Artsy – Art forgeries are surprisingly common, to the point that scandals hit the news regularly. No one is safe from deception—forgers can be skilled enough to dupe experts at some of the world’s most prestigious museums. So what do these institutions do when valuable objects within their collections are challenged as being fake? – read more
![Visitors look at a Marble statue of a Kouros, representing the Greek physical ideal during the Archaic period (700-480 BC), at the Getty Villa Museum in Malibu, California on April 18, 2011. The Getty Villa exhibits classical antiquities collection of Greek, Roman and Etruscan art. The Villa is modeled after a Roman country house buried by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 AD. AFP PHOTO / GABRIEL BOUYS (Photo credit should read GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP/Getty Images)](http://newsite2016.arterynyc.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/d7hftxdivxxvm.cloudfront-1-750x400.jpg)