Law & Politics 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
Law & Politics 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 23, 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
Law & Politics 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
Crime 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
Law & Politics 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
Law & Politics 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
Law & Politics Was the Met’s Prized Picasso Sold Under Duress Because of the Nazis? A New Appeal Revives an Eight-Year-Old Legal Battle The case hinges on the legal definition of the term "duress." By Sarah Cascone, Jul 30, 2018
Law & Politics A $1.2 Million Ancient Persian Sculpture Seized From TEFAF New York Must Be Returned to Iran, Judge Rules Investigators showed that the work was looted and smuggled from the country in the 1930s. By Henri Neuendorf, Jul 24, 2018
Law & Politics The FBI Has Recovered a Crimson Robert Motherwell Painting Stolen 40 Years Ago by a Moving Man The theft was an inside job. By Eileen Kinsella, Jul 12, 2018
Law & Politics Italian Police Nab Suspects in an Antiquities Smuggling Ring After a Years-Long Investigation Code-Named ‘Operation Demetra’ Suspects in at least four countries are implicated in the looting of Sicily's most famous site. By Eileen Kinsella, Jul 5, 2018
Art World Amid a Wave of Repatriation, Sotheby’s Stands Its Ground Against Greece’s Claim to an 8th-Century Bronze Horse Sotheby's and the seller say that Greece hasn't provided any proof that the object was stolen. By Eileen Kinsella, Jul 2, 2018
Law & Politics The Billionaire Wildenstein Art-Dealing Dynasty Is Cleared in France’s Biggest Tax-Fraud Case (Again) The Paris court of appeals has upheld the 2017 ruling acquitting the art dealing family of tax evasion and money laundering. By Naomi Rea, Jul 2, 2018
