Thursday, January 30, 2014

Feeling Jaded by Globe's Front Page

Don’t call the FBI in just yet.

Intent to Deceive: Fakes and Forgeries in the Art World

I have a newspaper full of the stuff.

"For nearly 35 years, the 18th-century Chinese jade artwork was missing, stolen out of a display case at Harvard University’s Fogg Museum. On Tuesday, the precious object returned, the result of an investigation that stretched more than 8,000 miles, from the Midwest to a prestigious auction house in Hong Kong. The US Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement division, which eventually seized the jade, returned it to Harvard on Tuesday. The object, donated to the museum in 1942, disappeared just after Thanksgiving 1979….

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And here is your dose of hate.