THE WEEKLY REVEAL

Hello! In this issue:

• How two well-respected New York art galleries sold more than $80 million in fake art – and why almost no one ever was punished.
• Traveling? We’ve got road trip listens.

THIS WEEK’S PODCAST

Fancy Galleries, Fake Art

This week on Reveal: how two New York art galleries got away with the largest art fraud in modern U.S. history.

In the mid-’90s, two high-end galleries began selling one fake painting after another – works in the style of Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, Mark Rothko and others – totaling more than $80 million. Our first story looks at how it happened and why almost no one ever was punished by authorities.

Our second story revisits an investigation into a painting looted by the Nazis during World War II. More than half a century later, a journalist helped track it down through the Panama Papers.

OUR RECOMMENDATIONS

Road Trip Listens from Reveal

We’ve gathered up some of our favorite shows for your travels. Click the link from your favorite podcast app to go right to the episode. 

One-hour trip

Gaza: A War of Weapons and Words: The loss of civilian life in Gaza and Israel has sparked outrage and protest, but a group of grieving parents continues quietly working for peace.
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A Reckoning at Amazon: Everything you’ve heard in the last few years about Amazon’s dangerous quest for speed started with our groundbreaking reporting.

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America Goes Psychedelic, Again: Psychedelic drugs have been illegal for 50 years, but they’re trickling back into the mainstream because they show promise in helping treat post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental health challenges. We explore the latest.

Two-hour trip

Buried Secrets (two-part series): After decades of stripping away Native American identity from its students, a Catholic boarding school seeks to help the community heal. This series was a partnership between Reveal and ICT, formerly known as Indian Country Today.
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Four hours+ trip

American Rehab (eight-part series): Reveal exposes how a treatment for drug addiction has turned tens of thousands of people into an unpaid shadow workforce. This reporting was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize.
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Mississippi Goddam (seven-part series): Billey Joe Johnson Jr. dreamed of graduating high school, going to college and one day playing pro football. On a cold December morning in 2008, that future was shattered. His story is a reckoning of justice in America.
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Reveal Presents: We drop all our longer series in our Reveal Presents feed. Subscribe there and you can find American Rehab, Mississippi Goddam and After Ayotzinapa all in one place.
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