Tag: Jeffrey
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Frieze Week LA: Mobile LED truck displays Epstein emails
Artist Tod Lippy has been following reports about art world figures who maintained friendships and correspondence with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein—even after his crimes were public—and been left with the nagging sense that the consequences have been too mild. Billionaire collector Leon Black still sits on the board of New York’s Museum of Modern read more
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Bard College to Launch ‘Independent Review’ of President’s Ties to Jeffrey Epstein
Bard College has launched an “independent review” of its president’s ties to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein after newly released emails from the Department of Justice revealed close links between the two. The liberal arts college in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, made the announcement in a statement from its board of trustees on Thursday. read more
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In Congress Deposition, Billionaire Collector Les Wexner Claims He Was ‘Conned’ by Jeffrey Epstein
Les Wexner, the billionaire founder of L Brands and a major art collector, gave testimony to the US House of Representatives on Wednesday, in a closed door deposition from his home in New Albany, Ohio. In an opening statement to the House Oversight Committee, which is conducting an investigation into the Jeffrey Epstein case, Wexner read more
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Turner Prize–Winning Artist Tai Shani Ends Phaidon Book Deal Over Leon Black’s Relationship to Jeffrey Epstein
Tai Shani, a London-based artist who won the Turner Prize in 2019, said this week that she was terminating a book contract with Phaidon, the arts book publisher that has been owned by billionaire art collector Leon Black since 2012. Shani cited Black’s connections to disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, including “numerous read more
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Prominent Collector and Navy Secretary John Phelan Rode On Jeffrey Epstein’s Private Plane
John Phelan, a prominent art collector and the current Secretary of the Navy, is revealed to have flown on the private plane of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in 2006, according to a report by CNN. Flight logs note that he flew from London to New York on March 3 of that year. The flight read more
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Bard College President Leon Botstein Scrutinized for Relationship with Jeffrey Epstein
Longtime Bard College president Leon Botstein, who has helmed the influential liberal-arts school since 1975, is under fire after the release of email communications with Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender, that suggest a relationship more personal than had been previously disclosed. On Monday, the New York Times reported that Botstein had read more
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Collector Ronald Lauder Repeatedly Named in Newly Released Jeffrey Epstein Files
Ronald Lauder, a powerful art collector who has patronized institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Getty Trust, and the World Monuments Funds, appears more than 900 times in the set of Jeffrey Epstein–related files that were released by the Department of Justice at the end of January. read more
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Jeff Koons Says He ‘Did Not Have a Relationship’ with Jeffrey Epstein After Appearing in Files
After correspondence between Jeff Koons and Jeffrey Epstein‘s representatives emerged last month via a newly released set of files, the artist distanced himself from the convicted sex offender. Among those files is an email from Koons to Epstein’s assistant, confirming his presence at a dinner held at Epstein’s house, as ARTnews previously reported. Other documents read more
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Jeff Koons Attended Dinner Party at Jeffrey Epstein’s House
Artist Jeff Koons attended a dinner party organized by Jeffrey Epstein in 2013, years after the financier was first convicted of soliciting sex from a minor, according to emails released by the Department of Justice (DOJ) last week. In 2013, Epstein specifically requested that Koons attend a September 4 dinner party at his Upper East read more
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Jeffrey Epstein’s Art World Connections: A Guide
From 1987 to 1994, Epstein was a board member of the New York Academy of Art, a private university in Lower Manhattan focused on graduate-level education combining, as per the Academy’s website, “intensive technical training in the fine arts with active critical discourse.” In 1995, he met Maria Farmer, a 25-year-old aspiring artist and student read more
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Jeffrey Epstein Advised on Leon Black’s Purchase of $115 M. Picasso from Gagosian, Files Show
A newly released tranche of Jeffrey Epstein files from the Department of Justice show that Epstein was personally involved in high-profile transactions between Gagosian gallery and Leon Black, suggesting that Epstein’s role in liaising between the mega-gallery and the mega-collector ran even deeper than was previously known. The new files include many documents related to read more
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ICA San Francisco to Stage Major Public Art Commission by Jeffrey Gibson For Super Bowl LX
While the San Francisco 49ers may have blown their chance at a hometown Super Bowl win, that hasn’t stopped the Bay Area from getting into the festivities. On Thursday, the Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco announced that it will stage a major new public art commission by Jeffrey Gibson. The work—an adaptation of Gibson’s read more
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