Art and Law The Man Who Scavenged Gerhard Richter’s Cast-Off Sketches From the Trash Is Found Guilty of Theft The director of the Gerhard Richter Archive became suspicious because while the works looked genuine, the backstory did not ring true. By Javier Pes, Apr 25, 2019
Art and Law A Stolen Painting by Signac, Worth More Than $1 Million, Is Recovered in Ukraine Officials are investigating whether the same gang suspected of stealing the painting by Paul Signac could been involved in further art crimes. By Kate Brown, Apr 24, 2019
Art and Law In the Trial of Alleged Art-World Scammer Anna Delvey, a Former Vanity Fair Editor Recounts Being Conned in the Luxury Trip From Hell A lavish trip to Morocco ended in disaster for Rachel Williams who was left with $60,000 in debt By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 18, 2019
Art and Law ‘Socialite Scammer’ Anna Delvey Is Now on Trial. The Evidence Suggests That Her Art Schemes Were Epic Aby Rosen and Gabriel Calatrava will both be called to the stand. By Eileen Kinsella, Mar 28, 2019
Art and Law The ‘Indiana Jones of the Art World’ Has Found a $28 Million Picasso Stolen From a Saudi Prince’s Yacht Two Decades Ago Dutch investigator Arthur Brand recovered the painting of Dora Maar. By Sarah Cascone, Mar 26, 2019
Art and Law Thieves Stole a $3.4 Million Brueghel From a Remote Italian Church—or So They Thought. Here’s How the Village Tricked Them The town's mayor was one of the few people who knew that the real painting was somewhere safe but locals had their suspicions something was up. By Nan Stewert, Mar 13, 2019
Art and Law A Collector Says He Found a Jackson Pollock Painting Once Owned by Fidel Castro. Experts Say It’s a Scam The International Foundation for Art Research says the fake could point to a larger con. By Eileen Kinsella, Feb 27, 2019
Art and Law Cairo Airport Officials Found a Smuggled Mummy’s Limbs Hidden in a Hollowed-Out Loudspeaker X-rays helped officials spot the suspicious package before it could leave the country. By Eileen Kinsella, Feb 27, 2019
Art and Law The ‘Ivory Queen’ Is Sentenced to 15 Years in a Tanzanian Prison for Smuggling Tons of Elephant Tusks Into Asia Chinese-born Yang Feng Glan is being held accountable for her role in the poaching of hundreds of elephants. By Sarah Cascone, Feb 20, 2019
Art and Law Veteran Art Dealer Mary Boone Is Sentenced to 30 Months in Prison for Tax Evasion The veteran art dealer pleaded guilty to two counts of tax evasion in September. By Eileen Kinsella, Feb 14, 2019
Art World A Dutch Art Detective Tracked Down a Pair of Stolen Medieval Stone Reliefs in an English Aristocrat’s Garden The Visigothic artifacts were stolen from a Spanish church in 2004. By Henri Neuendorf, Jan 22, 2019
Art World A Painting Stolen From a Belgian Church Last Week Might Have Been by Michelangelo An authenticator was set to examine the work the day after it disappeared. By Sarah Cascone, Jan 15, 2019
Art and Law Thieves Make Off With a Painting From New York’s Team Gallery in Broad Daylight After a Half-Mile Chase The gallery has been dusted for prints and police are on the case. By Sarah Cascone, Jan 11, 2019
Art and Law Skateboarding Thieves Stole a Giant $4 Million Coin From a Berlin Museum. Now a Trial Begins—But the Coin’s Still Missing The gang is accused of stealing the giant coin, smashing its bulletproof showcase and escaping using a skateboard and a wheelbarrow. By Kate Brown, Jan 10, 2019
Opinion The Perplexingly Popular Conspiracy Theory That ‘Salvator Mundi’ Is Connected to #Russiagate, Explained Trump, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Christie's, a new shadowy world order... it all adds up! By Ben Davis, Jan 9, 2019
