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  • Some of My Favorite Art Books

    Some of My Favorite Art Books

    Here are fifteen entertaining, informative, and highly readable art-related books that I have personally read and loved.

  • Art Crimes Awareness: Ebay and the Modern Forger

    The Monuments Men Foundation for Art the Preservation of Art’s facebook page, which by the way is one of the best resources out there for information about cultural heritage advocacy, recently linked to this article from The Daily Beast about art forgery on eBay. My first reaction was that anyone who thinks they’re going to buy a Picasso on eBay…

  • B.A Shapiro’s “The Art Forger: A Novel” – a personal reaction

    B.A Shapiro’s “The Art Forger: A Novel” – a personal reaction

    My reaction to B.A. Shapiro’s The Art Forger, a novel about a fictional young art forger and the real-life Isabella Stewart Gardner heist of 1990.

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