Warhol After Warhol

Secrets, Lies, & Corruption in the Art World

De: Richard Dorment

Narrado por: Peter Noble

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 neighbor 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 a novel. 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 debating 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, and part courtroom drama, Warhol After Warhol is a spellbinding account of the dark connection between money, power, and art.

©2023 Richard Dorment (P)2024 Tantor

A thriller and mini-art history lesson rolled into one!

This book was equal parts a tale of garden-variety corruption and incompetence (still very thrilling and galling); a history of Andy Warhol’s life and work (and what made him so important and iconoclastic); and a primer on the silkscreening process. I loved all of it! The story is a sad condemnation of the secrecy of the art world, but it is also uplifting and optimistic in that it shows that the truth usually always comes out. Highly recommended!