Here’s How to Make Millions as an Art Forger
A very old (and very easy?) way to make a fortune
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Perhaps the biggest surprise in art historian Noah Charney’s new book, The Art of Forgery, isn’t how easy it is to fake an artwork—it’s how little people care when the fraud is uncovered.
When New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art realized that a renaissance cup by Benvenuto Cellini was in fact the work of a talented (and long-dead) forger, for instance, the response was “bemusement.”