Re: Modern art ... again
I didn't intend the wine thing as an analogy in that sense. I'm talking about the skepticism about the value of non-representational art.
Authentication is different. High value paintings are, in some way, historical artifacts, and people sometimes manage to fool experts with well-done forgeries. Besides, forgery is in no way exclusive to non-representational art. There are about a jillion fake Mona Lisas out there. There are also fakes of pretty much any kind of historical artifact that people will pay significant amounts of money for, from fossils to burial shrouds.
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