Disinformation
While trying to clean up the overflowing bookcase down in my office (that never-empty "books to be read" shelf), I stumbled across Disinformation's 50 Things You're Not Supposed To Know. The Disinformation web site is one of those one-stop shopping clearinghouses for all sorts of information about the strange, the odd, the weird, and the conspiracy driven. In short, one of my favorite places.
The 50 Things You're Not Supposed To Know book is CD-sized and should be in the door pocket of everyone's car because each of the entries can be devoured in about five minutes -- that space of time which you always have at some point while out driving. I just thumbed it open to the entry about the prevalence of art forgeries in most of our world-class museums. Their source for this factoid is Thomas Hoving's False Impressions: The Hunt for Big-Time Art Fakes, a book which I think I've read. (In fact, I found it on the shelves downstairs in hardback so I must have -- not that I can remember any of it.)
"What few art professionals seem to want to admit is that the art world we are living in today is a new, highly active, unprincipled one of art fakery." (Hoving)