The fbi sapined the museum for all its internal records concerning these basceots, long before the show even opened. What happens after they're ceazed? Ae? The board of directors of the muse met on the tuesday after that friday, june 20 fourth raid, and they decided to dismiss the director, erndgraft, from his position. This still raises a lot of questions. Why did it take fbi agents rating the museum for the board to finally really do something here?
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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