广州美术学院图书馆原馆长承认掉包大师名画

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BBC Chinese, July 21, 2015
www.bbc.com/zhongwen/simp/china/2015/07/150721_china_art_forgery
(萧元)


(2) 王霜舟, 中国画家伪作换真迹获利数千万元. 纽约时报中文网, July 23, 2015
http://cn.nytimes.com/china/20150723/c23sino-fake/

, which is translated from

Austin Ramzy, Out-Faking the Fakers: Chinese Librarian Proud of Forged Masters. New York Times, July 22, 2015 (blog).

two consecutive paragraphs:

"Xiao Yuan, the author of several books on Chinese art and a former librarian at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, said he came up with the scheme when he began a project to digitize the school’s collection in 2003 and noticed that many originals had been replaced with fakes.

"That was what gave him the inspiration to do it himself, he told the court on Tuesday, according to a video of the proceedings.

My comment: There is no need to read the rest of the NYT report.