Anti-fascist graffiti, anti-anti-fascist graffiti, a subway takeover, radioactive art soup, and more this week in art crime

A man who faces the death penalty for Nazi art-looting has to prove he forged the Vermeer in question by painting a new one live in jail, and much more

Art is people, street art is copyrighted, Italy is full of American tourists running amok and vandals are vandalizing Banksys. What's an art lover to do?

In the same week that a 14 year old boy faces jail time for taking lewd photos of himself with a Jesus statue, a 9 foot-tall giant-cocked red devil statue appears in Vancouver. And much more, This Week in Art Crime

"Kill Frats" appears on UC Berkeley campus; "Victory" and "Revolt" appear on a St. Louis Police Car; Blood appears on a Jeff Koons retrospective; and police claim that child pornography appeared in a Melbourne museum.

An artist's work is stolen as soon as it hits NYC streets; A man steals $500,000 in prize money from a famous jazz musician; A Palestinian artist is not allowed to leave Ramallah to exhibit his work

Graffiti Homer Simpson appears on the walls of the MFA in Boston; A pot activist claims the white flags atop the Brooklyn Bridge were to be replaced with a hemp leaf banner; A museum in Jizhou, China's entire collection is forgeries

An art thief steals for the love of art; a museum cashier gets a harsh sentence from an art-loving judge; half of all art in circulation is forged

A vigilante white-washes a famous piece of street art; A professor is ejected for crowd-surfing at a classical recital; ARCA (the Association for Research into Crimes against Art) held its annual Art Crime conference in Central Italy

A geriatric Australian man tags a police station and flees on a toy scooter; A photographer takes blurry images of CIA black sites