Vietnam, with its cheap labor and lax copyright laws, is a counterfeiter's dream. Books are sold hot off the photocopier and Hollywood's latest blockbusters can be had on DVD's for about a dollar. But it is in art forgery that Vietnam excels. With a stable of neoclassically trained art students, who spend years learning to copy the masters, art connoisseurs say that, in terms of quality, Hanoi has become the world capital for fake art. From the Renaissance to the Impressionists, you'll find some of the best forgeries that (very little) money can buy. Vietnamese students are so good at copying because of their education. Contemporary painting was introduced in Vietnam in the 1920s, when a friend of Matisse opened the Ecole des Beaux-Arts d'Indochine in Hanoi. But in all that time, the curriculum has evolved very little. Students today study art much as the Europeans did in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The emphasis on technique makes Vietnamese students ideal copiers. They are masters at perspective, understanding light and dark, and applying color.