Fakes, Frauds and Phonies
A fascinating and often amusing look at art crime!
Episodes
16 episodes since 2024
Keating and his ticking time bombs!
Tom Keating had a special surprise for the unwary buyers of his forgeries!
August 12, 2024
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5:51
The two Johns, Myatt and Drewe!
Clever deception, but not clever enough for Scotland Yard!
July 10, 2024
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23:46
Can you fool all the people, all the time? Maybe.
Hebborn, master forger, tried to fool all the people, all the time.. Did he succeed? Find out in this fascinating episode of Fakes, Frauds and Phonies.
June 26, 2024
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25:44
The Phony Count and His Fake Goya: An LAPD story!
A phony Hungarian count steals a painting from an old couple, and resurfaces years later. The Los Angeles Police save the day!
June 19, 2024
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12:31
de Hory, the king of Ibiza!
de Hory, the man who perpetually re-invented himself: he was the subject of a book by Clifford Irving (yes, the author of the fake Howard Hughes diaries) and a film by Orson Wells (one of his least interesting productions, a documentary titled ...
June 12, 2024
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11:01
Maskat and his medieval turkey...
The medieval frescoes looked amazingly fresh and new...mostly because they were fresh and new!
June 05, 2024
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9:08
van Meegeren, crook or traitor?
van Meegeren has to choose between selling a real Vermeer to Goering, and suffering the post-war consequences...or just admitting the he's a forger and get a slap on the wrist?
May 29, 2024
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8:00
van Meegeren bakes a batch of Vermeers!
van Meegeren creates "authentic" craquielures with a secret recipe!
May 22, 2024
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4:14
van Meegeren reduix...and in deep trouble!
Accused of selling a Dutch cultural treasure to Hermann Goering, how will van Meegeren avoid the hangman's noose?
May 15, 2024
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19:27
A Nazi, a forger and a contentious Vermeer!
How Han van Meegeren fooled the world's greatest expert on Vermeer, and pulled a fast one on Hermann Goering!
May 08, 2024
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7:36
The limits of scientific testing
Can an x-ray or a microscope attribute a painting to a specific artist?
May 01, 2024
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4:59
A Van Gogh from the 30's impacts a Canadian family!
A Van Gogh impacts a Canadian family. Is it authentic or one of Otto Wacker's fakes?Let's find out...
April 25, 2024
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7:13
Otto Wacker and the dead artist who just continues to paint and paint!
A trial for forgery in the 1930s impacts a Canadian family some 70 years later.
April 17, 2024
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5:31
A 500 Year Old Whodunit in Fakes, Frauds and Phonies
Was Michelangelo a bit of a rogue? Find out in this episode.
April 15, 2024
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5:36