{"id":31786,"date":"2017-01-25T12:27:12","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T17:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/?p=31786"},"modified":"2017-01-25T13:09:43","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T18:09:43","slug":"alfredo-martinez-flashbeack-feb-2003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2017\/01\/25\/alfredo-martinez-flashbeack-feb-2003\/","title":{"rendered":"~ALFREDO MARTINEZ . . FLASHBACK FEB 2003"},"content":{"rendered":"

ALL HAIL, ALFREDO MARTINEZ . . the notorious Basquiat forger !!<\/p>\n

the other, really relevant group of photos, posted on that . . artnet \/ ‘ART LOVERS NEW YORK – PHOTOS BY NANCY SMITH’ report – from FEB 2003 <\/a> would be the ‘secret’ insider pix concerning the infamous, and entirely TRUE<\/strong> ALFREDO MARTINEZ phony BASQUIAT caper.
\nthe Basquiats were fake, the crime was real, and it landed ALFREDO . . in jail for 2 years.<\/p>\n

\"LIO-MALCA---ALFREDO-MARTINEZ-\"<\/a><\/p>\n

that’s LIO MALCA, second row down, 2nd in from the right-hand side.
\nLio’s the guy who dropped the dime on Alfredo’s little money-making scheme.
\nhe bought a few of those Alfredo-produced faux Basquiats, I can’t remember \/ or never knew (?!!) what made the deal unravel for him, but he got the Feds in on the crime, and they set up a sting, with a pretty girl, and a hotel room. lol !!
\nAlfredo never saw it coming.
\nturned out from Lio’s testimony in court, that he, Lio . . was, or had been, a coke dealer “who had paid his debt to society”.
\nwhich goes to show, the old adage: never rip off a drug dealer – is<\/strong> true.<\/p>\n

\"ALFREDO-MARTINEZ,-JOSH-HARRIS---COURT\"<\/a>
\nthis is the last group of photos on that report, it comes right after the ladies of Gee’s Bend, lol.
\nand, a motley crew if I ever did see one. the Alfredo – Josh Harris band, not the quilters !!<\/p>\n

it was Nov 19, 2002 – the first day of Alfredo’s Phony Basquiat trial, and the crew was out to show their support.<\/p>\n

that’s JOSH HARRIS, founder of Jupiter.com, and later Pseudo.com – and the subject of the Sundance 2009 award winning doc . . ‘WE LIVE IN PUBLIC’ – left, bottom row.
\nALFREDO had a ‘big gun’ \/ ‘shooting’ gallery at ‘QUIET’, the JOSH HARRIS \/ million dollar, downtown hard-core artist \/ millennium party – that sparked ‘WE LIVE IN PUBLIC’.<\/p>\n

JEFF GOMPERTZ, to the right, bottom row . . built the infamous ‘bunker’ hotel, based on Japanese pod hotels, that housed the 99 artists, all wired-up for 24\/7 surveillance – that was the spine of the ‘WE LIVE IN PUBLIC’ doc. <\/p>\n

RIP – that’s my dear friend, MARK ENGER, master silkscreen printer, on the top row – at right.
\nhe’s the drunken ‘cowboy’ in WE LIVE IN PUBLIC’.
\nhe also silk-screened the ‘target’ circles on the Quiet crew’s uniforms.<\/p>\n

the funniest part was, as you might gather from the center photo at the top, ALFREDO . . was a natural<\/strong> when it came to faking Basquiats, it was like he ‘spoke in tongues’.<\/p>\n

they actually marched<\/strong> out some of his fakes in court, and placed them on a wooden artist tripod. they were pretty damn good. too bad their accompanying ‘letters of authenticity’ – were fictional.<\/p>\n

for me, it was quite the day.
\nfirst, all day spent in court, downtown, with this crew, and then . . rushing uptown to catch the Gee’s Bend quilters . . opening – at the Whitney.<\/p>\n

in some sense, both groups, art world . . . outsiders.<\/p>\n

long live the REBELS !!!
\nLONG LIVE THE OUTLAWS !!! <\/p>\n

PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH via artnet \/ ART LOVERS PHOTOS – FEB 2003<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ALL HAIL, ALFREDO MARTINEZ . . the notorious Basquiat forger !! the other, really relevant group of photos, posted on that . . artnet \/ ‘ART LOVERS NEW YORK – PHOTOS BY NANCY SMITH’ report – from FEB 2003 would be the ‘secret’ insider pix concerning the infamous, and entirely TRUE ALFREDO MARTINEZ phony BASQUIAT […]<\/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\/31786"}],"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=31786"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31796,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31786\/revisions\/31796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}