Let’s say you have a favorite painting at your local museum. Ever since you can remember, you have always been drawn to this work for reasons you may not be able to clearly articulate. Maybe it’s the color, perhaps the emotion, or it could be the dynamism of the brush stroke.

The museum label says that the work is by Picasso.

The museum announced to the world last week that this painting is in fact by a guy named Frank Jones from Brooklyn, who made it in his basement in 1990.

The next time you see the painting what is going on in your head? Do you look at the work in the same way? Are you mad? Disappointed? In awe of the forger’s skill?

The only thing that has changed about the painting is the name on the label next to it. Do you care that it is a forgery?

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