Financial Times
Ai Weiwei: a story of faith and fakes
The idea that we might trust an artwork seems strange. But what if I were to tell you that your favourite piece — a Gauguin in a museum, or a performance of a Rachmaninov piano concerto, say — was a fake? That the painting was actually a forgery, or the recording was a hoax (indeed, both have actually happened). Would you be able to see it or hear it in the same way? Or would you feel something akin to betrayal?