Van Goghs

I have no hidden underground vault filled with gold and rare gems, no personal galleries of original Van Goghs or Monets, although I do have moldering in a closet a few bins of comic books that may or may not be worth a few bucks.

Rev. Peter M. Wallace: What Are You Hoarding, And Where Are You Hoarding It? Rev. Peter M. Wallace 2011

Prized in the marketplace, Van Gogh's works have occasionally inspired the efforts of art forgers, as cultural anthropologist Henk Tromp relates in 'A Real Van Gogh' 2010, which recounts the riveting case of Dr. Otto Wacker, a Berlin dealer who marketed dozens of fake Van Goghs during the 1920s.

A Stranger to Himself Jonathan Lopez 2011

Perhaps in the midst of the heat wave, when comfort trumps fashion, a desire to gaze upon clothes made of heavy, uncomfortable fabrics, leathers, and metals overtakes museum-goers otherwise content to gaze upon Renoirs and Van Goghs.

Leora Tanenbaum: Wear Comfortable Shoes! Long Lines at Met's McQueen Exhibit Leora Tanenbaum 2011

If you've noticed your favorite Van Goghs getting darker, it's not because you've caught the troubled Dutch painter's depression.

Chemists Called in as Van Gogh's Pigments Darken The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

They believed he was going to buy the art from them, to resell them as original Picassos, Dalis and Van Goghs, realizing that the young starving artists had a lot of talent and he knew exactly how to tap in on it all.

The curious case of the dead artists (w. Helen Vitoria) Walter Bjorkman 2011

By this logic, museums no longer need the expense and overhead of their collections of Rembrandts and Van Goghs since excellent and widely available digital images exist.

Efficiency Really Isn't Everything 2011

Painting 15 fake Van Goghs, or even 25 fake Van Goghs, may well be better than making touch screens for smartphones, where you have to stand in silence for 12-hour shifts, and sleep in dormitories surrounded by wire netting, so you don't kill yourself, which you might otherwise be tempted to do, but it doesn't, at least from the depiction on the Barbican stage, look like very much fun.

Christina Patterson: The Ugly Side of Our Globalised World Christina Patterson 2011

The Chinese artist ends up working in one of the "art factories" in southern China, painting 15 fake Van Goghs a day.

Christina Patterson: The Ugly Side of Our Globalised World Christina Patterson 2011

The market for fake Van Goghs in this country isn't quite as big as the market for iPhones, or iPads, or laptops, or handbags, or pretty much everything that's made in China and sold here for a song.

Christina Patterson: The Ugly Side of Our Globalised World Christina Patterson 2011

If you've noticed your favorite Van Goghs getting darker, it's not because you've caught the troubled Dutch painter's depression.

Chemists Called in as Van Gogh's Pigments Darken The Huffington Post News Editors 2011