Forgery, LeRoy, Mozart

Studio 360 | Jan 11, 2011

Kurt Andersen and editor Simon Dumenco compare stories of being fooled by "JT Leroy" -- a novelistic fraud perpetrated by several people. We'll hear from an art forger in England who did time for his crimes, and expert Thomas Hoving weighs in on why museum vaults are full of bad forgeries.

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