Recs if you like Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art...

Nonfiction books about real cases of art theft, forgery, looting, and disappearance. Done either by individuals, by organizations, or by entire countries (cough cough Britain).

Non-fiction books related to the humanities. Think: arts, language, culture and what we do with it. Mix of essays, memoirs, literary criticism, histories, and more.

“Medicine, law, business, engineering, these are all noble pursuits, and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.”

art heists, forging, provenance, art crimes galore!

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