In this episode, we continue the story of the Knoedler Gallery as the fourteen year long forgery ring that made the gallery millions began to crumble. We unveil the masterminds behind the fakes, including a man who delivered caviar to Sotheby's in an old ambulance and a master Chinese forger who could easily replicate Rothko's and Diebenkorns. We discuss the alarming red flags that gallery girl boss Ann Freedman somehow overlooked, a millionaire Gucci alum, and misspelled Pollock signatures.

“Spectacle is the sun that never sets over the empire of modern passivity.” - The Society of the Spectacle, Guy Debord

The Devil Wears Rothko: Inside the Art Scandal that Rocked the World by Barry Avrich

Made You Look: A True Story About Fake Art. Directed by Barry Avrich, Melbar Entertainment Group, 2020.

https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/3047

https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/wallach-division/art-architecture-collection/catalogue-raisonne

https://anderson.stanford.edu/collection/ocean-park-60-by-richard-diebenkorn/

The Knoedler Gallery Fraud Part II: Elegy to Authenticity

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