Well, and how about this: What if the artist friend in the original
     question was Andy Warhol (alright, he's dead) or is Jeff Koons?

     John Handley



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Subject: Re: Should there be ethics in art?
Author:  [log in to unmask] (D. Neil Bremer) at INTERNET
Date:    7/21/98 7:06 PM


This is an interesting question.  It almost presupposes that great art
is somehow greater than life.  This isn't a question about ethics in
art.  It is a question about ethics in life.  It is about whether or not
you can morally allow yourself to be a party to fraud, lies, and
deception.

These questions are elements of how we conduct our most personal selves
in a larger society.  Art is merely window dressing in this case. It
seems, in the face of ethics, equally important for me to ask if you
would stand by and watch your friend receive too much change and not
tell the cashier.

Whoaa....fell off my high horse there....

Koko wrote:
>
> ETHICS IN ART
>
> You are a friend of a very famous artist who secretly admits to you that
> the one of their most famous works was in fact
> created by a visitor to their studio.  That by mistake it was sent out
> to the gallery and later sold to a museum.
> As his friend do you keep the secret, or do you expose the work as a
> fraud?  Revealing what you know may result in endless lawsuits and deep
> embarrassment on all sides.  Is the authenticity of a work important in
> our society anymore?
>
> Koko
> World Arts Association
> http://www.artspeak.com
>
> [ email responses: please remove the -1625 ]

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