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Art

The Circuitous Road to Crime (Fiction)

By Jonathan Santlofer

August 17, 2021

I wasn’t always an art forger. I went to art school (an old-style academy), studied painting, drawing, color, even perspective and anatomy, and learned how to draw and paint just about anything. After school, I pursued an art career and was surprised by my success, even started to take it for granted—never a good idea.…

The Romanian Connection: The Kunsthal Rotterdam Heist

By Lance Charnes

December 28, 2017

PART I: THE HEIST At 3:20 a.m. on October 16, 2012, the Trigion Security control center dispatched two guards to investigate an alarm trip at the Kunsthal in Rotterdam’s Museumpark. While Trigion supplied onsite guards for the art museum’s visiting hours, after closing, the museum made do with visits by roving security patrols. By the…

An Artistic Debut: Reviewing SoHo Sins by Richard Vine

By David Cranmer

July 4, 2017

SoHo Sins by Richard Vine is an intriguing debut novel about the underworld of the New York art scene (now available in paperback!). Read David Cranmer's review of SoHo Sins by Richard Vine, and then make sure to sign in and comment below for a chance to win a paperback copy! “You can’t deal successfully…

The Fall of the House of Knoedler

By Lance Charnes

June 15, 2017

Knoedler & Company began in 1846 as the Manhattan outpost of the French printmaker Goupil et Cie. It was America’s first storefront art gallery; it predated the Metropolitan Museum of Art by 24 years. During the Gilded Age, Knoedler moved from peddling inexpensive prints to dealing Old Master artworks to the likes of Vanderbilt, Morgan,…

Operation Antiquity: From Thailand with Love

By Lance Charnes

March 30, 2017

A crowd gathered outside the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana, California, on the morning of January 24, 2008. They weren’t museum junkies; they were federal agents raiding the place. By the end of the day, 500 FBI, IRS, and Customs agents had hit the Bowers and 12 other targets, including the Los Angeles County Museum…

Gray Market: Crime and the Art Market by Riah Pryor

By Lance Charnes

February 9, 2017

Crime and the Art Market by Riah Pryor brings together the author’s direct experience from both fields to present an accessible, informative, and realistic overview of art crimes in today’s society. Art-related crime is a busy book genre these days. Most of these books are very specific—one case, one career, one theme—which isn’t necessarily a bad…

Van Gogh Goes to Italy: Oil and Cocaine Do Mix

By Lance Charnes

October 27, 2016

In December 2002, two burglars broke into the Vincent van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. They didn’t use helicopters or lasers or any of the stuff art thieves use in the movies; they climbed a fifteen-foot ladder to the roof and got into the second floor (European first floor), where the main display halls are. They…

Elementary, Rembrandt: Reviewing The Scientist and the Forger by Dr. Jehane Ragai

By Lance Charnes

July 7, 2016

The Scientist and the Forger by Dr. Jehane Ragai outlines the advanced forensic techniques being developed to help thwart art forgery. If you’ve watched CSI or any of the other TV forensic procedurals, you know that science has jumped into the crime-solving pool with both feet. Advances in DNA analysis, latent-print recovery, forensic botany, and…

Psycho Gets the Andy Warhol Treatment

By Crime HQ

May 5, 2016

What have you done, mother!? Is there a more iconic scene than the shower stabbing in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960)? Is there a more iconic art piece that Andy Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe silkscreen prints? Seems only natural to combine the two and make the ultimate icon! Well, that’s just what UncleGertrudes has done. Measuring 12”…

The ZINNG: Christ, Crime, and Cash

By Crime HQ

December 16, 2015

Aryan Art? A bizarre lawsuit has been filed against the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan. The New York Post reports that 33-year-old Justin Renel Joseph is suing The Met for their “offensive aesthetic whitewashing” in several paintings depicting Jesus Christ as pale-skinned with blond hair. Joseph claims that this “Aryan” Jesus caused him “personal…

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