Thomas Hoving on Fakes
Kurt discusses fraud novelists with Simon Dumenco and forged paintings with Thomas Hoving, former director of the Metropolitan Museum. 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, Master Pieces: The Curator’s Game.
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