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Fake Art at the Brooklyn Museum
Critic Lee Rosenbaum Discusses Forgeries of Ancient Sculpture
by Soterios Johnson
NEW YORK, NY July 21, 2008 —One third of the Brooklyn Museum's Coptic art collection is fake. And the museum plans to highlight that fact in an exhibition early next year. But critic Lee Rosenbaum says that could be good news for museums and museum patrons.