More art theft
Apr. 1st, 2008 07:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
likethebeerA man named Larry Salander in NYC got himself into a bit of a pickle trying, apparently, to create a market for Old Masters. The interesting thing is that I read two stories about this: one, a point-by-point accounting of the troubles; and another from a person who has met Larry Salander. The first article made me wonder about the man's morality, and the second one made me feel more generous to Salander (and made me question the objectivity of the writer). Both are interesting.
Where is the real answer? Did the man get in over his head in a Quixotic campaign to fight against cultural forces? Or did he intentionally defraud dozens of people? I don't know, if I ever did.
By the way, both articles are not short. The first one is 11 web pages, although I was riveted. The second one was originally printed on 5 pages.
Long and short, Larry Salander, in a grand, overreaching ideal (that's the 2nd article's interpretation oozing into my interpretation, there) lost (or stole?) about $100 million of others' money (most were richer than we'll ever know), and did things with others' art, in, I think, speculation on certain art works that he wanted to sell. Unfortunately, as a result, a gallery that was highly praised in NYC was closed. And I still don't know what happened to some of the art.
Salander has a problem w/Jeff Koons and Basquiat. I say he should have looked at David Wojnarowicz for "contemporary" art, that's really fricking good.
Where is the real answer? Did the man get in over his head in a Quixotic campaign to fight against cultural forces? Or did he intentionally defraud dozens of people? I don't know, if I ever did.
By the way, both articles are not short. The first one is 11 web pages, although I was riveted. The second one was originally printed on 5 pages.
Long and short, Larry Salander, in a grand, overreaching ideal (that's the 2nd article's interpretation oozing into my interpretation, there) lost (or stole?) about $100 million of others' money (most were richer than we'll ever know), and did things with others' art, in, I think, speculation on certain art works that he wanted to sell. Unfortunately, as a result, a gallery that was highly praised in NYC was closed. And I still don't know what happened to some of the art.
Salander has a problem w/Jeff Koons and Basquiat. I say he should have looked at David Wojnarowicz for "contemporary" art, that's really fricking good.
