Hyperallergic: Can an Artist’s DNA Help Detect Forgeries?. “Scientists working with the nonprofit Leonardo da Vinci DNA Project, for which I provide legal advice as an intellectual property attorney, have been collaborating for a decade on developing methods to do non-invasive testing of the works of Leonardo and other artists to assemble a ‘biome profile’ that would identify the artist.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/16/hyperallergic-can-an-artists-dna-help-detect-forgeries/
New blog post! The team of the DFG project “ForNet” about “Forgeries and Networks: data transformations”
https://dhlab.hypotheses.org/7237
#DHLab_IEG #arthistory #DigitalArtHistory #networkanalysis #forgeries
10 Famous Forgeries from the Middle Ages https://www.medievalists.net/2025/03/forgeries-middle-ages/ #medieval #history #forgeries
I am endlessly amused by turn of the century #Byzantine enamel #forgeries made by someone who obviously saw "South Park" coming...
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1dErin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social
As part of #AprilFakesWeek learn about the lives of 'Makers & Fakers' like the infamous forger of prehistoric artefacts, Flint Jack in a #BehindTheScenes tour & hear how copies, replicas, casts and fakes 'make' museum collections. Sun 6 April, 12.30-16.00. https://bit.ly/4gTDXWn
Pitt Rivers Museum
@Pitt_Rivers #Fakes #forgeries
Spotted a fair quantity of fake 1920s–30s wood engravings by contemporary forger Earl M. Washington (now in prison) at a shop in Dearborn, MI, priced at $50–125. He'd been at it for decades & first attracted negative attention from the Escher estate
japecake @japecake #fakes #forgeries #artforgeries
“(Craig) Wright had claimed intellectual property rights associated with bitcoin, but that was demolished when the high court found he lied about his role, deploying often clumsy #forgeries “on a grand scale” and #technobabble. The real #Nakamoto is likely to be a billionaire because they are thought to own 1 million bitcoins.
Wright was then ordered to stop taking legal actions against bitcoin developers, but defied that court order in October when he brought suits against #cryptocurrency #developers amounting to more than £900bn in respect of his claimed intellectual property rights related to #bitcoin.”
#TechWeenies / #software / #finance <https://theguardian.com/technology/2024/dec/19/craig-wright-man-who-falsely-claimed-to-be-bitcoin-creator-sentenced-for-continuing-to-sue-developers>
Police inundated with calls over #art #forgeries | Amid an ongoing police investigation of a Thessaloniki auction house for allegedly selling fake artworks, calls have flooded in from previous buyers, both domestic and international, willing to testify https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/1255824/police-inundated-with-calls-over-art-forgeries/
Medieval document exposed as 18th-century forgery https://www.medievalists.net/2024/11/medieval-document-exposed-as-18th-century-forgery/ #forgeries #medieval
Ancient Texts That Were FAKED
“A close look at some of the more interesting (and infamous) ancient texts that were discovered and then found out to be forgeries.”
#Video length: fifty eight minutes and twenty one seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fLsbEWrRvk
#Ancient #Texts #Fake #Forgeries #Antiquity #Antiquiodons #Archaeology #Archaeodons @archaeodons @antiquiodons
Two men have been sentenced to jail in London for selling more than £2.6 million (around $3.2 million) in fake fine art attributed to Salvador Dalí and Pablo Picasso.
The Two #Gods of #Marcion and the #Forgeries in the Name of #Paul
https://ehrmanblog.org/the-two-gods-of-marcion-and-the-forgeries-in-the-name-of-paul
There‘s a bunch of book thieves going around prestigious #libraries and swapping #Pushkin #FirstEditions for (so the library officials say) high quality facsimiles. The @stabi_berlin
has been targeted , also national libraries in Poland and the Baltic states.
It’s a wild story, and the forgers’ skills seem to be very remarkable.
#artcrimes #russianliterature #forgeries #antiquarianbooks
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/a79836a3-8c74-4db9-882b-690a074763f5
Is the #NewTestament Actually Filled with #Forgeries?
#christianity #gospels #apostlepaul #NT #apologetics #atheism #bartehrman #forgery #bible
The #Top10 Most Fascinating #Forgeries That Almost Passed as Real
https://listverse.com/2024/01/06/the-top-10-most-fascinating-forgeries-that-almost-passed-as-real/
Columbus Letter Beloved by Thieves and Forgers Sells for $3.9 Million
A rare pamphlet about Christopher Columbus’s first voyage was auctioned by Christie’s, which said it had taken pains to ensure this one wasn’t forged or stolen.
NY Times article (unlocked):
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/19/arts/design/columbus-letter-auction-christies.html?unlocked_article_code=1.30w.uWu5.dAzG0jNoClso&smid=url-share
@CitizenWald @Drdonnayates @elginism When I was teaching at Yale nearly 30 years ago, the curator of ancient art at the Yale University Art Gallery kept on her desk a marble head of Pompey that had been purchased in Rome shortly after World War II as an authentic antiquity, but subsequent examinations in the decades that followed proved it to be a modern forgery. The Pompey head did subsequently appear in a museum exhibit in Kansas City, an exhibit on art forgeries.
#NewPaper #Paleontology #FossilTurtles #Forgeries
Scheyer, T.M., Oliveira, G.R., Romano, P.S.R. et al. A forged ‘chimera’ including the second specimen of the protostegid sea turtle Santanachelys gaffneyi and shell parts of the pleurodire Araripemys from the Lower Cretaceous Santana Group of Brazil. Swiss J Palaeontol 142, 6 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13358-023-00271-9
“The lack of provenance closes the gap between an object looted and an object forged. Both create a market without transparency.” — Erin Daly
https://hyperallergic.com/818301/how-did-fake-antiquities-end-up-at-a-presidential-library/
Every 🤢fake provenance 🤢
- for a forgery
- or Holocaust-linked artwork
- or looted antiquity
written or published or commissioned by a museum is
a 🤢falsification of history🤢 by an institution
abusing the trust placed in it by the public.
Yet, no effort has been made to track false provenances and the interconnected #networks of #authors, #funders, #publishers, and #disseminators.
#ethics #museum #governance #fakenews #disinformation #art #culturalheritage #forgeries #histodon
