On March 22, 2013, an exhibition will open in the Concourse Gallery at the University of Western Ontario. Visitors will be greeted with a wall of sunflowers - a wall of familiar and famous paintings, apparently by Van Gogh. A closer look, however, will reveal that even the seemingly most "real" paintings are actually copies. Famously Anonymous: Dafen Does Van Gogh is an exhibition dealing with art forgery, fakes and counterfeits, researched, designed and curated by the 2012-2013 Introduction to Museum Studies class. The exhibition specifically considers the "globalization" of fake art works (most of them entirely legal, and sold in mass chain stores). As a part of this project, students in the class will work with artists in Dafen, China. Dafen is a small village in Shezhen, known as the Artists' Village. Though little known in the West, Dafen produces 60% of the world's copied paintings. Many end up in private homes but can also be found in hotels, shopping malls, casinos and other public/private spaces. The most popular paintings are copies of canonical works by Van Gogh, Monet and Da Vinci, and in particular, Van Gogh's 1888 painting of sunflowers. We will work with the Dafen artists to explore wider issues of forgery and counterfeiting in the art world. The goal is to appeal to a wide audience, including those interested in art, legal issues and trade, by expanding the issues of copyright and our ideas of artistry connected with originality. Along with commissioning works from Dafen, we will include other recreations and copies made by the community of the same selected work. When it comes to art, to copyright, and to mass production, what is real? What is fake? What is original? And what is authentic?