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• China’s Art Factories: Van Gogh From the Sweatshop (SPIEGEL ONLINE)
  “Southern China is the world’s leading center for mass-produced works of art. One village of artists exports about five million paintings every year. The fastest workers can paint up to 30 paintings a day.”
  (tags: forgery sweatshops art.market China)
• The Smart Set: The Ugly Truth – January 8, 2008
  “The funny thing about Umberto Eco’s new book On Ugliness is that it is so pretty. It’s a beautiful collection of color reproductions of some of the great paintings, sculptures, and photographs from the last 2,000 years of Western art.”
  (tags: ugliness failure art.history Umberto.Eco book review)

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