#theforgersspell

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THE FORGER'S SPELL...by Edward Dolnick type of read: ✈️⛱️ Dolnick examines how a second-rate Dutch painter managed to fool the experts and the Nazis into believing his forgeries were authentic Vermeers because ultimately we "see" what we want to believe. Some of the more staggering chapters were about life under Nazi occupation in the Netherlands during World War II - not so much that anything we learned was new but more of the reminder of the banality of evil and the echoes today. #theforgersspell #edwarddolnick https://www.instagram.com/p/B1AN8q-Bhuz/?igshid=1dxn9eozowoib

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this footnote courtesy of Edward Dolnick’s THE FORGER’S SPELL is giving me echoes of Natalie Portman's "all male directors" classic #smashthepatriarchy #edwarddolnick #theforgersspell https://www.instagram.com/p/B0JmkhphLw_/?igshid=1d5y0duqxkzkt