"In 2016, the actor Alec Baldwin sued Ms. Boone, saying she had defrauded him by promising him one painting by Mr. Bleckner, but then providing another, similar Bleckner painting with the same name. Mr. Baldwin’s case was eventually settled... In the tax case, Ms. Boone was charged with filing false returns.... [Boone's lawyer] told the judge that she committed her crimes 'not because she was greedy, but because she was frightened.'... [Prosecutors] cited the many personal expenses Ms. Boone had falsely claimed as business deductions, including $793,003 used to remodel her Manhattan apartment, beauty salon purchases of $24,380, nearly $14,000 on products from Hermès and more than $5,000 on items from Louis Vuitton.... 'It’s brazen, it’s deliberate, it’s extensive and it’s clear that it was motivated by greed.'"
From "The Art Dealer Mary Boone Is Sentenced to Prison for Tax Fraud" (NYT). Boone got a prison sentence of 2 1/2 years.
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Calling the 1980s an "art boom" is something of a crime itself.
Art was long dead by the 80s.
"Alec Baldwin sued Ms. Boone, saying she had defrauded him by promising him one painting by Mr. Bleckner, but then providing another"
Wow, not hard to believe that there are others in this world who think AB is a fool.
I predict Mueller will indict Schlump for TAX FRAUD just like how Al Capone was stopped in his criminal tracks. There isn't a dimes worth of difference between Schlump and Capone. Schlump doesn't have a drop of artistic blood in his body. Will get no masterpieces from him. What his money can buy is beside the point. He is worth even one of Althouse's Rats. How did a RAT'$ A$$ become president of the U.S.?
Don't forget your meds this afternoon, Trumpit.
Al Sharpton owed over $4 million in federal income taxes but was never charged criminally.
Like lying to the FBI or Congress this is a selectively prosecuted crime.
Jury nullification should be taught in every civics class.
But the extravagant lifestyle was important for her gallery's reputation! Ergo, business expense.
Calling the 1980s an "art boom" is something of a crime itself.
Art market boom. Big difference, sloppy writing.
AB is a fool
A bigger fool wouldn't have noticed. Maybe his wife did.
Anyone who defrauded Alec Baldwin can't be all bad. This sounded like a passage from Bonfire of the Vanities.
Taxes are for the little people.
Michael Jackson is alive! And going to jail?
She should draw up a two and a half year reading list.
But she was a Boone to the art market.
I've known artists too sensitive to pay their rent.
"I wasn't greedy - I was frightened."
I'll have to use that sometime. Maybe my next IRS Audit.
I wondered what was meant by macho neo-expressionism. I found an article although I am a woman and stepped out of my boundaries. The same transgressions were done by macho women in the Fifties but this complicated the expectations of the Jungian macho males who read a book by a man named Joseph Campbell. The book said women were more primitive so only men could embody the universal narrative that women were. Because look at the pictures of DeKooning. There are staring eyes and prominent breasts. Only a man would dare confront that creature, a woman. A woman would not dare. She had to support the man while he dared. And also he had to be white. And he threw paint at the canvas to prove he was not gay. So although the tenses don't match and the style is high school, having ideas and being able to write clear English is not needed for explaining art these days. But throwing words at blank spaces and dribbling them about and repeating them in a swirling confucion is some freedom of explanation but progressives aren't meaning what they say often sometimes. So they don't accept it. But if it comes to being trampled on there are women; but if it was women trampling then there aren't women, but, only, justice.
Well stated, wildswan.
When Baldwin smelled the fresh paint, he knew he had been duped.
Really.
The Mary Boone gallery on West Broadway in the '80s really was a must visit kind of place.
It's an overtly expressionist form of neo-macho painting.
Tax fraud in the business of fraud?
Pretty soon, we won't need people like Ms. Boone anymore.
The same concept of self-publishing that we saw with eBooks is now happening with paintings.
There are online platforms where an artist can offer his or her works for sale as long as the online platform gets a cut of the money. Sophisticated software matches the esthetic tastes of a potential buyer with paintings he or she might be interested in.
It is a circus so people don't notice the trillions wasted aka cronied away.
Trumpit isn't 100% inaccurate, he is mainly correct, just inaccurate targeting is all.
All in all very useful.
"Her gallery was considered by many to be at, or near, the white hot center of the ’80s art boom. The works she displayed there... were 'seen as slanting heavily toward an overtly macho form of Neo-Expressionist painting.'..."
"In 2016, the act"[Prosecutors] cited the many personal expenses Ms. Boone had falsely claimed as business deductions, including $793,003 used to remodel her Manhattan apartment, beauty salon purchases of $24,380, nearly $14,000 on products from Hermès and more than $5,000 on items from Louis Vuitton.... 'It’s brazen, it’s deliberate, it’s extensive and it’s clear that it was motivated by greed.'"
Sounds like she could be a character from a Tom Wolfe novel.
I am Laslo.
I think Tom Wolfe could be a character in a Laslo comment.
> How did a RAT'$ A$$ become president of the U.S.?
Obama got him elected.
Black Jesus pushed the pendulum to left, and Republican primary voters responded.
Trump is successful
Remaining near 50% favorable
And even if the topic is tax deductions
you choose to talk about Trump
because he owns you.
I remember when I saw wall street, which is generationally closer to American psycho,
$14,000 won't get you much at Hermes.
It gets you a herm.
Excellent comment on the double standard in tax evasion...
I asked my art world daughter if she knew this woman. She knew of her and the artist she works for knows her.
My daughter said there is an enormous amount of money sloshing around in the art world. Some of it is not exactly legal.
She worked for a while in an art gallery in Venice CA where women would come in and write a check for $850,000 for a painting. She knows of a $3 million painting that vanished in shipping.
It has some similarities to the drug world.
But with insurance.
One hopes some artists will go the way of MySpace.
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