Actually, on the subjects of forgeries, there was
a story several years ago you might remember where a physicist discovered some unique fractal patterns and progressions over time in Jackson Pollock's paintings. As I remember it, he used this formula to evaluate several similar style paintings and replicas, and later to evaluate some recently discovered paintings that some thought might be previously unknown Pollocks. The known fakes didn't fit the pattern, but the unknown ones did. There was a great hubbub and hullabaloo about what something like this could mean.
If Pollock's work could be authenticated with this formula, would they also be replicable? Did the fractal patterns prove that Pollock's work did have some kind of quantifiable quality that gave it objective value? Did it at least put to rest the idea that modern art was just random bullshit? Would Pollock prove that fractals are art? Would fractals prove that Pollocks weren't?