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After Algur Meadows, the head of an oil company and noted collector of European paintings, donated his collection of Spanish art to Southern Methodist University in Dallas in the 1960s toward the creation of a museum, it was discovered that almost all of the works by the most important artists were badly misattributed or outright fakes.

Daniel Grant: What Happens to Confiscated Art 'Fakes'? Daniel Grant 2010

After Algur Meadows, the head of an oil company and noted collector of European paintings, donated his collection of Spanish art to Southern Methodist University in Dallas in the 1960s toward the creation of a museum, it was discovered that almost all of the works by the most important artists were badly misattributed or outright fakes.

Daniel Grant: What Happens to Confiscated Art 'Fakes'? Daniel Grant 2010

T he Dec. 15 editorial "Regulation for Dummies" misattributed an analysis of the Federal Register under Presidents Obama, Bush and Clinton.

Corrections & Amplifications 2011

After Algur Meadows, the head of an oil company and noted collector of European paintings, donated his collection of Spanish art to Southern Methodist University in Dallas in the 1960s toward the creation of a museum, it was discovered that almost all of the works by the most important artists were badly misattributed or outright fakes.

Daniel Grant: What Happens to Confiscated Art 'Fakes'? Daniel Grant 2010

The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, in line with department policy, noted that European health authorities have misattributed the source of E. coli outbreaks in the past.

U.K. in Sprout Warning After French E. Coli Outbreak Associated Press 2011

The Dec. 15 editorial "Regulation for Dummies" misattributed an analysis of the Federal Register under Presidents Obama, Bush and Clinton.

CORRECTION 2011

There's a huge difference between anonymous/pseudonymous speech and misattributed speech; this is only made more complex if one considers the researchers to be merely "ratifying" the anonymous/pseudonymous speech.

Ghostbusting and the First Amendment Rebecca Tushnet 2009

Comments released to a parliamentary committee this week about Afghanistan's Khandahar prison that the facility seemed "to be in reasonably good condition" and that inmates got "enough food" were misattributed to Canadian diplomat Richard Colvin.

Archive 2009-12-01 2009

This column has been error-free for days, maybe even weeks—knock on wood—but I continue to reel I reel easily from a piece I wrote on Nov. 1 about the Statue of Liberty in which I misattributed to Emma Goldman the famous quote at the monument, "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free."

Knowing Emma Lazarus Ralph Gardner Jr. 2012

On the other side of the political aisle, District 18 hopeful Karen Cullen is so outraged by an Accountability for Colorado mailer that allegedly misattributed information that she is asking the district attorney to investigate, according to a report this week in the Colorado Springs Gazette.

Throwing Mailers at the Wall: What Sticks? 2010