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Long-time art critic Richard Dorment reveals the corruption and
lies of the art world and its mystifying authentication process.
Late one afternoon in the winter of 2003 art critic Richard Dorment
answered a telephone call from a stranger. The caller was Joe
Simon, an American film producer and art collector. He was ringing
at the suggestion of David Hockney, his neighbour in Malibu. A
committee of experts called the Andy Warhol Art Authentication
Board had declared the two Warhols in his collection to be fake. He
wanted to know why and thought Dorment could help. This call would
mark the beginning of an extraordinary story that would play out
over the next ten years and would involve a cast of characters
straight out of fiction. From rock icons and film stars; art
dealers and art forgers; to a murdered Russian oligarch and a
lawyer for the mob; from courtrooms to auction houses: all took
part in a bitter struggle to prove the authenticity of a series of
paintings by the most famous American artist of the twentieth
century. Part detective story, part art history, part memoir, part
courtroom drama, Warhol After Warhol is a spellbinding account of
the dark connection between money, power and art.
One year on, new exhibition and book bring back memories of Olympic
and Paralympic summerWith exciting sporting and cultural events
planned to mark the first anniversary of the London 2012 Olympic
and Paralympic Games, members of the public are being offered the
opportunity to own a unique memento of last year's incredible
summer. Renowned artist and illustrator Nicholas Garland OBE has
captured the colour and spirit of the Games in a series of
evocative pictures being exhibited at City Hall and due to be
published in a new book.
For thirty years, until 2015, Richard Dorment was the art critic of
the Daily Telegraph. Writing almost every week it was his job to
introduce, to explain and to criticise for a popular newspaper the
most significant current art exhibitions, mainly in London, but
ranging throughout the UK, and frequently in Paris, Amsterdam and
in New York and Washington. The result is an extraordinary
collection of around a thousand essays, of which he has selected
106, and which distil and commemorate in terms appropriate to a
serious but unscholarly audience, some of the finest and most
memorable cultural events of the last three decades. Ranging from
early prehistoric art of the Ice Age to the performance art of
today, and taking in nearly all the significant art in between, the
book is an astonishingly readable and accessible introduction to
the work of the world's finest artists.
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