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Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art protest Nan Goldin et al: ‘Sacklers’ lies, people die.’ Arena: All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, BBC 2023
Nan Goldin: The Ballad of Sexual Dependency 1983-2022 (35mm slideshow) ibid.
My relationship to Oxycontin started several years ago in Berlin. It was originally prescribed for surgery. So I took it as directed. I got addicted overnight. In the beginning 40 mg was too strong. But as my habit grew there was never enough. I went from 3 pills a day as prescribed to 18. ibid.
Crushing and snorting was my full-time job. When I got out of treatment I learned that the Sackler family whose name I knew from museums and galleries were responsible for the epidemic …. I started a group P.A.I.N. to hold them accountable. ibid.
‘There’s the family of the art world, and the museum world and philanthropy. And then there’s the grubby, unpleasant story of Big Pharma marketing and death.’ ibid.
My anger at the Sackler family. It’s personal. I hate these people. But it’s not about my own addiction. ibid.
All the museums, institutions, need to stop taking money from these corrupt evil bastards. ibid. Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art protest
A stunning treasure worth half a billion dollars lost without a trace … The disappearance of a work of art so remarkable that’s it known as the 8th Wonder of the World. History’s Greatest Mysteries s3e3: Amber Room
Will we ever be able to find the incomparable Amber Room? ibid.
‘After the Nazi siege of Leningrad, the Amber Room goes missing.’ ibid.
Gallery geezer #1: Must be a very late one. I’ve never come across it before.
Gallery geezer #2: Well it’s been out of circulation. Play for Today: Under the Hammer, BBC 1984
Gallery geezer #3: However much I look at it I don’t like it. ibid.
Plundered … stolen pictures … I thought it was interesting … ibid. porter’ talk
American geezer was here – reckons it was a fake. ibid.
I wish you’d kicked McClaren … If only you’d done it half an hour earlier … Absolute discretion, you understand? ibid. gallery geezer
We should go into the possibility of a discreet repair. ibid.
Looks genuine enough for me. ibid. painting repair man
I think you know what I have to say. ibid. gallery geezer to head porter
7th November 2021: It’s 8.30 in the morning. In West London an art curator is waking up to discover he has become a millionaire overnight selling art that doesn’t physically exist. It’s part of a revolution in art that promises vast wealth to those in the know. But is this fast money nothing more than fools’ gold? Our story unfolds in a world where digital art meets cryptocurrency. The Stormtrooper Scandal, BBC 2024
2013 Charity show: In place of guns, he’ll [Ben Moore] exhibit customised Stormtrooper helmets … Art Wars. ibid.
NFTs might be tomorrow’s burst bubble … Taking advantage of this NFT boom are a new generation of investors. ibid.
By the autumn of 2021 there are some emerging masters in this dark magic. Mysterious Svengali-like figures who run NFT sales behind the scenes. ibid.
We’re looking for answers. There are a lot of people who have invested a lot of money. ibid. digital artist
Tonight is my big art gallery opening. What We Do in the Shadows: A Weekend at Morrigan Manor, Guide
I saw some art last year so I’m good. ibid. Nadja
The art world: glamour, wealth, intrigue. Beneath the surface there is a darker place, a world of high stakes and gambles. Fake or Fortune s1e1: Monet BBC 2011
We help one man in his struggle to try to prove his painting is by ... Monet ... In the art world Monet means money. ibid.
Even for a Monet to get to auction it first has to be approved by a very powerful family: the Wildensteins are a family dynasty of billionaire art dealers ... No Monet is ever sold in a major auction house without being listed. ibid.
A painting both generations of Wildensteins have rejected. But Philip thinks they may have overlooked something. 82-year-old David Joel has been fighting a long battle to get his painting accepted ... La Bords de la Seine a Argentueil. ibid.
Monet was one of a group of revolutionary artists who breathed new life and light into art. He brought painting out of the confines of the studio and into the open air ... There was one painting that started it all ... Impression: Sunrise. And this is where Impressionism gets its name. ibid.
The evidence is stacking up ... Professor John House knows the genuine article and knows how to spot it ... ‘I’ve never had a moment’s doubt it was painted by Monet.’ ibid.
It seems outrageous that they [Wildenstein] can just defy international opinion like that. ibid.
This story began with a magical discovery at an Antiques Roadshow ... The rubbish tip find ... The name Winslow Homer is hugely important. Fake or Fortune? s1e2: Homer
In the nineteenth century in America frankly this man has got no equals. ibid.
He was perhaps the first American impressionist. ibid.
Since the auction it’s been locked in a safe ... Lawyers are involved on both sides ... The value probably gone up. ibid.
There was one faker of the twentieth century who left all others standing. His name was Han Van Meegeren. He conned the art world out of about £65,000,000. Fake or Fortune s1e3: Van Meegeren, Philip Mould
Twenty-one of his fakes have now been identified. And I suspect there are more lurking out there. ibid.
He later confessed to faking seven old masters. Crucially the Courtauld’s picture was not amongst them. ibid.
Including works by the artist Van Meegeren dared for forge – the seventeenth-century master Vermeer. ibid.
Van Meegeren managed to fool the experts by his painstaking use of seventeenth-century materials. ibid. Fiona Bruce
Rembrandt ... This painting will bring us within touching distance of one of the greatest artists who ever lived. Fake or Fortune? s1e4 Rembrandt
Lot 185 Rudd’s Auctioneers, Cape Town: Follower of Rembrandt: Portrait of a Man in Oriental Costume. Oil on Panel 49 x 37 cm. Approx £800 – £1,200. ibid.
Rembrandt became famous as the master of the human face. ibid.
It is estimated that by the end of the war one third of all the world’s art treasures had been looted by the Nazis. ibid.
So much was stolen it is estimated that art worth up to £20,000,000,000 remains missing. And the Nazis stole art not only from the Jews but from anyone they considered to be an enemy of the state. ibid.