Art Crime With RJ

I am finally back with the final episode in the Brett Whiteley trilogy, and the first episode of a new series that I will return to sporadically, entitled Art Market Antics. 

This episode discusses the arguably criminal career of Peter Gant, discussing how he links to several fake artworks within the Australian art market. Oh, you thought that three fake Whiteley's would be enough? Unfortunately, it is only the tip of the iceberg. Strap in and get ready for a wild, wild ride. 

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Welcome back to part two of the trilogy for the Whiteley case, one of the most famous alleged forgery cases in the Australian art market. In this episode, I'll be diving into the police investigation and legal battle in the case. It's a longer episode with lots of key testimonies, so strap in for an info dense podcast. Don't forget next month's final episode of the trilogy on the history of one of our main characters, Peter Gant. Hope you'll stick around for all three episodes as they will get very interesting.

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Research Materials: 

Gabriella Coslovich, Whiteley on Trial, https://b-ok.cc/book/5060695/154ee0

The offence of dishonestly obtaining a benefit by deception in NSW - Criminal Law - Australia, https://www.mondaq.com/australia/white-collar-crime-anti-corruption-fraud/962168/the-offence-of-dishonestly-obtaining-a-benefit-by-deception-in-nsw

The High Court Rules the Prasad Direction Is Unlawful, https://nswcourts.com.au/articles/the-high-court-rules-the-prasad-direction-is-unlawful/

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Welcome back to the first of a trilogy that is one of the most famous alleged forgery cases in the Australian art market. In this episode, I'll be covering the journey of three alleged forgeries through the Australian art market. This episode will be a little bit shorter before we step into the slightly longer court case episode next month, ending with a final episode on the history of one of our main characters, Peter Gant, the month after. Hope you'll stick around for all three episodes as they will get very interesting.  

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Research Materials: Gabriella Coslovich, Whiteley on Trial, https://b-ok.cc/book/5060695/154ee0 

Recommendations: 

Made You Look, Netflix - Knoedler Gallery forgery 

The Bold Type, Netflix 

Evil by Design, CBC Podcasts - Peter Nygard podcast series 

Power: The Maxwell's - Ghislaine Maxwell and her father 

Broken: Seeking Justice - Jeffrey Epstein podcast  

All social media under @artcrimeinternational and links available on channel

Trigger Warning: This months video looks at how high profile cases of sexual assault and rape has influenced the work of artists, and what they tried to convey with their artworks. Audience discretion is advised as some topics may be extremely triggering.

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Highlighted Sources (full list available here: https://youtu.be/7xmrRbetIhw):

Darcy O’Brien, Two of a Kind: The Hillside Stranglers, https://b-ok.cc/book/2382031/0ca45e

Suzanne Lacy, In Mourning and In Rage, https://www.suzannelacy.com/in-mourning-and-in-rage-1977

In Mourning and In Rage Performance, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idK02tPdYV0&feature=youtu.be

Lacy and Labowitz, Feminist Media Strategies for Political Performance, http://pzacad.pitzer.edu/~mma/teaching/MS80/readings/lacy.pdf

Sarah Burns, The Central Park Five A Chronicle of a City Wilding, https://b-ok.cc/book/2269610/ba6e13

Lisa W Foderaro, ‘Angered by Attack, Trump Urges Return Of the Death Penalty,’ NY Times, https://www.nytimes.com/1989/05/01/nyregion/angered-by-attack-trump-urges-return-of-the-death-penalty.html

Carolee Thea, Sabine Women, http://www.caroleethea.com/archive/sabinewomanindex.html

Juliet Macur, Rape Case Unfolds on Web and Splits City, https://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/17/sports/high-school-football-rape-case-unfolds-online-and-divides-steubenville-ohio.html

Andrea Bowers, #sweetjane Exhibition, https://www.pomona.edu/museum/exhibitions/2014/andrea-bowers

The Guardian, ‘Child sexual abuse in Catholic church was ‘swept under the carpet’, inquiry finds’ http://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/10/child-sexual-abuse-in-catholic-church-swept-under-the-carpet-inquiry-finds

Thomas G Plante, Sin against the innocents: sexual abuse by priests and the role of the Catholic Church

Laia Abril: the photographer bearing witness to rape, The Guardian, http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/feb/19/laia-abril-epidemic-rape-abuse-photographs

As part of a recurring series on the mechanisms, impacts and possible resolutions for discrimination in the art market, in honour of World Braille Day (Jan 4th) - my inspiration for this month - I'll be looking at how the art market treats visually impaired artists in their museums, how audiences view them, and how institutions are becoming more accessible to visually impaired audiences.

