Fakes And Forgeries: Museum, FBI, and materials scientist reveal ploys used to produce fraudulent art

Chemical & Engineering News explores methods museums, law enforcement, and scientists use to detect fakes and forgeries, detailing a 2007 exhibition at the Bruce Museum and Orion’s work with the FBI pertaining to fraudulent paintings.


How to Spot a Fake

Forbes.com advises collectors on new technologies used to differentiate genuine works of art from misattributions, fakes, and forgeries, including Orion’s use of state-of-the-art Raman microscopy.


The Scientific Study and Experimental Treatment of an Ad Reinhardt Black Painting

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum reports on the Ad Reinhardt Black Painting project and the related 2008 exhibition, which included Orion’s contribution of microscopy and spectroscopy to characterize the structure and composition of paint layers.


Scientist Presents Case Against Possible Pollocks

The New York Times reports on Orion’s investigation of the Matter Paintings, a cache of undocumented paintings allegedly painted by Jackson Pollock and discovered in 2002 wrapped in brown paper in a Long Island warehouse. The International Foundation for Art Research (IFAR) Journal published Orion's investigation.


Mahantongo blanket chests

The Magazine Antiques describes furniture made by Pennsylvania Germans between the late 1820s and the early 1840s decorated with brightly colored designs rendered in a palette of green, yellow, red, blue, and black -- and Orion’s contribution of technical art history.


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