I love Boing Boing, but a statistic they just published as a headline has got to be the height of sensationalist ignorance. This is the title:
60% of World's Paintings Come From One Village in China
The "one village" is called Dafen, where there are factories of artists who paint "counterfeits, replicas and nothing close that would be considered art." Are they saying there is someone who counts all the paintings in the world, knows where each painting in the world is painted down to the village level, and then produced this statistic? Boing, Boing, give me a break.
Link to article.
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