Celebrating fakes is moronic ... it’s real art that matters
Dulwich picture gallery’s flirtation with fakery is neither clever nor funny. It’s a betrayal of the museum’s duty to preserve and present artGallery challenges art lovers to spot the fake Fakes are fun. Fakes are cool. This week, Dulwich picture gallery launched a conceptual art project in which a replica made in China is concealed among its “real” paintings. Can visitors spot the fake? The intervention, said the gallery’s director, “will provoke a new way of looking at our collec
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