Art forgers are more famous than some of their artistic predecessors, the original Masters, for the reason that they are not only wealthy individuals but they have managed to scam the art world by introducing fake art around the world. The fake art market is reportedly worth, $5 billion and it’s on the rise.
A number of art forgers have been arrested recently but it hasn’t put a stop to the fraudulent art that is fooling the public and the expert dealers who flock in their thousands to art fairs and galleries around the world.
From 23 January until 7 February, visitors to London’s V&A Museum will see more than 100 objects – including forged versions of paintings and sculptures which if genuine, would be worth over £10m. Forgeries by John Myatt, Robert Thwaites, John Andrews and Ashley Russell and Shaun Greenhalgh.
Fake forger Greenhalgh faked a 3,300 year old Egyptian statue. Even the Art Institute of Chicago were fooled by British forger, Greenhalgh, reportedly paying $125,000 for a ceramic sculpture according to the BBC. The art world then moves swiftly on the the TEFAF, in the dutch city of Maastricht. Maastricht is home to the world famous TEFAF, (the world’s leading Art & Antiques Fair). During TEFAF which is held from March 12th – March 21st 2010, you will have a chance to view and buy paintings from Rubens to Bacon, Banksey to Warhol as well as sculptures and objects from the applied arts. However most of the art world is crawling with secret police and FBI agents who are on high alert due to prolific increase in the number of fakes and forgeries circulating the globe. The FBI estimates that the market in stolen art is worth around $5 billion. Maastricht received another blow after all the scandal regarding the alledged Maastricht politicians expensesscam recently, when Mayor of the city for the past 8 years, Gert Leers was forced to step down from his position. In January 2010, he resigned from office after an affair concerning a holiday villa project in Byala, Bulgaria. Reportedly diverting European funds from official projects for his own gain. It comes in a time when the city is trying desperately to re-brand itself out of it’s negative business climate image. According to the Dutch News, Leers’ problems began when he bought a villa in the Marina Black Sea Riviera development project in 2006 for €220,000. The project soon ran into trouble and it later transpired the villa was not in his name. (more…)
The formation of the European Union (EU) is the ‘blueprint’ being used to construct the North American Union (NAU). In multiple acts of treason, allegedly the US government is illegally creating the NAU by using secret meetings and deceptive double-speak to hide their ‘INCREMENTAL STEALTH’. They are making MASSIVE changes to the bureaucratic-administrative-regulatory laws by calling them ‘HARMONIZATIONS.’ What they are doing is re-writing the legal regulatory law to the benefit of, by, and for the corporate elite, which is . . . classic fascism. Just before he died of cancer, film director, Aaron Russo gave this open interview in which he explains the truth about everything. Aaron Russo interview(more…)
So the ultimate question remains.Q: Do we on earth have enough resources and technological understanding to create a society of such abundance, that everything we have now could be available without a price tag, and without the need for submission through employment ?(more…)
An interview with the late Aaron Russo who speaks openly about the injustices and real criminality in the world today. The real criminals, the banks and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
You have to ask yourself a question. Would Aaron Russo, a man, who is diagnosed with cancer, who knew he was going to die, make up such a story?
GOOD, which made its world premiere at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, stars Viggo Mortensen in an extraordinary change-of-pace role as he plays John Halder, a good, decent individual with family problems. (more…)
Art forgers are more famous than some of their artistic predecessors, the original Masters, for the reason that they are not only wealthy individuals but they have managed to scam the art world by introducing fake art around the world. The fake art market is reportedly worth, $5 billion and it’s on the rise.
GOOD, which made its world premiere at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, stars Viggo Mortensen in an extraordinary change-of-pace role as he plays John Halder, a good, decent individual with family problems. 
