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Never forget David Bowie masterminded "the biggest art hoax in history"

7 mins | Mar 20, 2019

Noah Carney, writing in Salon reminds us how David Bowie and novelist William Boyd masterminded "the biggest art hoax in history" and how the art world fell for it.

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