Creepy.
Donald Judd is a "minimalist" artist who was based in Marfa, Texas. He does boxes. Go figure.
James Alefantis loves Donald Judd and his boxes. Go figure. http://archive.is/WXWbz
Alefantis also mentions Donald Judd in a Kill Room Instagram photo but I can't find it. (But there's a Voat post about it below.)
Donald Judd's daughter is a featured artist at Standard Hotel in West Hollywood. (Q alerted us to the hotel chain.)
Here is the link about Judd's daughter being featured at the hotel (it didn't archive satisfactorily). http://www.standardhotels.com/tagged/donald-judd
Speaking of boxes, anybody wanna "go inside" the Standard Hotel's "box"? Just click on the girl in her underwear making love to pasta on a bed. http://www.standardhotels.com/la/properties/hollywood
Q has connected the Standard Hotel to Adam Schiff implying Schiff's involvement in blackmail pedophilia ring and in the death of the manager of the hotel in the recent helicopter crash. Q also said "What happened at those hotels?" The implication is pedophilia.
Of course Marfa, Texas is where the suspicious death of SCOTUS Scalia occurred.
Here is an older Voat post talking about Donald Judd's connection to Jimmy Comet. https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/1546918
And Marina Abramovic is in this unholy mix. She and James Alefantis are buds with the owner of the Standard Hotels. They're all in pics together. The owner has been in the news for assaulting females recently. And Adam Schiff is friends with the politician who was involved in the West Hollywood death of the young black guy they were messing with and giving drugs to.
Make it stop.
I guess all this wonderful art has to do with money laundering. And you're a square if you like Norman Rockwell.
Did I mention how creepy all this is?
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Are_we_sure ago
There's never been a scintilla of proof of the money-laundering schemes alleged on VOAT--that high prices for modern art are a way of hiding money laundering.
In fact the case I have seen for art involved in money-laudering involve UNDERPRICING THE ART to avoid import taxes or to be able to move large sums across border in physical way----take a $5 million painting to customs and declare it at $200,000, then resell it at its actual value and pocket the cash.
These second type of scheme and indeed the entire art market involves the art actually fetching high prices outside of any criminal scheme.
AngB23 ago
Hhmmmmm.....I thought this was pretty much common knowledge. What better way to launder money than through art where only the elite are invited to private auction houses
“According to the air bill slapped on the crate that arrived at Kennedy International Airport from London, an unnamed painting worth $100 was inside. Only later did federal investigators discover that it was by the American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat and worth $8 million.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/13/arts/design/art-proves-attractive-refuge-for-money-launderers.html
“Although art collectors will pay hefty sums for aesthetic reasons, high art prices and secretive auction sales have also become a prime money laundering vehicle.
Money laundering in the high-end art world happens in two primary ways:”
http://jansentax.com/art-money-laundering/
“Laundering Drug Money With Art”
https://www.forbes.com/2003/04/08/cx_0408hot.html#31bec91866fc
Are_we_sure ago
That confirms the type of money laundering I was talking about, Laundering based on the ACTUAL Value of art and the actual art market.
A. Taking dirty drug money and making it clean B. Undervaluing painting to move large sums across borders.
Note that the Basquiat painting is actually worth $8 million dollars.
What folks on here have talking about is a completely different form of money laundering, IMAGINARY VALUE of art. They are saying there's no way a Basquiat painting could be worth $8 million and the only reason that much money is changing hands is for bribes. They are talking about paying someone $8 million dollars for a painting that is NOT WORTH that amount. It's the opposite of real world art crimes. It's a fantasy.