2023 Underground Art Market Report
Inigo Philbrick, the New York dealer who was later sentenced to seven years in prison for a $86 million wire fraud scheme, has been released. He was sentenced in May 2022, making his prison stay a little less than four years—more than three years less …
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To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. THE HEADLINES NEW BRITISH MUSEUM LEADER. Nicholas Cullinan has been appointed the new director of the British Museum in London, following the resignation of former director Hartwig Fischer, who stepped down in the wake …
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By Jonathan Morales March 28, 2024 A new, original play will premiere in the Sacramento region this summer, though at an unconventional location. A Sacramento State professor and recent alumna are facilitating theater classes at Folsom State Prison, helping incarcerated individuals find their voice and …
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Inigo Philbrick, the disgraced art dealer who pleaded guilty to carrying out an $86m fraud and was sentenced to seven years in prison, has been released. His sentence of seven years (including two years already served) was handed down in May 2022, meaning that he …
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From the Magazine April 2024 Issue The wunderkind dealer personified the art market’s wealth-generating potential and its unregulated excesses—until he pleaded guilty as part of the largest art fraud in US history. Now out of prison and “wearing the scarlet letter,” Philbrick is searching for …
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While this specific factor is usually overlooked, the unexpected gift of abundant spare time – essential to any creative endeavour – allowed unexpected creative energies to flourish. Along with an astonishing array of special-interest lectures, amateur theatrical performances and musical productions, individual drawing, sketching and …
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‘Orgasm is a good comparison, but there aren’t really any words for that feeling,” is how Art Williams described the first time he counterfeited to Rolling Stone back in 2005. A heavily disadvantaged, gifted kid from Chicago’s South Side, he learned the age-old criminal craft …
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Freedom (2022 Koestler Arts Exhibition), curated by Ai Weiwei. Photo: Stephen Pover Great art comes from anywhere and everywhere. But the intrinsic conundrum is that not every person who could be a great artist will have the means to dedicate their time and energy to …
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