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Fancy Galleries, Fake Art
Category: News & Politics
Duration: 00:50:33
Publish Date: 2025-12-20 05:00:00
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In the mid-’90s, two high-end New York art galleries began selling one fake painting after another – works in the style of Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, Mark Rothko and others. It was the largest art fraud in modern U.S. history, totaling more than $80 million. Our first story looks at how it happened and why almost no one ever was punished by authorities. 


Our second story revisits an investigation into a painting looted by the Nazis during World War II. More than half a century later, a journalist helped track it down through the Panama Papers. 


This is an update of an episode that originally aired in January 2020. 

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