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The Museu del Falso at the University of Salerno in Southern Italy showcases counterfeit artworks, including nearly perfect forgeries of Warhol, Mario Schifano, and other high-priced artists. The museum’s supplier is the Carabinieri, the country’s military police, who have collected more than 60,000 fakes in raids across the country over the last few years. From Smitsonian:

Images Museumfake-1 (Salvatore) Casillo, the museum’s director, is an author and sociologist who has spent 20 years studying counterfeits of all kinds. The museum’s mission is “to analyze the evolution of forgery, from technique to organization,” he says, “and to give visitors the opportunity to see firsthand how the counterfeiters carry out their deception.” Unlike the works that hang on its walls, the Museum of Fakes resembles no other. Located in the basement of a university building, it is both storeroom and gallery. Phony Grecian urns line shelves while some paintings are still packed in brown paper (they can’t be displayed until courts have dealt with the cases, which can take years). Other objects are filed in metal cabinets or displayed on the walls. Scattered around the place are bundles containing trickster tools of trade: paints, canvases, chemicals, anything used to make the piece look authentic… In an ironic twist of fate, some master forgers are now getting respect from the art establishment they challenged and, in some cases, convulsed. London’s Victoria and Albert Museum has a separate gallery devoted to first-class fakes and forgeries. Other respected museums around the world are giving the counterfeiters—long the object of public fascination—shows of their own. Comment made 14 years ago on Tuesday 20 May 2008

Writer Peter Ho Davies speaks in Melbourne

Cnr Bourke & Swanston Streets
Melbourne 3000
(03) 9662 4699
email:
readers@readersfeast.com.au
6.15 for 6.30pm, Monday 26 May 2008
The Abbotsford Convent
1 St Heliers Street, Abbotsford
$15.00pp $12.50 conc* unreserved seating
Pre-paid Bookings (03) 9662 4699
email: readers@readersfeast.com.au
Reader’s Feast Booksellers
invite you to hear our Writer at the Convent
Peter Ho Davies
in conversation with Jason Steger
“The Welsh girl is a perfectly constructed novel -
captivating, thought provoking, a setting and characters
that are so easily imagined, and an ending that is the only
possible conclusion to this most memorable work."
Mary Dalmau, Reader’s Feast
We are proud to announce that on his visit to Australia,
Peter Ho Davies will travel to Melbourne courtesy of his
publishers, Hachette Livre, to appear for one event only with Reader’s Feast.

Peter Ho Davies directs the MFA Programme in Creative
Writing at the University of Michigan. He is a recipient of
fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts
and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. In 2003,
he was named by Granta magazine as one of twenty ‘Best
of Young British Novelists’. "

The Welsh Girl" was long listed for the Booker in 2007.

6.15 for 6.30pm, Monday 26 May 2008
The Abbotsford Convent
1 St Heliers Street, Abbotsford
$15.00pp $12.50 conc* unreserved seating
Pre-paid Bookings (03) 9662 4699
email: readers@readersfeast.com.au

Comment made 14 years ago on Tuesday 20 May 2008

The long way home...

This looks awesome. Reminds me of the psychotropicalism article by Amelia Douglas in the latest unmag

Comment made 14 years ago on Thursday 08 May 2008

Johnston st Collingwood

good little ari thing happening down this end of town now…

Comment made 14 years ago on Thursday 01 May 2008

Once more, with feeling

Dude!

Comment made 14 years ago on Monday 28 April 2008

Favourite local artists

invest in lolcats

Comment made 14 years ago on Monday 28 April 2008

Would you die for art?

Gregor Schneider is looking for a volunteer who is willing to die for a new artwork he’s making…

More here

Comment made 14 years ago on Monday 28 April 2008

Aesthetic Laboratory

Congrats on the mention in The Sunday Age, Ace.

Comment made 14 years ago on Sunday 27 April 2008

public performance art

lo-fi mashup of an Art of Bleeding performance.

Fun stuff.

Reminds me of the Terrorism Australia peformances running around the Melbourne cbd last next wave festival.

Comment made 14 years ago on Wednesday 23 April 2008

Paul Robertson new animation

He certainly did. What a genius.

Comment made 14 years ago on Tuesday 22 April 2008

Paul Robertson new animation

new pic on paul’s blog. make a great desktop wallpaper

Comment made 14 years ago on Monday 21 April 2008

EEC's Artistic License

Next time customs won’t let you through the gate to the USA …

Comment made 14 years ago on Monday 21 April 2008

MY PARENTS DON'T KNOW I'M ADOPTED

lolz. my parents don’t know they’re adopted either.

Comment made 14 years ago on Monday 21 April 2008

Artabase is a Webby Honoree

no… have you sold much stuff?

Comment made 14 years ago on Monday 21 April 2008

Artabase is a Webby Honoree

I heard Redbubble got one for community (ie not art).

Are you on there?

Comment made 14 years ago on Sunday 20 April 2008

Artabase on Facebook

The Central Intelligence Agency is not going to get very intelligent reading Facebook.

However the Australian police did use it to investigate that attack in Melbourne CBD where two dudes got shot trying to help a girl who was being forced in to a car.

I know one of the girl’s friends. He doesn’t use his real name on Facebook and thus was not investigated for it, but all her other Facebook friends were investigated.

Comment made 14 years ago on Sunday 20 April 2008