{"product_id":"art-crime-the-fight-against-looters-forgers-and-fraudsters-in-the-high-stakes-art-world-9781644211199","title":"Art \u0026 Crime: The Fight Against Looters, Forgers, and Fraudsters in the High-Stakes Art World","description":"\u003cb\u003eA thrilling, eye-popping look at true crime in the billion-dollar art world.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe art world is one of the most secretive of global businesses, and the list of its crimes runs long and deep. Today, with prices in the hundreds of millions for individual artworks, and billionaires' collections among the most conspicuous and liquid of their assets, crime is more rampant than ever in this largely unregulated universe. Increased prices and globalization have introduced new levels of fraud and malfeasance into the art world--everything from \"artnapping,\" in which an artwork is held hostage and only returned for a ransom, to forgery and tax fraud. However, the extent of the economic and cultural damage that results from criminality in the global art scene rarely comes to light. The stories of high-stakes, brazen art crimes told by art experts Stefan Koldehoff and Tobias Timm are by turns thrilling, disturbing, and unbelievable (the imagination for using art to commit crimes seems boundless). The authors also provide a well-founded analysis of what needs to change in the art market and at museums. \u003cbr\u003e From the authors of \u003ci\u003eFalse Pictures, Real Money \u003c\/i\u003e(about the Beltracchi art forgery case), \u003ci\u003eArt and Crime\u003c\/i\u003e includes a chapter on art owned by Donald Trump. It is a thoroughly researched, explosive, and highly topical book that uncovers the extraordinary and multifarious thefts of art and cultural objects around the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSTEFAN KOLDEHOFF, born in 1967, is culture editor at \u003ci\u003eDeutschlandfunk\u003c\/i\u003e in Cologne, and writes for \u003ci\u003eDie Zeit\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eart - Das Kunstmagazine\u003c\/i\u003e among other publications. In 2008 he received the Puk journalist prize for his investigative research. In 2012, he and Tobias Timm published \u003ci\u003eFalse Pictures, Real Money\u003c\/i\u003e on the Beltracchi case. The book was awarded the Prix Annette Giacometti and the Otto Brenner Prize. Galiani also published his books \u003ci\u003eThe Pictures Are Among Us: The Nazi-Looted Art Business and the Gurlitt Case\u003c\/i\u003e (2014) and \u003ci\u003eMe and Van Gogh: Pictures, Collectors and Their Adventurous Stories \u003c\/i\u003e(2015). TOBIAS TIMM, born in 1975 in Munich, studied urban ethnology, history, and cultural studies in Berlin and New York. He has written for \u003ci\u003eDie Zeit\u003c\/i\u003e's feature pages from Berlin on architecture, art, and crime. In 2012, he and Stefan Koldehoff published \u003ci\u003eFalse Pictures, Real Money\u003c\/i\u003e on the Beltracchi case. The book was awarded the Prix Annette Giacometti and the Otto Brenner Prize. TIMM and KOLDEHOFF were recently counted among the 100 most influential people in the art business by the national German magazine \u003ci\u003emonopol\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003ePAUL DAVID YOUNG's previous translations from German include \u003ci\u003eThe Art of C.G. Jung \u003c\/i\u003e(Norton, 2018) and, with Carl Weber, \u003ci\u003eHeiner M?ller: After Shakespeare\u003c\/i\u003e (PAJ, 2014).Young's 2019 play \u003ci\u003eAll My Fathers\u003c\/i\u003e, presented at La MaMa E.T.C. in New York, directedby Evan Yionoulis, was praised as \"hilarious\" by \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Seven Stories Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50861734920466,"sku":"9781644211199","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_710061ee-442d-4c0f-a24f-2eed6de9f8b5.jpg?v=1737604565","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/art-crime-the-fight-against-looters-forgers-and-fraudsters-in-the-high-stakes-art-world-9781644211199","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}