Art Forgery Business and Our Quest for Authenticity
Despite the best efforts by art institutions and private owners to safeguard original artworks and prized collections, the art forgery business has been spawning constant top news flashes with massive art crime scandals in the art world. Earlier this year, the private Jacquemart André Museum in Paris was exhibiting the US-based private art collection —Alana […]
Swiss Freeports for Art Treasures & Tax Evasion
In 2015, in the wake of the news on the revised law on freeports, the global art market was shaken by the chronicles of Geneva’s bonded warehouses, a storage facility for the super-rich collectors at the center of tax evasion controversy. Thierry Ehrmann, the president of art market information specialist Artprice, said that Geneva’s freeport […]