Inside view of art crime at the Met from the person tasked with preventing it

Strange story of a fake artefact and the people who needed it to be real

“Enclosed were photos of two Fijian iguanas, preserve in alcohol”

“I am the Indiana Jones of insects”

Is it real, is it fake, is it stolen, and where IS it? A vanishing painting and an interesting story.

A female Dutch Golden Age painter, a 1950s art forgery and theft, what I want in a novel.

A new biography of the now-infamous art dealer, Hildebrand Gurlitt

A group of book scholars evaluate the forgery that fooled them all

Tiny Japanese sculptures are silent witness to an art florescence then catastrophe for Jewish families under Nazism.

Wine crime. It’s just like art crime: dark and fascinating.

A beautiful collection of vignettes about the meanings of material things from New Zealand’s past.

The tense and fascinating history of the collection of human remains at American museums.