Despite some concerns of a flagging market, November’s art week had a relatively strong start – with several marquee pieces ...

At one point in Frank Wedekind’s play The Marquis of Keith, written in 1901 and set in 1899, the eponymous swindler describes Munich as ‘an Arcadia and at the same time a Babylon’.

Italian authorities have cracked a network of art forgers who made and sold fake works by Warhol, Banksy, Picasso and others.

From 1910, in his seminal art theory book, On the Spiritual in Art, Wassily Kandinsky, the Russian painter who was one of the ...

Italian authorities say forgers tried to sell fake Picasso, Modiglianis and others with help of complicit auction houses.