Season three is here, the studio has changed, and after a brief detour through Adelaide, Midsumma and the magic of Melbourne dinner theatre, we get into one of the wildest art scandals in modern history. This week on Framed, we’re diving into the collapse of New York’s legendary Knoedler Gallery — the elite institution that sold fake masterpieces to some of the richest collectors in the world. We unpack the forged Jackson Pollocks and Rothkos, the mysterious “Mr X” story and the question that still hangs over the whole mess: did Ann Freedman know? It’s an art world meltdown so huge it brought down a gallery that had been operating for 165 years.
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