British forger fools US museum
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A sculpture at a Chicago museum is unmasked as a fake created by a forger based in Bolton.
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The New York Public Library's show of prints by the English satirist crosses the line between interesting artifact and still-exciting art.
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An Italian antiquities trafficker running a thriving business out of Switzerland duped some of the world's most famous auction houses and museums with illegally acquired artifacts, authorities said on Friday.
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A New York art dealer pleads guilty to selling forgeries by Renoir, Chagall, Modigliani and Gaugin.
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There's treasure on that there online car boot sale British Museum experts will monitor eBay antiquities sales and report illegal activity to the Met's Art and Antiques Unit in an arrangement announced today.â¦
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An image of 18th century economist Adam Smith features on a new twenty pound banknote that the Bank of England (BoE) hopes will slash fraud and counterfeits.
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Businessmen systematically forged and sold memorabilia, court is told
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An Italian antiquities trafficker running  a thriving business out of Switzerland duped some of the  world's most famous auction houses and museums with illegally  acquired artefacts, authorities said on Friday.
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An Andy Warhol painting that a man tried to consign to Christieâs auction house turned out to be listed as stolen.
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More overseas enterprise archaeology from an itinerant Fool.
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A gambling tycoon preempts controversy by purchasing a bronze looted by westerners in the 19th century
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A fraudster posing as chairman of Barclays tricked his own bank's credit card arm into issuing a new card before taking cash from his account, a Barclaycard source said on Thursday.
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A British bookmaker offered a one million pound ($2 million) reward on Monday to anyone who can prove that Scotland's legendary Loch Ness monster does actually exist.
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Hundreds of Paris Hilton albums are tampered with in the latest stunt by British "guerrilla artist" Banksy.
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Hundreds of biblical artefacts in museums all over the world could be fakes, it has emerged after Israeli investigators uncovered what they claim is a sophisticated forgery ring.
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It sounded too good to be true. Turns out it probably was. A long-sought trove of rare Beatles material that reportedly was found last month by a lucky British tourist remains lost, a leading Beatles expert says.
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One art lover in Sweden paid 1,000 times over the starting bid for a painting billed as the work of a student of Peter Paul Rubens after learning the Flemish baroque master may have painted it himself.