Seems like people in Canada have really latched onto the idea that creating fake Indigenous art is going to get them lots of money. Ultimately, as we’ve seen before and we’ll see again today, these fraudsters always get found out.

This week we’ve got a homegrown Canadian crime for you. One of the most famous photographs of Winston Churchill, shot by a Canadian photographer was stolen from an iconic hotel in Ottawa. But how? And where is it now?

Wow, yet another one from the FBI’s top 10 art crimes list! Here we’ve got a Dutch master’s self-portrait stolen during visiting hours at a gallery in New South Wales, Australia. It is extremely valuable which makes it not super surprising that they haven’t found it yet.

Strap in for a complicated story today of art fraud that spans years, different artists and countries and even involves an aspiring actor from Montreal. This one’s going to be a ride.

Here we go again, this week we’ve got another crime that’s on the FBI’s list of top 10 art crimes. This one’s a bit of a head-scratcher involving the Whitney family and the highest-paid commercial artist during the 1920s.

Unfortunately, there is a large market (or larger than you might think) for paintings made by Adolf Hitler. Selling these paintings is banned in large auction houses and websites but the market is thriving and some of the works, we’re now discovering, are forgeries.

Stonehenge is that huge circle of standing rocks out in the middle of a field in England, you know the one. It’s estimated that it was built around 5,000 years ago. How?? By whom?? And most importantly, why?

This crime is on the FBI's official Top Ten Art Crimes list, so it’s an important one. In 1995 violinist Erica Morini’s Stradivarius violin was stolen from her New York City apartment just days before her death. It is one of the most important instruments in the world and would be worth millions…if anyone could find it.

Not a crime in the true sense today but something interesting to discuss. With artists exploring more and more extreme methods of expressing their artistic intents and making a statement, where should we draw the line between acts of art and just destruction or crime? Or should we not be constraining art at all? Let’s talk about some examples.

This word, literally translated, means art confiscated from private collections, especially from Jewish collectors in Nazi Germany. Yup, we’re talking about Nazi art thefts, but not all of them because that would be way too much to cover (they did it a lot). We’re going to be talking about one specific person and his role in all this.

I had something else planned for this week but I really need to cover this breaking news. Police in Northern Ontario have arrested eight people in connection to art fraud, specifically fraud of a famous, iconic Canadian artist.

I promise this isn’t a clickbait title. There is a painting of the goddess Diana created in 1822 that was believed to have been destroyed at the end of World War 1. Is it possible that it’s been hanging in Madonna’s house?

This is a really mysterious story about a painting being found in the garbage. How did it get there in the first place? And how was it authenticated and finally sent back to its rightful owner? Read on, let’s find out.

I know this title sounds obvious, but it isn’t always (read: almost never) the case that people stealing art are actually doing it because they’re compelled by their love for that specific piece. This love is what lead Stéphane Breitwieser to become one of the world’s most consistent art thieves.

I think you’re going to be surprised when I show you this painting by Dutch old master Frans Hals which has been stolen not once, not twice, but three separate times.

The Art History Museum in Vienna, or the Kunsthistorisches Museum, is one of the most important art museums in the world and the largest one in Austria. However, as we now know, no matter the size or prestige of the museum it is not immune to robberies.

You’d think that the museum housing one of the most important art collections in South America would want to have a better security system but it seems like the Sao Paulo Museum of Art (MASP) made it pretty easy to make off with some treasures.

Activists have had the idea to target famous paintings, sculptures, and other works of art for decades. There are many famous examples of people trying to raise awareness for their causes by attacking artworks. Recently we’ve seen this same tactic being used around the world, let’s talk about it.

I’m sure there are a lot of da Vinci’s paintings that have been lost over the years but there is one notable work that people love to speculate about. Titled The Battle of Anghiari, could it still exist somewhere? Did it ever even get created? Let’s explore.

Today we’re not talking about a crime, strictly speaking, more that it’s always sad when artists decide to destroy their work, regardless of the reason. Let’s look into Monet’s reasons.