I suppose I did it because I wanted something to show for the thirty years longer than I had lived in my homeland that I had been here in America. Something that was properly appreciated, even if someone else got all the credit.
Liu Qingwu doesn t set out to commit a crime. He only wants to sell a painting something more substantial than the Impressionist knockoffs he flogs to tourists outside New York s Metropolitan Museum of Art. But the lucrative commission he receives from a Chelsea art dealer is more complicated than he initially realizes. Liu has been hired to create not...