SubRant

Episode #50: "Fake-squiat"


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SHOW TOPICS
  • Two show announcements!
  • Storage Whores
  • We see dead people
  • SHOW NOTES
    • 00:10 - Merchandise but no Anniversary Show
    • 01:10 - James and Catherine are aliens
    • 01:25 - New SubRant TikTok!
    • 01:45 - Online video editing software
    • 02:30 - Fake til proven Basquiat?
    • 03:05 - "Chain of Custody" and "Players"
      • Basquiat - (deceased) Artist
      • Larry Gagosian - Art dealer
      • Thad Mumford - (deceased) Screenwriter, 1st owner
      • Storage Unit -Unpaid x30 years
      • William Force - Art/antiquities dealer, 2nd owner
      • Lee Mangan - Retired salesman, 2nd owner
      • Pierce O'Donnell - Lawyer, purchased interest in 6/25 pieces
      • "Mumford's Poem" - Taped on dot-matrix printer paper
      • Lindon Leader - Brand expert, FedEx logo designer
      • Diego Cortez - (deceased) Basquiat Estate Authentication Committee (deceased - disbanded 2012) member
      • Jordanna Moore Saggese - Author "Reading Basquiat: Exploring Ambivalence in American Art".
      • Aaron De Groft - Director & CEO, Orlando Museum of Art
      • Cynthia Brumback - Board Chair, Orlando Museum of Art
      • 06:50 - Trying hard for that "place in time"
      • 07:30 - "One Last Heist" coming soon to a theatre near you! Or, "Ocean's Fail"
      • 09:05 - Chasing the antiquity dragon
      • 10:30 - Perusing the "Cardboard Collection" (video)
      • 11:30 - Provenance (and asking questions) is "off-limits" in Orlando
      • 12:34 - "Sometimes, you shouldn't attribute to malice what can be attributed to incompetence"
      • 13:30 - Orlando, unhinged!
      • 14:15 - Traumatically trapped in Orlando elevator!
      • 14:52 - "Heroes and Monsters" - John Michel Basquiat
      • 15:40 - A "stooge" for with good intentions, or just a stooge?
      • 16:45 - James has a list of critiques
      • 18:02 - Just say "these works may or may not be authentic"
      • 18:21 - Having fun? Spending money? Who cares if it's real or not!
      • 19:00 - Back to the "in-the-style-adjacent" artwork
      • 20:30 - Achieving layering within a "visual collage"
      • 21:00 - Deconstructing Basquiat, again!
      • 23:03 - It's ghoulish to use dead people to authenticate your fakes
      • 24:55 - The Mystery of the 1994 FedEx Logo
      • 27:05 - "Handwriting analysis and poems don't authenticate artworks"
      • 28:20 - Back to Banksy's Instagram archive and end
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        SubRantBy Catherine Lynn & James Fryer

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