For decades the donated painting was proudly displayed as an original. But then the university began an academic unit that tests the authenticity of artworks and objects…
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Fake copies of works by legendary black South African modernist artists are flooding the market - and one university is deploying a range of scientific tests to expose them.
Fake Cambodian sculptures have infiltrated the antiquities market, where they remain unacknowledged and their production continues unabated.


