It’s a complicated but fascinating story that touches on art forgery, appropriation of voice, cultural genocide and even murder. When he loaned it to the Art Gallery of Ontario for a show, a curator there told him it was a fake. From here, Kastner leads us down a rabbit hole of art experts, lawyers, collectors and dealers, some of them shady, others downright dreadful. Collector Joe Otavnik isn’t having it; one of his interview comments became the film’s title, There Are No Fakes. But he also owns 150 Morrisseau paintings that he says are worth $2.5 million.

Source: National Post June 12, 2019 19:30 UTC