{"id":12711,"date":"2012-07-20T09:29:46","date_gmt":"2012-07-20T14:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/?p=12711"},"modified":"2012-07-20T10:16:26","modified_gmt":"2012-07-20T15:16:26","slug":"alfredo-martinez-what-me-embellish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2012\/07\/20\/alfredo-martinez-what-me-embellish\/","title":{"rendered":"~ALFREDO MARTINEZ: what me, embellish . . . ?"},"content":{"rendered":"

ok, maybe just exaggerate, a little bit. tell a little white lie here and there, go to jail for art forgery, you know the regular stuff !!<\/p>\n

JOCKO WEYLAND – who has also been following Alfredo’s colorful exploits forever – wrote in to say that ALFREDO was really only in Chinese jail for about 3 weeks, tops.<\/p>\n

ok. Alfredo and Josh did tell me 3 months – but knowing Alfie – I’ll take Jocko’s timeframe – under serious consideration – as the bonafide version.<\/p>\n

BUT the main point is: he was TRULY in SECRET CHINESE DETENTION, he was terrified to the point of being scared for his life – and he did get deported, sent home on a one way plane ticket, only after the intervention of JOSH HARRIS and BYRON HAYES, and his legs are truly purple, from the knees down – on his first day back.
\nPhotos DON’T lie. <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nALFREDO MARTINEZ, happy to be back in the USA !!
\nhe has just landed in Williamsburg – after being unceremoniously sent back home on a one-way ticket by CHINA.
\nPHOTO: NANCY SMITH. Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY. AUG 19, 2010.<\/p>\n

JOCKO WEYLAND actually went to China – while Alfredo was there and wrote up the experience for VICE !!<\/p>\n

hey, it’s a rainy day – what else do you have to do: ‘RAW CHINA – A Day With ALFREDO MARTINEZ at the Military Museum’ – by JOCKO WEYLAND – in VICE, “published 3 years ago” – that would be ca. 2009 !!
\n<\/a><\/p>\n

just btw: we were all amazed that ALFREDO even got to go to China in the first place.
\nesp after he had done gone and got busted . . . and sent away to the big house for about 2 years (2002 -2004) for his notorious BASQUIAT caper – he tried to pass one off on a convicted drug dealer !! turned art dealer !!
\nthat’ll do it to ya – every time. <\/p>\n

and SO: he was a convicted felon, was he not ??!!!!<\/p>\n

do felons get visas to China ? even as resident guest artists, like they say . . . just asking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ok, maybe just exaggerate, a little bit. tell a little white lie here and there, go to jail for art forgery, you know the regular stuff !! JOCKO WEYLAND – who has also been following Alfredo’s colorful exploits forever – wrote in to say that ALFREDO was really only in Chinese jail for about 3 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12711"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12711"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12716,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12711\/revisions\/12716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}