11 July

This is Tom Keating, master art forger, taken in the 1970s. He forged thousands of works. He's now collectible in his own right, to the extent there are now forgeries, of Tom Keating forgeries. Humans copy, it's their most human act. The distinction between an 'authentic' thing and its copy was invented by copying. There is no such thing as an original, without a copy. The explosion of people seeking authentic everything, including entire lives, was created by the explosion of imitation we now see through social media. Social media is imitative rivalry, people copying each other, in teams, battling other teams.