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Female bust purporting to be Holy Wisdom holding an orb and staff
Female bust purporting to be Holy Wisdom holding an orb and staff (Brooklyn Museum)

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.


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