Law & Politics The FBI Has Seized Suspected Nazi-Looted Art From a Little-Known Upstate New York Museum The painting had been in the collection of prominent German patron Rudolf Mosse. By Kate Brown, Oct 24, 2019
Law & Politics After the Release of a New Movie on a Notorious Art Fraudster, the FBI Is Seeking the Owner of a Dubuffet Painting Connected to the Case The French-born con man at the heart of the scandal is now the subject of a new BBC documentary. By Caroline Goldstein, Oct 11, 2019
Art World What Makes Someone Attack a Work of Art? Here Are 9 of the Most Audacious Acts of Art Vandalism—and What Inspired Them Conservators, here is your trigger warning. By Caroline Goldstein & Katie White, Oct 2, 2019
Law & Politics Last Year the Met Spent $4 Million on a Golden Sarcophagus. It Turned Out to Be Looted. Now They Had to Send It Back The return coincides with a new interview with Max Hollein in which the Met director reveals his relatively centrist views on restitution. By Eileen Kinsella, Sep 26, 2019
Law & Politics Thieves Used Neckties to Steal $2.2 Million in Loot From a French Castle That Helped Inspire Versailles The robbers have yet to be captured. By Caroline Goldstein, Sep 23, 2019
Art World How the Filmmakers Behind ‘The Goldfinch’ Built Near-Perfect Replicas of the Met and the Dutch Masterpiece at the Story’s Heart The book and the movie center on the Carel Fabritius painting of the same name. By Sarah Cascone, Sep 16, 2019
Law & Politics European Police Are Making Arrests in a String of High-Profile Old Master Forgeries of Cranach, El Greco, and Others An Italian artist has been arrested under suspicion of painting a fake El Greco connected to the Old Master forgery ring. By Sarah Cascone, Sep 13, 2019
Law & Politics A Group of Thieves Bungled a Break-In at Anselm Kiefer’s Studio When Trying to Steal One of His Sculptures The criminals were likely trying to strip the work for its lead. By Taylor Dafoe, Sep 12, 2019
Law & Politics London Art Dealer Joseph Nahmad, Scion of a Powerful Collecting Family, Pleads Guilty to Assaulting His Girlfriend The dealer comes from one of the world's most prominent art dynasties and runs Nahmad Projects in London. By Rachel Corbett, Jul 31, 2019
Art World The 8 Most Embarrassing Art-Heist Fails of All Time, From an Insanely Obvious Dalí Switcheroo to the Getaway Van That Wouldn’t Gogh "The Thomas Crown Affair" these are not. By Katie White, Jul 23, 2019
People Mick Jagger Will Play a Crooked Art Collector in a New ‘Erotic Neo-Noir Thriller’ Movie About a Painting Heist Donald Sutherland co-stars as a reclusive artist in the mold of J.D. Salinger. By Sarah Cascone, Jul 23, 2019
Law & Politics The Portland Museum of Art Wins Its $4.6 Million Lawsuit Against a Caretaker Accused of Coercing an Elderly Donor Into Changing Her Will The elderly woman signed over her estate to her caregiver—rather than the museum and her family—shortly before she died. By Sarah Cascone, Jul 23, 2019
Law & Politics A Lawyer Allegedly Convinced His Elderly Client to Sell Him a Brancusi for a Pittance. Now, the Collector Is Suing Him for $200 Million Stuart Pivar claims he was duped into selling a Brancusi bronze for far below market value. By Sarah Cascone, Jul 18, 2019
Law & Politics Artist Cady Noland Refuses to Give Up Her Legal Fight Over the Restoration of Her Disavowed Log Cabin Sculpture A complicated copyright case is nearing its conclusion. By Sarah Cascone, Jul 15, 2019
People Police Are Investigating the Murder of African American Museum Founder Sadie Roberts-Joseph, Found Dead in the Trunk of a Car Sadie Roberts-Joseph founded what is now called the Baton Rouge African American History Museum. By Sarah Cascone, Jul 15, 2019
