Comments on: Fake is the new real http://blogs.walkerart.org/offcenter/2007/12/12/fake-real/ Outside Ideas from Inside the Walker Art Center Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:39:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Reggie Prim http://blogs.walkerart.org/offcenter/2007/12/12/fake-real/#comment-62087 Reggie Prim Thu, 13 Dec 2007 20:23:00 +0000 http://blogs.walkerart.org/offcenter/2007/12/12/fake-real/#comment-62087 Reminds me of Eric Hebborn, the master forger who was found lying in the street in Rome with his head bashed open in 1996 shortly after the publication of his book <i>The Art Forger's Handbook</i>. He was infamous for hundreds of drawings in collections all over the world. He was a talented artist who turned to fakery when his "original" work was ignored. His 1991 biography <i>Drawn To Trouble</i> is still worth a read, if for nothing, the bitterly funny way he skewers the art world. Reminds me of Eric Hebborn, the master forger who was found lying in the street in Rome with his head bashed open in 1996 shortly after the publication of his book The Art Forger’s Handbook. He was infamous for hundreds of drawings in collections all over the world. He was a talented artist who turned to fakery when his “original” work was ignored. His 1991 biography Drawn To Trouble is still worth a read, if for nothing, the bitterly funny way he skewers the art world.

]]> By: Cameron Wittig http://blogs.walkerart.org/offcenter/2007/12/12/fake-real/#comment-62082 Cameron Wittig Thu, 13 Dec 2007 18:53:16 +0000 http://blogs.walkerart.org/offcenter/2007/12/12/fake-real/#comment-62082 Fake is the new real at Art Basel '07: <i>"Inside the New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) benefit preview for the New Museum, collectors made a beeline for Soho's Renwick Gallery booth and Los Angeles artist <b>Chris Lipomi's '84 Olympics series -- small replicas of every painting Basquiat executed in 1984."</b></i> <i>...Lipomi is working on another 60 mini-Basquiats to finish his series. Like the others, they're about a third the size of the genuine eighties article, so no one's going to be leveling the charge of counterfeiter. Yet.</i> From nymag.com - http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2007/12/baby_basquiats_storm_art_basel.html Fake is the new real at Art Basel ‘07:

“Inside the New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) benefit preview for the New Museum, collectors made a beeline for Soho’s Renwick Gallery booth and Los Angeles artist Chris Lipomi’s ‘84 Olympics series -- small replicas of every painting Basquiat executed in 1984.”

…Lipomi is working on another 60 mini-Basquiats to finish his series. Like the others, they’re about a third the size of the genuine eighties article, so no one’s going to be leveling the charge of counterfeiter. Yet.

From nymag.com - http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2007/12/baby_basquiats_storm_art_basel.html

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