Virtual Film Series ~ Made You Look: The True Story About Fake Art
This year the Woodstock Vermont Film Series, presented by Billings Farm & Museum is entering a new era, using an online platform to stream our 15-film series. We look forward to bringing this format for unique, place-based storytelling to our community.
Tickets are sold per film, or purchase a series pass.
The film explores the case of the largest art fraud in American history that brought down an esteemed gallery and left a respected art dealer with egg on her face. The central figure of the $80-million caper is Ann Freedman, a former dealer at the late Knoedler Gallery of New York. Freedman and various implicated parties explain a decade-long con in which Glafira Rosales, a petty crook from Long Island, sold Knoedler a series of masterful forgeries by Chinese artist Pei-Shen Quan. Freedman marvels how Rosales trucked out one allegedly lost masterwork after another from contemporary artists like Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko. Her voice still sparkles with true awe at the paintings.
