Did the gallery do everything possible to make sure it wasn’t selling forgeries? Doesn’t look like it, nope. The gallery was warned about a known seller of forged art – and then bought a “de Kooning” from him anyway.
Tag: 11.03.13
In A World Where Everyone Knows Everything About Your Film’s Universe
J.J. Abrams on the original Star Wars, before the sequels and prequels and books and toys and games and everything: “The beauty of that movie was that it was an unfamiliar world, and yet you wanted to see it expand and to see where it went.”
Last Year, When ‘The Pope Of Trash’ Hitchhiked Across The U.S.
John Waters: “I last hitchhiked when I was 16. It’s a bit different when you’re 66.”
Huge Cache Of Nazi-Looted Art Discovered – And Recovered – In Munich
“The artworks, which could be worth as much as €1bn (£860m), are said to include pieces by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Marc Chagall, Paul Klee, Max Beckmann and Emil Nolde.”
When Everyone But You Knows The Biggest Secret About Your Life
Steve Lickteig’s best friends took him aside the night before high school graduation. Lickteig: “They told me who my mother was and they told me that they had known for basically their entire lives and that everybody I had grown up with had known for their entire lives.”
August Wilson’s Leading Interpreter, Now Appearing As The Man Himself
Ruben Santiago-Hudson, who has won major awards for both acting in and directing Wilson’s plays, talks about starring in the playwright’s autobiographical one-man show, How I Learned What I Learned.