Following decades of deconstruction revealing the elusive and always nuanced character of truth and authenticity; documentary, biography and other non-fiction traditions have returned with a vengeance--witness the advent and unexpected longevity of Reality-TV. It may be that we have to accept the limitations of representation and make do with tropes of the real. Goya gave us the exposé, Robert Flaherty gave us Nanook, Hollywood gave us the close-up, and Jackson Pollock gave us his body. One might argue that artists have always been in the business of truth-telling. What does real look like today?