The longhaired sexagenarian says he didn’t intend to be a fraudster. Drawn to painting from childhood, he later would scour estate sales for work by others that he could sell to galleries; he began to ...

What, exactly, is the “value” of a work of art? I have been asking myself this question since I read an Asahi Shimbun story about the Tokushima Modern Art Museum’s announcement that an oil painting in ...

To museum professionals, forgery is no laughing matter. But to those whose livelihoods aren’t wrapped up in it, the subject of forgery is as perversely fascinating and fun as any crime story. A ...

Focused on art forgery, this flabbergasting story expands into a full scale expose of the modern confidence game and why, after all these years, it still works. Arne Birkenstock’s fascinating ...

'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 ...

Art world controversy and criminality has become a documentary subgenre of late, but what sets “Beltracchi: The Art of Forgery” apart is how breezily compassionate it is toward a master deceiver and ...

This thought-provoking and amusing documentary focuses on the life and work of Wolfgang Beltracchi and his wife Helene, who for nearly four decades fooled the international art world with the biggest ...

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Wolfgang Beltracchi, the "forger of the century," created chaos in the art market with his fake paintings - and hundreds are still circulating. Now a film on the "Robin Hood of art" is showing in New ...

Art world controversy and criminality has become a documentary subgenre of late, but what sets “Beltracchi: The Art of Forgery” apart is how breezily compassionate it is toward a master deceiver and ...