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From award-winning musician Kevin Hearn comes the soundtrack to the 2020 documentary There Are No Fakes, a journey into the largest art fraud scam in Canadian history. Musician Kevin Hearn of the Barenaked Ladies buys a painting, “Spirit Energy of Mother Earth,” attributed to Norval Morrisseau, the Ojibway painter widely recognized to be the world’s first Indigenous art star. When Hearn develops doubts about the painting’s authenticity, he finds himself in the middle of a legal feud between two warring factions of white people, each claiming to be the true defenders of Morrisseau’s legacy.
From award-winning musician Kevin Hearn comes the soundtrack to the 2020 documentary There Are No Fakes, a journey into the largest art fraud scam in Canadian history. Musician Kevin Hearn of the Barenaked Ladies buys a painting, “Spirit Energy of Mother Earth,” attributed to Norval Morrisseau, the Ojibway painter widely recognized to be the world’s first Indigenous art star. When Hearn develops doubts about the painting’s authenticity, he finds himself in the middle of a legal feud between two warring factions of white people, each claiming to be the true defenders of Morrisseau’s legacy.