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A former prominent Birmingham art gallery owner faces up to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty Thursday to wire fraud, federal officials said. Wendy Halsted Beard, 58, of Franklin, who owned ...
Vanblaere, 48, says she’s ready to leave the gallery she’s tended with loving care for the past 20 years. Closing her business in Birmingham’s Forest Park neighborhood will give Vanblaere ...
In an alleged fraud scheme unraveling in U.S. District Court, Beard, who took over Birmingham’s well-established Halsted Gallery from her late father, is charged with running a $1.6 million scam ...
Former Birmingham art dealer Wendy Halsted Beard bilked more than 40 people, many of them elderly, for years, defrauding them of millions of dollars in fine art photographs, federal prosecutors say.
The Birmingham Art Gallery is doing great business. In addition, by the way, to the numerous pictures and other works of art belonging to the town, owners of valuable treasures have liberally sent ...
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (BMAG) reopens this week after more than four and a half years. The city's cultural gem closed back in March 2020 for major renovations to its heating, electrics ...
Gerard Marti of Birmingham's Robert Kidd Gallery no sooner hit send Friday on an email about his gallery selling two sets of highly coveted silkscreen prints by actor Johnny Depp when the calls ...
An exhibition celebrating the art of weaving has opened at a Birmingham gallery. Thread the Loom, at the Ikon Gallery, sees ...
For years, Wendy Beard ran a lucrative Birmingham art gallery she inherited from her millionaire father. But along the way, the FBI says, she got greedy — so greedy that she scammed seniors by ...
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (BMAG) reopens this week after more than four and a half years. The city's cultural gem closed back in March 2020 for major renovations to its heating, ...