Art Games and Forgeries

http://www.artsmarttalk.com/3/post/2013/01/art-games-and-forgeries.html
'Legitimate' art and Art Forgery - thoughts on complex games, and on two recent books featuring the art and the schemes of high stakes forgery.

Royal Portraits: The Grand and the Odd

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Royal Portraits in history, and at look at some recent odd and interesting additions to the Windsor family gallery

Matisse: In Search of True Painting & El Anatsui in Chelsea

http://www.artsmarttalk.com/3/post/2013/01/matisse-in-search-of-painting-at-the-met-and-el-anatsui-in-chelsea.html

Matisse is at the Met in New York and he's telling stories. This major exhibit, full of the pleasure of his art, also delves deep into his ideas, his process, and into the ways in which great art springs into being. Through Mar 17 2013
El Anatsui in Chelsea - through Jan 17 2013