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Michael O Sullivan and Ann Hornaday, The Washington Post
Feb. 25, 2021
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Netflix’s Made You Look: What is this documentary about?
Thu Feb 25, 2021 at 12:46pm ET
The documentary Made You Look gives an inside glance into an art world con. Pic credit: Netflix
Everybody loves a good scam, right? Recently arriving on Netflix is Made You Look: A True Story About Fake Art. This documentary is about “the largest art fraud in American history set in the super rich, super obsessed and super fast art world of New York.”
Who’s involved?
Made You Look: A True Story About Fake Art was initially released last year, however it just arrived on Netflix on February 23. It follows a multi-million dollar ($80.7 million) art scheme done under the false identity of Mr. X.
Made You Look: A True Story of Fake Art Review: The Most Spectacular Art Forgery Ever? Made You Look: A True Story of Fake Art Review: The Most Spectacular Art Forgery Ever?
Barry Avrich s documentary captures how art forgery isn t just a scandal but the uncanniest of magic tricks.
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Director: Barry Avrich
With: Ann Freedman, Dr. Jack Flam, Pei-Shen Qian, Carter Ratcliff, M.H. Miller, José Carlos Bergantiños Díaz, Charles Schmerler, Patricia Cohen, Michael Shnayerson, Domenico De Sole, Eleanore De Sole, Ronald Spencer, Dr. Jeffrey Taylor.
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There’s a spectacular contradiction at the heart of art forgery. Forgeries, which pretend to be paintings by timeless artists, hang in museums all over the world; there are more of them than anyone knows, all hiding in plain sight. When a case of forgery comes to light, it tends to be greeted with moral outrage. The act of imitating a famous artist’s work,
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In 1974’s “F for Fake,” the freewheeling Orson Welles documentary that used the exploits of noted art forger Elmyr de Hory as its thematic jumping-off point, the defiant de Hory asks, “Do you think I should confess? To what? Committing masterpieces?”
That mindset proves especially persuasive in the new Netflix documentary “Made You Look: A True Story About Fake Art,” a fascinating depiction of the various dealers, collectors and gallery owners who found themselves embroiled in the largest art fraud in American history.
At the center of the early-2000s scandal was Ann Freedman, the director of Manhattan’s once-prestigious Knoedler Gallery. Her fateful meeting with Glafira Rosales, a quiet woman who had access to a treasure trove of Abstract Expressionism purportedly by the likes of Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko, eventually would amount to an $80 million con.
New Documentaries on Netflix in February 2021
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes
At least February is the shortest month, hey?!
That said, at least the documentaries we’ve got coming are pretty good ones. Featuring true-crime, sports, art, and music, there should be something for everyone in February’s documentary drop.
Made You Look: A True Story about Fake Art (2020)
Runtime: 1hr 34 min
Landing sometime in February is
Made You Look: a compelling documentary movie about a modern-day heist that shook the art world to its core.
One of New York’s most prestigious galleries, Knoedler & Company, made millions selling previously-unseen works by art legends like Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Robert Motherwell. However, when the paintings turned out to be fakes, the world had questions to be answered. Features candid interviews with the gallery director, Ann Freedman, as well as her prestigious clients.