Fake or Facsimile: Part 6: “A Substitute Sistine Chapel”
Very nearly twenty years ago (March, 1998), “the largest exhibition space in Japan”[i] was opened to the public in Naruto (Tokushima...
Fake or Facsimile: Part 5: "Fake Attractions"
“China’s Terracotta Warriors”, a 7,000 strong Army (with 10,000 weapons)[i] which accompanied the 1st Qin Emperor (died 210 BCE) into the...
Fake or Facsimile: Part 4: "Replicate & Situate"
If you have been engaged with any of the arguments presented in Fake or Facsimile so far, you will already know, from Part III (“King...
Fake or Facsimile: Part 3: "King Tut's Golden Mask"
In August 2014, a repair to reattach the false beard of Tutankhamun’s golden funereal mask was undertaken—in front of tourists[i]—in...
Fake or Facsimile: Part 2: “Faux Chauvet”
France is home to two of the world’s most famous pre-historic sites. The Lascaux cave complex was discovered in September 1940; the...
Fake or Facsimile: Part 1: The Myth of the Yuandan
Alibaba accounts for 2/3s of all China’s consumer online shopping; however not every item on the site should be judged as an irresistible...
