Wolfgang Beltracchi – Master Art Forger
La Forêt (1927), Max Ernst. Well, not quite. This forgery by Wolfgang Beltracchi was part of the collection of the Max Ernst Museum in Brühl, Max Ernst’s birthplace. It sold for 7 million euros in 2006. Der Spiegel recently published an…
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Cindy Sherman
Cindy Sherman is probably the most popular living American photographer. Sherman is best known for her staged self-portraits, particularly the “Untitled Film Stills” series, officially 1977-1980 but some work from the series is dated 1975-1981. In these staged self-portraits, Sherman changes…
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Jeff Wall – Dead Troops Talk
A 1992 photomontage by Canadian photographer Jeff Wall, Dead Troops Talk (A Vision after an Ambush of a Red Army Patrol, near Moqor, Afghanistan, Winter 1986), has fetched more than $3.6 million at auction. Golly. Dead Troops Talk (1992) –…
Don’t Do Spec Work
I got this email today via this blog: Hey Ian, Hello, We are [redacted], a design your own custom quality skateboard company. We are contacting you because we thought your readers might be interested in our Third Thursday monthly design…
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