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 ...

“Forgery”とは，文書や紙幣などを偽造する行為のこと。画家を目指す主人公がニセモノの絵画を制作し，嘘の物語をでっちあげて高く売り付けるという，いささかアンモラルなゲームだ。 しかし，いくら主人公に絵の才能があるとはいえ，美術館の専門家 ...

A painting in a Japanese corporate collection is at the center of a forgery storm as the latest in a string of uncovered fakes by notorious German scammer Wolfgang Beltracchi. For many years, gallery ...

WITH its longer forms of storytelling, the podcast is sufficiently supple to investigate the labyrinthine qualities of art forgery, the peculiar celebrity of the art forger, and the modern obsession ...