In late January, 500 federal agents swooped down on art collections in southern California with warrants. The alleged crimes? The possession of smuggled art objects, looted mostly from Asian and Native American sites. Thomas Hoving, a former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (and a keen ...

Thomas Hoving was the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York for 10 years. An international authority on art fraud, he’s the author of False Impressions: The Hunt for Big-Time Art Fakes. He’s written over a dozen art history books on everything ...

Kurt discusses fraud novelists with Simon Dumenco and forged paintings with Thomas Hoving, former director of the Metropolitan Museum. Hoving was the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York for 10 years. An international authority on art fraud, he's the author ...