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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Britain's leading modern art collector and its most famous gallery exchanged allegations about the fate of a messy bed, a pickled shark and other icons of the 1990s "Brit Art" movement.
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An American man who says he owns an  Andy Warhol self-portrait sued the artist&#39;s foundation, estate  and authentication board on Monday for refusing to validate his  silk-screen piece and defrauding art buyers.
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Unauthorised copies of Banksy's work were sold at inflated prices on eBay, it is claimed.
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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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A Manhattan art gallery owner has pled  guilty to fraud charges in an international art forgery scheme  that spanned 15 years, government officials said on Monday.
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A covert security review of some of the UK's top museums finds lapses that are putting treasures at risk of theft.
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JERUSALEM -- Four Israeli antiquities collectors and dealers were indicted yesterday on charges that they ran a sophisticated forgery ring that spanned the globe and produced a treasure trove of fake Bible-era artifacts, including some that were hailed as major archeological finds.
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RUTLAND, Vt. - A man who helped his friend fake a fall that had actually occurred during a botched burglary in another town could go to prison for it. Louis Stevens, 43, pleaded guilty Wednesday to fraud under a plea deal calling for up to 20 years in prison.
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Earlier this year, I interviewed Dutch security expert Ton Cremers on the future of museum theft. &quot;With today&#39;s technology, if someone wanted the Mona Lisa, or those Vermeers in the Frick, they would never try to sneak in,&quot; he predicted.
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A man charged in one of the largest identity theft scams in U.S. history pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy, wire fraud, and fraud in connection with identity documents Tuesday and could face up to 50 years in prison, according to a statement from U.S. Attorney David Kelley, of the Southern District of New York.
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A major fraud involving criminals preying on people from new EU states wanting work in the UK is uncovered by a BBC investigation.
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Information on individuals has been collected in a scam using e-greetings that appear to come from a secret admirer.
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Pieces of Britain's past, including a second-century silver ring and a 500-year-old Tudor trade weight, are among artifacts being peddled daily on the Internet to the alarm of experts at the British Museum.
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If the newly released 32-year-old National Guard memos regarding George W. Bush were written on a computer with Microsoft Word, as experts suspect, they&#39;re some of the most inept high-profile forgeries in modern history.
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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.