Forgery, Falsification & Theft of Artworks

CSI meets Who Do You Think You Are? meets Time Team meets The Antiques Roadshow. Two-dimensional works of art become three-dimensional thrillers. ...

Long-time art critic Richard Dorment reveals the corruption and lies of the art world and its mystifying authentication process.Late one afternoon ...

Humorous and inspirational quotes from America''s 43 Presidents The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, ''I''m from the gover...

It's the great undoing of my heart as I know it.Daisy Haites thought she'd left everything about her old life in the past: the crime, her family an...

The destruction of ancient monuments and artworks by the Taliban in Afghanistan and the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has shocked observers world...

The world was stunned when eighty-year old Cornelius Gurlitt became an international media superstar in November 2013 on the discovery of over 1,40...

Art is theft, Picasso once proclaimed, and much of the best and most original new art involves an act or two of unequivocal, overt theft.  Parado...

Wide-ranging, witty and fresh a stimulating read. Authentic funTim Harford, Financial Times Best Summer Books 2022 Brilliantly witty, pr...

The illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages are among the greatest works of European art and literature. We are dazzled by them and recognize th...

Interest in art crime is at an all-time high. Academia is committing greater resources to it, lawyers are increasingly specialising in the field, a...

True tales of lost art, built around case studies of famous works, their creators, and stories of disappearance and recovery From the bestselling a...

Through much of its history, Italy was Europes heart of the arts, an artistic playground for foreign elites and powers who bought, sold, and someti...

The story of art is integral to the story of the rise of Nazi Germany. Adolf Hitler, an artist himself, was obsessed with art--in particular, the a...

Discover the extraordinary stories behind the world's missing works of art.Travel back in time to discover works of art that have vanished from the...

James J. Rorimer, former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, became a leading figure in the art recovery unit known as the Monuments Men, a...

Art scams are today so numerous that the specter of a lawsuit arising from a mistaken attribution has scared a number of experts away from the busi...

A fascinating and deeply rewarding book Adam Zamoyski, Daily Telegraph Napoleons Plunder chronicles one of the most spectacular art appropriatio...

The Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg is one of the greatest museums in the world, with a history stretching back over 300 years and vast, wide-r...

This first comprehensive analysis of the Third Reich's efforts to confiscate, loot, censor and influence art begins with a brief history of the ...

Debates about the restitution of cultural objects have been ongoing for many decades, but have acquired a new urgency recently with the intensifica...

Discover the secrets, mysteries, hidden meanings and stories behind famous works of art. A book full of surprises, discoveries, forgotten treasures...

Countless dollars of art are stolen or looted every year, yet governments often consider art theft a luxury problem. With limited public law enforc...

In this powerful memoir, Tasoula Hadjitofi reveals her perilous journey orchestrating The Munich Case -one of the largest European art trafficking...

Does an authentic Andy Warhol painting need to be painted by Andy Warhol? Why do audiences feel outraged when they find out that scenes from their ...

Probing, jargon-free and written with the pace of a detective story... [Procter] dissects western museum culture with such forensic fury that it m...

At the end of World War II, the US Office of Military Government for Germany and Bavaria, through its Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives division, ...

Observer's Best Art Book of the Year, 2018In 2007, Bolton Crown Court sentenced Shaun Greenhalgh to four years and eight months in prison for the c...

Forgeries are an omnipresent part of our culture and closely related to traditional ideas of authenticity, legality, authorship, creativity, and in...

The roll-call of wars down the centuries is paralleled by an equally extensive narrative of the theft, destruction, plundering, displacement and co...

In August 1939, curators at the Louvre nestled the world's most famous painting into a special red velvet-lined case and spirited her away to the L...