Looking Back On The Wildest Art Stories Of 2023
about 5 months ago (12/18/2023)
The Wildest Art Stories of 2023 Skip to content A Florida principal was forced to resign for showing sixth-grade students an image of Michelangelo’s “David” (1501–1504) after parents complained that the Italian Renaissance sculpture was “pornographic.” (edit Valentina Di Liscia/ Hyperallergic ) Centuries ago, in 2022, the FBI raided the Orlando Museum of Art and hauled away 25 fake Basquiats that had been on public display as the real deal for five months. Not one to be outdone, the year 2023 brought us a former auctioneer confessing to forging the works and selling them for cash out of the trunk of his car in a parking lot, the Florida institution accusing its former director of plotting the whole thing for personal gain , and — wait, there’s more! — the ex-director claiming the whole thing is a ploy to scapegoat him for the board’s misdeeds, including eliciting a false confession from the repentant forger.