Artist Guadalupe Maravilla, having just completed the installation of his Venice Biennale sculptures addressing racialized control and migrant trauma, experienced an alleged profiling incident with Venetian police, profoundly echoing the global systemic issues central to his healing practice.
The $14 million collection of 657 ancient Indian antiquities, including a rare inscribed Bronze Avalokiteshvara statue, was successfully repatriated following investigations into infamous traffickers Subhash Kapoor and Nancy Weiner.
Scottish police and Glasgow Museums have belatedly confirmed the theft of the Lipton Cup from the Riverside Museum on October 22-23, leading to fears the 18-carat gold yachting trophy may have been melted down.
The father-daughter operatives behind the extensive scheme to peddle forged artworks, meticulously crafted in Poland and featuring fraudulent provenance, have now pleaded guilty to charges stemming from their sophisticated fraud against prominent New York City art institutions.
Having orchestrated an international forgery ring involving hundreds of meticulously crafted imitations spanning artists from Andrew Wyeth to Fritz Scholder, the father-daughter team now faces federal charges and millions in restitution for defrauding the art market.
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