Making Fake Baskets

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Alfredo was working at a gallery in new york city. A woman he knew had a fling with baskiat, and some time later, she came over to alfredos with some original baskiat drawings rolled up in a tube. Tisn't embarrassing say, i was not interested in making art work until after i started making for drinks. You have to know exactly what the real ones look like to make fake ones. And you have to be in the presence of the real ones.

Art crime is booming and Jean-Michel Basquiat’s paintings (or at least some very realistic forgeries) are the loot du jour. Reporter Brett Sokol and a guy who used to forge Basquiats explain.

This episode was produced by Avishay Artsy, fact-checked by Matt Collette, engineered by Paul Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram, who also edited.

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