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Fine Art

Arts Crime

The Forger's Story

Searching for (and easily finding) Mark Augustus Landis, the man behind the “longest, strangest forgery spree the American art world has known.”

John Gapper The Financial Times Jan 2011 15min Permalink

Arts

The Last Wife

A profile of the late artist and author Norris Church Mailer, who stayed with her husband Norman despite his notorious philandering.

Alex Witchel New York Times Apr 2010 Permalink

Arts

Crimes of the Art?

What happens when a decades old video, featuring the artist Larry Rivers’ prepubescent daughters bare-chested, is claimed both as child pornography and as an important part of the archive of a major American painter.

Michael Shnayerson Vanity Fair Dec 2010 25min Permalink

Arts

How Annie Got Shot

If Annie Leibovitz sold her work through the traditional channels of the art world, she would have amassed a small fortune. But at the tail end of a career that has snubbed art galleries and collectors, she is destitute.

John Gapper The Financial Times Oct 2010 15min Permalink

Arts Crime

A 20th-Century Master Scam

How a London con man turned a struggling painter into a master forger, sold more than 200 fakes, and exposed the art industry as its own worst enemy.

Peter Landesman New York Times Magazine Jul 1999 30min Permalink

Arts Crime

Stealing Mona Lisa

Was the 1911 theft of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre actually a smokescreen to obscure an even more audacious art crime?

Dorothy Hoobler, Thomas Hoobler Vanity Fair May 2009 25min Permalink

Arts Crime

The Mark of a Masterpiece

The man who keeps finding famous fingerprints on uncelebrated works of art.

David Grann New Yorker Apr 2011 1h5min Permalink

Arts

The Disappearance of Ford Beckman

How a celebrated American artist was forced to trade his multimillion-dollar collection for a job selling donuts.

Michael Paul Mason The Believer Nov 2009 15min Permalink

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