Art crime
From ‘Soho scammer’ to television dancer: Anna Sorokin will compete on Dancing with the Stars
The purported German heiress’s grand plans to open a Manhattan art club unravelled in 2018 and were the subject of the Netflix series “Inventing Anna”
Collection of Salvator Mundi Museum in Brooklyn confirmed as safe after break-in
The small storefront institution, devoted to objects and ephemera related to the most expensive painting ever sold, will reopen soon
Who should be able to profit from art criminals’ stories?
Television series linked to convicted fraudsters such as Inigo Philbrick and Anna Delvey raise ethical and legal questions
$1.2m Picasso drawing purchased with allegedly misappropriated funds recovered by US officials
The work on paper, purchased at Christie’s New York in 2014, was allegedly paid for with money embezzled from Malaysia’s 1MDB sovereign investment fund
Former New Orleans police officer indicted for allegedly orchestrating ill-fated art insurance scam
Christian Claus faces decades in prison for faking an art heist that would have netted a co-conspirator a $128,500 insurance payout
Operators of New York auction house charged with illegal sales of ivory and rhino horn artefacts
The Manhattan District Attorney's Office has charged the owners of Merces Gallery with selling prohibited animal products online
Former Vatican employee arrested for allegedly trying to sell Bernini manuscript
The 18-page document had previously disappeared from the Holy See's official archive
Alleged ringleader of Canada’s ‘biggest art fraud’ pleads guilty
David Voss reportedly led a forgery operation that created more than 1,500 fake Norval Morrisseau works over 23 years
Douglas Chrismas, founder of Los Angeles’s Ace Gallery, found guilty of embezzlement
The longtime California art dealer is facing up to 15 years in prison
‘We’ve got our man’ says British Museum chair as BBC programme digs deep into thefts
George Osborne’s comments were made on Thief at the British Museum, which has been released both as a one-off television show and a radio series
Officials in New York return antiquities worth $14m to Pakistan
Some of the 133 objects being repatriated are associated with the antiquities smugglers Subhash Kapoor and Richard Beale
British Museum recovers a further 268 stolen objects
The institution’s chair George Osborne has described the total number of items returned as a result that “few expected”, though more than 800 remain missing
Theft of Bronze Age gold artefacts from UK museum sparks fresh concerns about lack of government investment in sector
A bracelet and torc dating back thousands of years were taken from Cambridgeshire’s Ely Museum last week, shining a light on underfunding and its potential impact on security
Painting stolen from Chatsworth House 45 years ago discovered at auction
The oil on wood painting by Eramus Quelliness II was taken in a raid in 1979, though the thieves left behind much more valuable works
Stolen Italian landscape returned to Oxford's Christ Church Picture Gallery from Romania
Police are appealing for information about two other paintings stolen in the same 2020 burglary
Art fraudster Inigo Philbrick’s glamorous rise and dramatic fall to become television series
A production company working with HBO has optioned a memoir by Philbrick’s former friend and business partner Orlando Whitfield
Man who sold 145 fraudulent Peter Max paintings sentenced to 14 months in prison
More than 40 people bought what they thought were original paintings by Max, but were in fact prints to which the seller had added paint and signatures
The Week in Art podcast | Inigo Philbrick and art world fraud, Hong Kong’s new security law, a Maharaja’s sword
Is a return for the disgraced art dealer that unthinkable? Plus, how Article 23 might impact the art sector, and a closer look at a royal weapon coming on show in London
Art forger who duped collectors with fake Renaissance woodblock prints sentenced to more than four years in prison
Earl Marshawn Washington had pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and mail fraud this past summer
British Museum’s legal action over thefts is ‘locking the stable door after the horse has bolted’, experts say
The museum's former acting head of the Greece and Rome department, Peter Higgs, is facing legal action after being accused of stealing up to 2,000 objects
The Van Gogh painting that was stolen—and recovered in an Ikea bag—goes on show
Research reveals that the artist began the work as a winter scene and transformed it into a spring landscape
No confidence vote against Italian junior culture minister postponed
Vittorio Sgarbi is being investigated for allegedly laundering an Old Master painting
Italian politicians call on government to sack minister involved in art theft case
Vittorio Sgarbi has been accused of laundering a stolen 17th-century painting attributed to Rutilio Manetti
Caught red-handed: climate activist pleads guilty to defacing Degas exhibit at National Gallery of Art
Joanna Smith faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison and up to a $250,000 fine
Review into British Museum thefts calls for fundamental reforms
The Independent Collection Security Review urges the museum to take urgent action, including fully recording the collection and tough management changes
Richly detailed crime podcast captures with verve the ‘grubby underbelly’ of the art and antiquities trade
The Professor: Hunting for the Mafia's Missing Masterpiece follows English antiquities and ancient coins dealer William Veres as he attempts to solve the theft of a work by Caravaggio
Dealer and furniture expert to go on trial as part of longstanding investigation into forged French furniture
The trial is expected to offer unprecedented insights into the inner workings of the antique furniture market that once took pride of place at Paris's Biennale des Antiquaires
Former Art Institute of Chicago payroll manager gets three years in prison for embezzling more than $2m
Michael Maurello is also expected to pay back what he he stole from the museum
Antiquities trafficking charges upheld against former Louvre director Jean-Luc Martinez
French high court rejects Martinez's appeal but drops charges against curator Jean-François Charnier in Egyptian antiquities investigation
British Museum releases further details of independent review into thefts
The review team will now liaise with the police for the criminal investigation