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A German art gallery employee snuck in his own art in hopes of a breakthrough. Now the police are involved.  CBS News Source link

Employee Secretly Hangs His Own Art in German Museum, Spurring a Police Investigation  ARTnews Source link

Police Will Investigate Pro-Palestine Activists’ Defacement of Arthur Balfour Portrait at Cambridge  ARTnews Source link

Police Bust Counterfeit Banksy Ring—and More Art News  ARTnews Source link

Brian Walshe, 46, the husband of Ana Walshe, 39, who disappeared on New Year's Day after failing to catch a work flight to Washington D.C. is a convicted art swindler Brian Walshe, 46, the convicted art swindler husband of the 39-year-old missing mother of three has been charged with misleading police in their search for his wife Real estate executive Ana Walshe disappeared on New Year's ...

Last weekend, an artist space in Utica, New York, was ransacked by a group of vandals, all of whom were between the ages of 8 and 11. The incident took place early in the morning of August 28 at Sculpture Space, a residency program for sculptors founded 44 years ago. After breaking into the facility, the vandals destroyed artworks, overturned furniture, shattered glass, and ...

Police in Brazil found a major work by Tarsila do Amaral, one of the country’s most important modern artists, beneath a bed on Wednesday during an investigation into a group of stolen artworks. The do Amaral painting is said to be worth 300 million reias, or $59.1 million. It is one of 16 paintings that police said were pilfered during an operation that ultimately ...

Earlier this year, Latvian generative artist Ilja Borisovs had his bank accounts frozen and, several months later, Latvian police revealed that they are investigating him for suspected money laundering, the artist announced last week. Borisovs, who goes by the handle Shvembldr, became a popular NFT artist in 2021, selling mints of his generative art on NFT platforms such as Foundation, OpenSea, and Art Blocks. ...

A man has been arrested in connection with the investigation into anti-Semitic graffiti found on artist Brian Jungen’s Couch Monster sculpture in Toronto last week. Toronto’s police department said that, on July 13 at 6:15 a.m., a man was seen spray painting the graffiti at the front of the sculpture, an enormous 11,000-pound figure of an elephant constructed from discarded leather couches and cast ...

Over the course of my time posted up on the sidewalk outside of last night’s opening of “The Patriot,” a 200+ artist, 100 percent bonkers open-submission group show at the Lower East Side gallery O’Flaherty’s, I heard a couple variations on the same refrain: If the police showed up this fast, it must be a pretty good party. It wasn’t just one or two ...