Noah Charney

Noah Charney is a Salon arts columnist and professor specializing in art crime, and author of "The Art of Forgery" (Phaidon).

David Bowie

Never forget David Bowie masterminded "the biggest art hoax in history" Noah Charney

Steve Green; Museum of the Bible

Lessons from the Museum of the Bible's fake Dead Sea Scrolls: How not to buy looted antiquities Noah Charney

Banksy Girl With Balloon

Why Banksy's self-destructing "Girl With Balloon" is worth even more shredded Noah Charney

Vasari Corridor

Inside the Vasari Corridor, where Medici feet once trod Noah Charney

Damien Hirst and the specific thrills of the mockumentary Noah Charney

Saint Nicholas; Ded Moroz; Krampus

From "Soviet Santa" to red-faced devils: Choose your own Christmas adventure Noah Charney

Sultan Mehmed II by Gentile Bellini

Western art's debt to the Islamic world Noah Charney

Art Forgery

The art of the fake: Forgers are the art world's antiheroes Noah Charney

Allan Pinkerton and Abraham Lincoln

Lincoln's spy: How Pinkerton laid the foundation for the CIA and FBI Noah Charney

Eugène François Vidocq

The wild, made-for-TV story of criminology's first secret agent Noah Charney

The Louvre

Don't judge a building by its walls: Architecture is about space, and how it feels Noah Charney

Finding Cézanne in "Goodnight Moon" Noah Charney

Where our Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle theory of great art comes from Noah Charney

Hugh Hefner

Hugh Hefner, Playboy and the art history of naked ladies Noah Charney

The myth of the art thief: It's not a gentleman's crime Noah Charney

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