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With museums increasingly digitizing their art collections, it becomes pretty easy to forge paintings. Now, two researchers are working on a digital system to help detect original works from counterfeit ones.
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Tom Gray, owner of Cowden Art Conservation, inspects an 1851 Alger Cadet Gun after it was placed on display at the MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History in Little Rock, Ark., Thursday, July 3, 2008. The bronze Artillery piece was commandeered by...
