[afraidfortherepublic]

Museums have for years been quietly removing artwork to their basements, never to be seen again. Example: Getty’s fake kouros, ( statue of a young Greek male) that they paid a ton of money for and just can’t bring themselves to admit is a fake. Still they quietly moved it to the basement.

Although not "ancient" Winterthur (Henry DuPont's collection of Americana) has a whole wing devoted to fakes that they bought unwittingly. They even give a class for curators there.

[count-your-change]

I had thought the Getty kouros was taken down but another poster corrected me. Still some of the fakes are really pretty good work and to this art “philistine” show as much talent as the real thing.
It’s an interesting side to the art world. thanks.