Research Sources:

10 Incredible Blind Painters’, www.everydaysight.com/blind-painters

‘How Eye Disorders May Have Influenced The Work Of Famous Painters’, www.theconversation.com/how-eye-disorders-may-have-influenced-the-work-of-famous-painters-92830

'Ten Ways Vision Impairment Influenced Classic Artists’, www.perkinselearning.org/technology/blog/ten-ways-vision-impairment-influenced-classic-artists

Degas: vision and perception, www.doi.org/10.1177/026461968800600308

Did Edgar Degas Have an Inherited Retinal Degeneration?, www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13816810701351313

Eye diseases changed great painters' vision of their work later in their lives, www.news.stanford.edu/news/2007/april11/med-optart-041107.html

‘Ophthalmology and Art: Simulation of Monet's Cataracts and Degas' Retinal Disease’, www.archopht.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?doi=10.1001/archopht.124.12.1764

Aspects of Monet: a symposium on the artist's life and times, www.archive.org/details/aspectsofmonetsy0000unse

‘Claude Monet, 1840–1926 – UK Disability History Month’, www.ukdhm.org/claude-monet-1840-1926-visually-impaired-in-later-life/

Claude Monet, www.myilibrary.com?id=427197

‘Go Blind from Cataracts?’, www.impressionistarts.com/

Monet's years at Giverny: Beyond Impressionism, www.b-ok.cc/book/2289364/82a118‘

Accessibility of culture and/or inclusion? The blind and visually impaired in Slovenia's museums www.researchgate.net/publication/305651971_Accessibilty_of_culture_andor_inclusion_The_blind_and_visually_impaired_in_Slovenia's_museums_Dostopnost_kulture_in_ali_inkluzija_Slepi_in_slabovidni_v_slovenskih_muzejih

‘Blindness, Art and Exclusion in Museums and Galleries’, www.researchgate.net/publication/36725938_Blindness_Art_and_Exclusion_in_Museums_and_Galleries

‘Blind and Visually Impaired Visitors’ Experiences in Museums: Increasing Accessibility through Assistive Technologies’, www.cgscholar.com/bookstore/works/blind-and-visually-impaired-visitors-experiences-in-museums

‘Evaluation of Touchable 3D-Printed Replicas in Museums’, www.researchgate.net/publication/322579966_Evaluation_of_Touchable_3D-Printed_Replicas_in_Museums

‘Discovering ‘Experience-ables’: Socially including visually impaired people in art museums’, www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02672571003780155

‘Best practice in making Museums more accessible to visually impaired visitors’, www.museumnext.com/article/making-museums-accessible-to-visually-impaired-visitors/

‘Art for the blind: Making Art Accessible to the Visually Impaired’, Medium, www.medium.com/@artsmelange/art-for-the-blind-making-art-accessible-to-the-visually-impaired-efcb4f0cfd37

‘Continue Painting with Vision Loss’, www.visionaware.org/everyday-living/recreation-and-leisure/arts-and-crafts/painting/

‘Democratising art: how the art world is opening up to blind and partially sighted visitors’, www.itsnicethat.com/features/brenda-sjahrial-blindness-art-270718

‘How the Art World is Making Way for the Visually Impaired’, www.mutualart.com/Article/How-the-Art-World-is-Making-Way-for-the-/40BD2955157C32C1

‘People with sight impairment in the world of visual arts: does it make any sense?’, www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09687599.2018.1480261

‘The Role Of Museum And Sensory Design Of Rebuilding Place In Museology’, www.futureacademy.org.uk/files/images/upload/ICRP2019F067.pdf

‘Museum as a Sensory Space, www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/7/3061

Happy New Year! Episode Three is here, handling an actual criminal: the art forger, Shaun Greenhalgh. This episode focuses largely on his life and creations, as well as how the art world allows for this to happen and where changes need to be made to update and strengthen the market. Hope you enjoy the episode, and as always, hit me up on social media for any conversations.   

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Research Materials (In Order of Use): 

A Forgers Tale - Shaun Greenhalgh (search on https://b-ok.cc for EPUB version) 

How Garden Shed Fakers Fooled The Art World, The Guardian, http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2007/nov/17/artnews.artFraudsters who resented the art market, BBC, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7091435.stm

Family of forgers fooled art world with array of finely crafted fakes, The Independent, http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/family-of-forgers-fooled-art-world-with-array-of-finely-crafted-fakes-400718.html

Family con that fooled the art world, Manchester Evening News, http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/family-con-that-fooled-the-art-world-1011291

Fake It Till You Make It, Newsweek, https://www.newsweek.com/fake-it-till-you-make-it-94353

£1m fake statue: family charged, Bolton News, https://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/1346184.1m-fake-statue-family-charged/

Antiques Rogues Show: Update, Bolton News, https://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/1840810.antiques-rogues-show-update/

Antiques Rogues Show: Update 3, Bolton News, https://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/1840818.antiques-rogues-show-update-3/

Con artist set to appeal, Bolton News, https://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/1847838.con-artist-set-to-appeal/

The International Art Markets: The Essential Guide for Collectors and Investors, James Goodwin, https://b-ok.cc/book/1069933/5644b9

The Value of Art: Money, Power, Beauty, Michael Findlay, https://b-ok.cc/book/3323386/fff98d?dsource=recommend

The Orange Balloon Dog: Bubbles, Turmoil and Avarice in the Contemporary Art Market, Don Thompson, https://b-ok.cc/book/4821586/145cf6

The second of a two part series, this video covers a decades worth of research discussing the newly renamed La Bella Principessa's possible journey through Europe to find her original home and its potential journey to the US. This episode gets pretty complicated and highlights some interesting academic spats, so strap in folks and enjoy the episode.  

