Special Guest: Thomas Hoving
Thomas Hoving was the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York for 10 years. An international authority on art fraud, he’s the author of False Impressions: The Hunt for Big-Time Art Fakes. He’s written over a dozen art history books on everything from King Tut to his latest, American Gothic: The Biography of Grant Wood’s American Masterpiece.
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