…I just twittered a SAFECORNER post that has to do with FAKES on the Antiquities Market, and it has gotten me thinking: IF people were some how able to create accurate and authentic reproductions of ancient relics that are free of temporal or stylistic inconsistencies (already kind of a pipe dream), would it be entirely [...]
Archive for February, 2010
Just throwing this out there:
Posted in Different Perspectives, General, Off-topic, Opinions, tagged Antiquities Market, Forgeries, SAFECORNER on 21/02/2010 | 2 Comments »
China’s New Bourgeoise and The Antiquities Market
Posted in looting, News Articles of Interest, Opinions, tagged Antiquities Market, Hong Kong, looting, Museum Security Network on 21/02/2010 | Leave a Comment »
Something many of you who have dabbled in Antiquities Market research already know is the so-called “driving force of collectors;” well, in China, as many sinologists already know, a new class of people have recently been exercising their social and economic power. This new class, called China’s New Bourgeoise, is made up primarily of wealthy, [...]
