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A raconteur's tour of fine-art fakery
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FALSE IMPRESSIONS
The Hunt for Big-Time Art Fakes
By Thomas Hoving. Simon & Schuster. 366 pp. Illustrated. $26.
Art forgeries fascinate -- to the extent that there has been a
rash of exhibitions of them, held in very proper museums, and
numerous books that capitalize on what is, after all, a crime. The
latest of these is "False Impressions: The Hunt for Big-Time Art
Fakes" by Thomas Hoving, who has created some false impressions
himself. In an earlier book on his shenanigans as director of New
York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Making the Mummies Dance," Hoving
'fessed up to fibbing to his ...
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