Art or heist? A Danish artist took $84k and sent a museum 2 blank canvases

Re:Art or heist? A Danish artist took $84k and sent a museum... by Jugurtha on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @04:19PM (#28699357)

Yes. There was that anecdote of someone bringing a painting and being told it was clearly a fake after examination because the real one was exposed in a museum. TL;DR: the one exposed in the museum was the fake, the real one was stolen, and that's the one the person brought.

Double-blind wine experiments where people talk about earthy-mushroomy-fruity tones, then have the label revealed are fun.

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Re:Art or heist? A Danish artist took $84k and sent a museum... by im3w1l on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @05:07PM (#28699963)

Wine's are a little bit different imo, because there is a definitely legit basis there just the border with bullshit and marketing is fuzzy.

My take away from those double-blind experiments isn't that it's all made up, but rather that people need to practice more rigor.

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