Investigators are looking into whether 25 jean michel baskia paintings that were on display at the orlanda museum of art and insured at more than 82 million dollars, were forged. The fbi agents literally took them down off the walls of the gallery they were hanging in, and hauled them away, back to presumably a storage warehouse. There is a mania for anything associated with boskiat - there's just a huge clamouring for all things boskiot. And maybe this kind of explains why someone might want a fake abascet. If you were an art forger and you were trying to forge some art work that you could sell for a lot of money, basq
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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