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Materials used (in order of use):

 Martin Kemp, Living with Leonardo: Fifty Years of Sanity and Insanity in the Art World and Beyond, https://b-ok.cc/book/3704060/42bd53 

D. R. Edward Wright, LUDOVICO IL MORO, DUKE OF MILAN, AND THE SFORZIADA BY GIOVANNI SIMONETTA IN WARSAW, http://www.bbk.ac.uk/hosted/leonardo/Wright_Sforziad.pdf 

Martin Kemp and Pascal Cotte, La Bella Principessa and the Warsaw Sforziad, http://www.bbk.ac.uk/hosted/leonardo/KempCotteLBP.pdf 

Mystery of a Masterpiece Documentary, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VyF7ThqInk Cristina Geddo, Rationale for Authentication, (most likely from Academia.edu) 

Katarzyna Woźniak, The Warsaw Sforziad, http://www.bbk.ac.uk/hosted/leonardo/WozniakBP_2014.pdf 

Katarzyna Woźniak, LA BELLA PRINCIPESSA and THE WARSAW SFORZIAD Circumstances of Rebinding and Excision of the Portrait, http://www.bbk.ac.uk/hosted/leonardo/WozniakBP.pdf 

Katarzyna Krzyżagórska-Pisarek, La Bella Principessa. Arguments against the Attribution to Leonardo, (most likely from Academia.edu) 

Michael Daley, Problems with “La Bella Principessa”~ Part I: The Look http://artwatch.org.uk/archive 

Michael Daley, Problems with “La Bella Principessa” – Part II: Authentication Crisis http://artwatch.org.uk/archive 

Martin Kemp, ERRORS, MISCONCEPTIONS, AND ALLEGATIONS OF FORGERY, http://authenticationinart.org/pdf/literature/la-bella-principessa.pdf 

Michael Daley and Katarzyna Krzyżagórska-Pisarek, Problems with “La Bella Principessa” – Part III: Dr. Pisarek responds to Prof. Kemp http://artwatch.org.uk/archive 

Michael Daley, Fake or Fortune: Hypotheses, Claims and Immutable Facts,  http://artwatch.org.uk/archive 

Michael Daley, Situating La Bella Principessa’s Eye,  http://artwatch.org.uk/archive

Welcome to the first episode from Art Crime International, a content provider run by RJ, that will introduce you to the white collar crime world of Art Crime. 

This episode covers the introduction and initial research into Head of a Young Girl in Profile to the Left, later renamed La Bella Principessa, as a possible Leonardo from the 1490's. A unique portrait, the work undergoes various scientific tests and intense provenance research, but the art world still can't agree on whether it is a Leonardo or not. Join RJ as you unravels the case, taking you step by step through the research material and giving their two cents on whether the academics are as truthful as they seem. 

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Research Materials (in order of use): 

Martin Kemp, Living with Leonardo: Fifty Years of Sanity and Insanity in the Art World and Beyond, https://b-ok.cc/book/3704060/42bd53 

Cristina Geddo, Lumiere Technology Statement (no longer discoverable due to website change - most info still found in next entry) 

Cristina Geddo, Leonardo - The pastel found: a new portrait by Leonardo da Vinci, https://www.academia.edu/12454998/LEONARDO_-_The_pastel_found_a_new_portrait_by_Leonardo_da_Vinci 

Alessandro Vezzosi and Carlo Pedretti, Abstracts from Leonardo Infinito, (no longer discoverable due to website change but available in the actual book) 

New York Times Interview with Silverman, https://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/23/arts/design/23leon.html 

Nicholas Turner, Silverman Report to Silverman, (no longer discoverable due to website change - no alternative atm) 

Martin Kemp and Pascal Cotte, La Bella Principessa: The Story of the New Masterpiece by Leonardo da Vinci, https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bella-Principessa-Story-Masterpiece-Leonardo/dp/1444706268 

David Grann, The Fingerprints in the Paint, The New Yorker, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/07/12/the-mark-of-a-masterpiece 

Marchig v. CHRISTIE'S INC., 762 F. Supp. 2d 667, https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/2470331/marchig-v-christies-inc (believe both court cases are on this website)