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...
The Frenchman and the Spaniard
In the fourth chapter (out of more than 100) of Alexandre Dumas’s The Count of Monte Cristo, the villainous supercargo (purser) of the...
Flattery — How awesome is that?
One of the perplexing things about Dante’s Divine Comedy (the dramatic date of which is the year 1300 A.D.) is why flattery is placed so...
A Two-Legged Stance
The unique perspective which All-In offers to its clientele can best be grasped by attending to literary studies. The All-In slogan “See...
