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Posted By: Julie

We have at the Asian Art Museum, in an exhibit callrd "Fakes, Copies and Question Marks," a small painting of a prince visiting a guru, painted in India--quite recently. There is a (very small-print) LOA with it, saying, "this is a copy of an ancient Indian painting; buy it, in 150 years, it, too will be an ancient Indian painting." The painting is surrounded by very old Persian writing, as Indian paintings often are--writing MUCH older than the copy inside it, and having nothing top do with it (I'm told).

Would anyone who recognized the Persian writing (without being able to read it), bother with the small print in the LOA?

Plus ca change, plus la meme chose.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.