Dr Jeffrey Michael Taylor is the US Fulbright Scholar at the European Humanities University, where he teaches courses on the Creative Industries and the Art Business. His third book, The Art Business: Art World, Art Market, was published by Routledge Taylor & Francis in October. He has authored the US Art & Design Market Report for the National Endowment for the Arts in the US. Dr Taylor is also a partner at New York Art Forensics, a laboratory in Brooklyn (New York) that analyses artworks to determine authenticity and attribution.

Title of the Report: Knowledge in Art and Its Corruption

Summary

The way the art world agrees to know what it knows, especially on its most pressing questions concerning attribution, i.e., who made the artwork, can seem surprising given how much money may rest on those determinations. In fact, however, the epistemology of art remains a confusing and contradictory system of authority in which art forgers have consistently mastered the techniques of manipulating these structures and inserting their fakes, thereby corrupting the very framework of knowledge itself.

MARIA BEGONA CRESPO GARCIA  STEFANOS SPANEAS  ANDRIUS EIDIMTAS  VALENTINA DEMIDENKO