The Forger Who Made the Experts Beg Him to Keep Going

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The Forger Who Made the Experts Beg Him to Keep Going

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Han van Meegeren sold a fake Vermeer to a Nazi war criminal, got arrested for collaboration after the war, and then had to paint another forgery in prison just to prove he was a liar — and the art world has never quite recovered from the embarrassment. This episode is about what happens when a con exposes not just one man's greed, but the entire system of connoisseurship as a performance of confidence over competence. It's also, uncomfortably, a story about how much we need the forgery to be real. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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