fake paintings fooled everybody. By Sarah Cascone, Aug 9, 2018
Art and Law A US Collector Has Returned 12 Ancient Treasures to Thailand as Part of a Crackdown on Looted Artifacts Thai artifacts at the Norton Simon Museum and the Honolulu Museum of Art are also under investigation. By Sarah Cascone, Aug 3, 2018
Art World Did a Rogue Collector Order the Theft of Sweden’s Crown Jewels? Police Hunt for Missing Treasure, Motives, and the Thieves Who Escaped by Speedboat Police suspect a collector ordered the theft of the gold crown and orb from a cathedral as the hunt for the criminals continues. By Kate Brown, Aug 2, 2018
