I am fascinated with con men and others who engage in fraud, including art forgery. In the art world (at least in today’s art world, which is driven in large part by commercial considerations), forgeries raise fundamental questions about the nature of art, and why we value it.
While I do not share the author’s view that “forgers are the foremost artists of our age,” Keats make some interesting and provocative points as he tell some fascinating tales from the art world.
Read reviews from the Guardian and the New York Review of Books.
I am looking forward to checking out this upcoming exhibition at the Springfield Museums, “Intent to Deceive.”