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Basquiat Forger Arrested By FBI |
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NEW YORK.- New York artist Alfredo Martinez has been charged by the Federal Bureau of Investigation with attempting to deceive two art dealers by selling them $185,000 worth of fake drawings by the famed graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. Martinez, a 300-pound Puerto Rico native, is wellknown on the downtown alternative scene. He has also organized large group exhibitions in vacant industrial spaces, including "Playground of the Fearless" in Brooklyn in late 2001. The charges against Martinez, which landed him in Manhattan’s Metropolitan Correction Center on June 19, 2002, involve an alleged scheme to sell fake Basquiat drawings, accompanied by forged certificates of authenticity, to SoHo dealer Leo Malca and a second art dealer. Martinez’ whereabouts could not be determined, but it has been suggested that Martinez is a "con artist" in more ways than one, and would use his arrest to seek notoriety.
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Today's News
June 15, 2024
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A basket maker keeping alive, and reinventing, an ancestral craft
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Connie Butler appointed Director of MoMA PS1
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The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts presents an exhibition of works by Andō Hiroshige
Pay $1 to hear Wu-Tang Clan's secret album (eventually)
Exhibition at The Photographers' Gallery offers a unique perspective on Mexican society and culture
Winning design team proposed for renewed and enlarged S.M.A.K.
Smithsonian announces endowment of the Smithsonian Science Education Center Director
Gagosian opens "The Body as Matter: Giacometti Nauman Picasso" in London
The Morgan Library & Museum announces new appointments
Lisson Gallery opens exhibition of works by Otobong Nkanga
Decorative Arts Trust Publishing Grant recipients announced
Major exhibition provides an historical, social, political, and personal examination of breathing
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