There Are No Fakes

Norval Morrisseau was the first Indigenous Canadian artist to be taken seriously in the art world By the turn of this century his work commanded tens of thousands of dollars So when Barenaked Ladies keyboardist Kevin Hearn learned his prized painting was a forgery he sued But as Jamie Kastners doc reveals there was a cottage industry in fake Morrisseaus an industry that flourished unchecked for years feeding on greed exploitation racism and contempt