returns in a new role. He became the narrator in the true-crime podcast “Art Fraud”, which in eight episodes will tell the story of one of the greatest scandals in the American art world. Specifically, it will be about a series of scams that led to the collapse of New York’s oldest gallery, The Knoedler Gallery. The first episode is now available online.
Baldwin’s first role after the tragic accident on the set of “Rust”
The script for the podcast was written by Michael Shnayerson. He is also the author of a reportage created for the legendary “Vanity Fair” magazine about a 17-year-long scam, which began with the fact that one day an inconspicuous woman with a painting under her arm walked over the threshold of the gallery operating since 1846. She informed the employees of The Knoedler Gallery that she had for sale a work created by an abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko. It is worth knowing that, for example, his painting ‘Orange, Red, Yellow’ from 1961 was exhibited in 2012 at Christie’s, where an anonymous buyer then paid 86.9 million dollars for it. It was once the most expensive piece of contemporary art at auction.
Rothko’s fake painting started a long-term collaboration with the fraud, which resulted in the sale of over 40 counterfeit works of art by artists such as Robert Motherwell, Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock. The total of buyers were defrauded into about $ 80 million.
The Art Fraud series is co-produced by Alec Baldwin’s El Dorado Pictures studio, which has partnered with Cavalry Audio and iHeartRadio. was released on February 1 and features never-before-published interviews with the person behind all the fakes and scams –
Interestingly, Alec Baldwin himself has fallen victim to art forgers in recent years. In 2017, he won a seven-figure compensation from the owner of the art gallery, Mary Boone, who sold him a fake painting by painter Ross Bleckner. The New Yorker reported that the actor asked Boone to buy the 1996 painting Sea and Mirror from another collector. When the transaction went through, he began to suspect that he had been cheated. In the lawsuit, Baldwin maintained that when the dealer was unable to buy the original, Blecker painted a copy for her. When the actor asked why the painting looked different, she was supposed to insist that it had been wiped up because the previous owner was a smoker. In the course of the case, Alec Baldwin confronted the artist who admitted to painting the copy, and Boone herself confirmed her involvement in the fraud.
An accident on the set of the movie “Rust”
On October 21, 2021, there was a tragic accident during the rehearsal for one of the scenes for the western “Rust”. American actor Alec Baldwin unknowingly shot two people. Live ammunition was included in the weapon that was to be used as a prop on the set. The 42-year-old cameraman Halyna Hutchins died as a result of a shot in the chest. The second person shot was director Joel Souza, who survived the accident with an arm injury. An investigation is underway, and the Santa Fe police are to find out how a real bullet ended up in a gun that was theoretically controlled by an armorer and director’s assistant.
Source: Gazeta
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