Art Noir: True Crime in the Arts

     


Banksy Art Worth Over £220,000 Seized in Proceeds of Crime Investigation

Frida Kahlo’s Husband May Have Helped Her Die, Reveals Diego Rivera’s Grandson


Largest Ever! Indigenous art forgery ring smashed in Canada; More than 1,000 paintings seized after group allegedly sold fakes by pioneering artist Norval Morrisseau


Protest Too Much? Joan Mitchell Foundation Issues Cease and Desist to Louis Vuitton Over Use of Paintings in Handbag Ads; Appear to be taken during exhibition that paired Mitchell’s work with Monet; Exhibition appeared at none other than the Fondation Louis Vuitton, a private museum

Palm Beach art dealer pleads guilty. Daniel Elie Bouaziz was accused of selling fake works by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Jean-Michel Basquiat


Princessehof Ceramics Museum in Leeuwarden, Netherlands: Suspicious Burglary as 11 High Value Items Stolen During Daring Heist


How Italy protected its art from the Nazis


Death of Vatican cleric puts his lauded but mysterious art collection under new scrutiny; Canon Monsignor Michele Basso was investigated for fraud in 2000 after allegedly trying to sell fake works

Guilty as Charged! Ukrainian man goes on trial in France over theft of £1.3m painting found in Kyiv; Paul Signac’s Le Port de La Rochelle was lifted from a museum in 2018 and found a year later by Kviv police in an unconnected murder raid

Oops! A Swiss Museum Has Lost Two Old Masters Paintings That It Sent for Cleaning

A Spanish Collector Is on Trial for Forging Artworks by Chillida, Lichtenstein, and Munch—Then Consigning Them to Auction Houses


Three gang members admit roles in €113m Dresden jewel heist; One defendant says he and unnamed accomplice broke into the Green Vault and took valuables in November 2019


Brazilian Collector Sues Detroit Museum to Obtain Van Gogh Painting
... Museum Seeks Dismissal of Lawsuit


Sexy Jesus! Italian police widen fraud investigation after seizing Rubens painting from Genoa exhibition; Carabinieri accuse four people of downgrading and illegally exporting the Old Master work



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