{"id":12826,"date":"2023-06-16T00:18:49","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T00:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=12826"},"modified":"2023-07-03T00:23:45","modified_gmt":"2023-07-03T00:23:45","slug":"rusty-nails-and-bakelite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2023\/06\/16\/rusty-nails-and-bakelite\/","title":{"rendered":"Rusty Nails and Bakelite"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/live-news\/20230616-cat-and-mouse-world-of-art-fraud-revealed-in-london-show\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from France 24<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Cat-and-mouse world of art fraud revealed in London show<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p><em>London (AFP) \u2013\u00a0<\/em>Some of the most notorious art forgeries form the centre-piece of a new London show, which reveals a cat-and-mouse world of intrigue, deception and painstaking detective work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s.france24.com\/media\/display\/81d9c99a-0c62-11ee-9b75-005056a90321\/b61dd2c8f22b6ac8e428775a57a75d963030e6ac.webp\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>The show highlights the work of known forgers who have been unmasked\u00a0\u00a9 HENRY NICHOLLS \/ AFP<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The exhibition, which opens at the Courtauld in Somerset House on Saturday, features around 25 drawings and seven paintings, as well as sculpture and decorative art from the renowned gallery&#8217;s collection.<br>Armed with magnifying glasses, visitors can scrutinise purported masterpieces by Sandro Botticelli, John Constable, and Auguste Rodin.<br>Visitors will learn how they were created, the methods of the most infamous forgers and the increasingly sophisticated methods used to detect them.<br>&#8220;Forgeries have always existed in the history of art and have a place in our study,&#8221; Rachel Hapoienu, drawings cataloguer at the gallery, told AFP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/live-news\/20230616-cat-and-mouse-world-of-art-fraud-revealed-in-london-show\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at AFP<\/a> ] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from France 24 Cat-and-mouse world of art fraud revealed in London show London (AFP) \u2013\u00a0Some of the most notorious art forgeries form the centre-piece of a new London show, which reveals a cat-and-mouse world of intrigue, deception and painstaking detective work. The exhibition, which opens at the Courtauld in Somerset House on Saturday, features around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}