00:00He knew right where to hit us, our soft spot, art and money.
00:06Yes, my name's Mark Lanois. My recently deceased sister left in a while.
00:11Oh my, is that an early form of color printing?
00:14I'd like you to show me where you would think of putting it.
00:22The Sotheby's label would have said,
00:24Rack Chalk, Brown Wash, Red Chalk.
00:28I just use colored pencils because I can't tell.
00:32Who's that?
00:33Mark Lanois.
00:34Yeah, Mark Lanois.
00:36I've been following Lanois for four years now.
00:38I looked this one up and it showed up in a press release
00:41at the St. Louis University Museum of Art.
00:43And then I found the same one in three more museums.
00:46He's been doing it over 30 years.
00:48And I've found 46 museums in 20 states
00:51with more than 100 pieces that he's offered up to these institutions.
00:55But I just keep building my taste.
00:57He messed with the wrong registrar.
01:03What's so strange about Lanois is that he's not in it for the money.
01:07He likes to do museum professionals.
01:09He likes to see the stuff on display.
01:11There's kind of a performance art quality to the act.
01:19The art world's a very strange place.
01:22Matt Leninger has been the only person
01:23that has pursued this from the beginning.
01:25I just became obsessed with it,
01:26just like he is obsessed with making these paintings.
01:31What do you know of Matthew Leninger?
01:34I don't even know what he looks like.
01:35Do you realize he's been keeping tabs on you?
01:37Oh, yeah, I know all that.
01:39This is in six or seven museums.
01:41But they look so good and so real.
01:47Do you have any idea why at this point
01:49you haven't been prosecuted?
01:50Because I didn't do anything wrong or illegal.
01:55I decided to be a philanthropist.
02:07Who's that guy?
02:08Mark Landis.
02:09Who?
02:10Mark Landis.
02:11Yeah, it's Mark Landis.
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