Jon S. Dellandrea is an art historian and collector, the chair emeritus of the Art Canada Institute, and the author of The Great Canadian Art Fraud: Forgeries of The Group of Seven and Tom Thomson. To ...
In the intricate world of art, where authenticity reigns supreme, the craft of faking art has evolved into a deceptive symphony orchestrated by master forgers In the intricate world of art, where ...
'The director of this film knows nothing about art. It's a pity." So says Wolfgang Beltracchi, the style-swiping painter and convicted fraudster who is the curious subject of Beltracchi: The Art of ...
Interviews with the Beltracchis and footage of Wolfgang working in his studio make up the bulk of the film. Birkenstock evidently spent years visiting the couple, first at their estates in Mèze in the ...
Ambitious, laborious, and nearly impossible to pull of without attracting plenty of suspicion from those in a position to know such things, art forgery occupies a strange corner of the white-collar ...
What’s in a forgery? More than you would expect, according to a new show at London’s Courtauld Gallery. Opening June 17, “Art and Artifice: Fakes from the Collection” brings together paintings, ...
With its longer forms of storytelling, the podcast is sufficiently supple to investigate the labyrinthine qualities of art forgery, the peculiar celebrity of the art forger, and the modern obsession ...
Art forgers not only turn themselves in, they have lucrative careers even after conviction. Just ask Michelangelo. Are you an artist, a struggling, grudge-filled artist? Do you have technical ...
Art is evaluated partly through inferred intention. uthenticity in art matters not just for its market value but because it ...