Fake art stars in New York show

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An exhibition which has opened in New York takes the unlikely step of placing fake works of art on display. The Brooklyn Museum, like many others, began buying ancient Coptic and Pagan sculptures after World War II. However, the museum's curators recently discovered that roughly a third of their collection is fake.The resulting exhibition places genuine sculptures from the 4th Century AD alongside a small group of forgeries, probably from the mid-20th Century.Experts say there is no way of knowing exactly who carved the limestone fakes, though one theory suggests they may have been produced by prisoners-of-war in Egypt. Coptic and Pagan sculpture flooded the Western art market after World War II.

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