Forgers, Thieves and Fumblers: Recent Art News Roundup Corrals Juicier Bits

The juiciest art-related headlines are about everything but art: this week professional conservators shame amateur art restoration in the Art Newspaper in the wake of the “Beast Jesus ” phenomenon, Vanity Fair lavished thousands of words on Wolfgang Beltracchi, a romatic German art forger, and the NY Times reported on an important theft from the Kunsthal Museum in Rotterdam.