Photo and Hand: GV
Now this is a museum I’m pretty sure you’ve never been to, on the northwest edge of Paris. All of about four rooms, and as many visitors.
But it can really make you nervous, when you realize that the world is full of fakes. From Cuban cigars, to replacement hoods for Renaults, to Adidas shirts.
Photo: GV
So when you see the two side-by-side, the genuine and the fake, it’s pretty easy. This Izod alligator puzzle is a snap. The one with the too-big teeth and the too-big red tongue, is clearly the dud.
Photo: gV
Photo: GV
But what do you do when it comes to fake condoms?
CAVEAT EMPTOR!
Or else!!
Gary Vikan, director of the Walters Art Museum since 1994, has been with the Baltimore institution for more than 20 years. A native of Minnesota, Gary received his B.A. from Carleton College in 1967 and his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1976 before working as Senior Associate for Byzantine Art Studies at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C.