[count-your-change]

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.
The “experts” get taken in just like us common folk.

[fini]

There is an art museum in Baltimore, MD. This museum has a section devoted entirely to fakes. They display paintings and sculpture that have been determined to be fakes. They explain the "fakes" histories to include how they were duped and how it was discovered as being fake. It is very fascinating and the most popular part of the museum.

[spyone]

Art fraud is the second oldest profession. You could make an excellent living in the middle ages wandering from town to town producing and selling pieces of the “true cross”, or bones of one saint or another. If you totalled up all the pieces, you would have a small forest and a large army of skeletons.

[SunkenCiv]

thanks, and for all, an entry about the fake kouros.

[wideminded]

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.

If you're talking about this statue, it certainly wasn't in a basement when I visited the Getty Villa about two months ago.

[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.