Fancy Galleries, Fake Art (Rebroadcast)

Reveal

The Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX

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4.7 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

The story of how two well-respected New York art galleries sold more than $80 million in fake art, and why almost no one ever was punished by authorities.

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0:00.0	From the Center for Investigative Reporting in PRX, this is Reveal.
0:06.5	I'm Al Letton.
0:08.3	John Howard lives in an impressive home.
0:11.4	A man had in brownstone, four stories high, covered in green vines.
0:15.4	I literally walked into this house and I walked over here and I said, oh, I'll do it.
0:20.7	I'll buy it.
0:21.7	I didn't even go upstairs.
0:22.7	It's not the house that we're here to see so much as what's in it.
0:26.2	John's an art collector.
0:27.7	And notice the art right away.
0:30.1	You have art in all their rooms in this house?
0:32.2	Pretty much.
0:33.4	John's talking to a reporter, Gicelli Rigatow.
0:36.1	She's here to see one painting in particular, one that hasn't hung in John's house for years.
0:42.4	So it's all wrapped in brown paper.
0:44.3	Did you wrap it yourself?
0:45.6	I did not.
0:47.7	And it's all tied up very neatly with cord, which I'm now going to cut.
0:52.7	It has a very prestigious signature, Willem Dekooni.
0:56.2	He's a famous Dutch American painter known for his abstract expressionist work.
1:00.2	So I probably even seen this in, I don't know, something between five and ten years.
1:05.7	And there it is.
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