In our fifth episode, 'Fake it til you make it!' your hosts Alice Acland and Tash Waddell discuss the differences between a 'fake' and a 'forgery' and the roles they play within museums and Art History at large. In this episode we discuss if you can really trust a museum, how conservation and restoration  can affect art works and  if you would mind seeing a replica of your favourite painting in a museum?

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 "Deepfakes: five ways in which they are brilliant business opportunities" — https://theconversation.com/deepfakes-five-ways-in-which-they-are-brilliant-business-opportunities-131591 Links for further reading: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/may/27/wasnt-cock-a-hoop-fooled-experts-britains-master-art-forgerSalvator Mundi: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/christies-releases-condition-report-for-leonardos-salvator-mundi#:~:text=Modestini%20then%20professionally%20restored%20the,back%20closer%20to%20Leonardo's%20original. https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/oct/14/leonardo-da-vinci-mystery-why-is-his-450m-masterpiece-really-being-kept-under-wraps-salvator-mundi https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/the-louvre-wants-this-450-million-leonardo-in-its-big-show-but-its-mystery-owner-appears-to-be-balking/2019/10/15/85bc5094-eec2-11e9-b648-76bcf86eb67e_story.html Oliver Watson - Definition of Fake and Forgery : https://www.academia.edu/1130702/Fakes_and_forgeries_in_Islamic_pottery Watson and Ferguson article: http://islamicartssn.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/5._Fakes_and_Forgeries-1.pdf Al-Biruni Manuscript: https://collections.ed.ac.uk/iconics/record/51395?highlight=al+biruni+ Yves Klein’s Venus : https://kam.illinois.edu/resource/conservation-venus-bleue-yves-klein Vice documentary: Sean Greenhalgh : https://www.vice.com/en/article/yp5e8y/best-of-2015-the-year-in-art-crime Replicas in museum: https://www.msamlin.com/en/chart-hub/english/are-museums-displaying-fakes.html