A decades-long art forgery scheme
smithsonianmag.com
smithsonianmag.com
Give it a watch! I find it exhilarating.
Is it just me that finds mentioning people's skin colour in everything a really bizarre aspect of US writing?
Because this aspect is important in Canadian history. Especially when…
>Hearn’s investigative team found that, for years, Lamont and his wife had helped oversee a group home for Indigenous youth. Dallas Thompson, the Anishinaabe man who knew a Morrisseau relative, said Lamont operated the home as a virtual factory for producing fake Morrisseau paintings. Under Lamont’s direction, youths and other Indigenous people in Thunder Bay were paid—or forced at threat of violence—to create Morrisseau look-alikes by the hundreds.
A person of any skin colour could have done what the forgers did with the same success. There's nothing about the skin colour of the forgers which made it better/worse/etc.
> The success of the fraud ring, he says, “illustrates the perpetuation of the problem with the relationship between Indigenous people and colonizers.”
To me, that just sounds like someone making statements to support their own prejudice(s).
Looking at the photo below that text fragment, people of the same skin colour were part of the investigation team which busted them.