With its longer forms of storytelling, the podcast is sufficiently supple to investigate the labyrinthine qualities of art forgery, the peculiar celebrity of the art forger, and the modern obsession with authenticity.

As a student of the art forger, I’ve listened to dozens of podcasts about art forgery. Here are five of the best.

ABC and CBC

Forged explores the forging of Canadian Indigenous artist Norval Morrisseau’s paintings, a scam that may be the world’s largest art fraud.

Over the six-part series, host Adrian Stimson brings an expert eye and a heavy heart to the narrative which travels from Canada to Australia, connecting forgeries of Morrisseau’s work to forgeries of Australian Indigenous artist Clifford Possum.

The true crime podcast genre does not perfectly align with art forgery, which is often conceived to be victimless, its moral harms........

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