THE ARTIST, THE CONMAN AND THE $15 MILLION FRAUD
The curious tale of a dysfunctional couple of British art forgers who managed to crank out a wide array of "antiquities" and and artworks and sell them on as original finds and treasures to prominent galleries both in Britain and abroad.
Link: http://narrative.ly/pulp-non-fiction/artist-conman-and-15-million-fraud/ (small link to skip registration.)
Raising the question, without the provenance or history, what is the value of art? Does it have value in it's own right?
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Serendipitous Finds
And the weekly routine of searching for furniture has turned up some serendipitous finds....a fine pair of antique candlesticks, and a vintage weight. Just what I was looking for (or not...)
It's not the jellyfish I was so hoping for, but it'll do...
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A Map of US Consumer Obsessions
An interesting map of the US, based on what residents of each state are most likely to be searching for. In Alaska it's milk, in Tennessee it's a DNA test, in Florida it's an abortion...
View an embiggened version of the map and article here: http://www.fixr.com/blog/2015/02/27/cost-obsessions-us-map/
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A pyramid of tools per square km in Africa?
"Researchers used the new survey of the Messak Settafet to estimate that enough stone tools were discarded over the course of human evolution in Africa to build more than one Great Pyramid for every square kilometer of land on the continent."
Link: http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/saharan-carpet-of-tools-is-the-earliest-known-man-made-landscape
And I get discouraged because I can't find a single Arrowhead. No wonder.
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