NYT: "She Thought Lady Gaga Bought Her Art. Then Things Got Strange."

[PartySick 159,756]

21 minutes ago, bionic said:

I don't really have any sympathy for the 'Artists choose carefully who they want their collectors to be in order to build their market in the right way' notion

 

Sad that she was basically a victim of fraud but she DID get paid

 

If she really cared about the 'no resale within 5 years' thing it would've been contractual rather than basically an off the cuff comment after the sale was agreed and plans were arranged for exchange

I guess it's just common practice among art collectors and since she assumed it was Gaga, an artist, she thought customs would be respected  

[Nite 5,537]

Honestly I just thought it was funny that the impersonation seemed to be on a facebook/X "my mom knows her cleaner" account level and still seemed to work or she didn't care enough to double check  I'd never heard about the no reselling practice before

[salty like sodium 1,813]

1 hour ago, PartySick said:

Did you read the article  

It was a gallery owner from Hong Kong catfishing as Gaga. The artist's dad saw her painting in an auction post on Instagram and she reached out to Bobby who told her it wasn't Gaga to begin with.

Then she goes on about artists being able to control who owns their work.

what confuses me is why would someone pretend to be lady gaga to buy a painting 

[River 116,081]

51 minutes ago, PartySick said:

@River

[vanna shintuyu 10,721]

My eyes almost flew out of my head when I saw her name. I used to live with an artist with the same name a while ago. I checked out her IG and she's a different person unfortunately. Her work is really cool though.

https://www.instagram.com/emma_webstah/?hl=en

[Oriane 20,918]

Yeah I'm a bit confused about the issue. If I could sell paintings for $55,000, you can bet I wouldn't give a f*ck whether it's resold, gifted, put in exhibitions or whatever, as long as I still get credited as the artist. If you own something, then you should be able to do whatever you like with it.

[hamartia 1,193]

I would not at all be surprised if Gaga's real email address is something like that lmao  [email protected] 

[27monster27 12,983]

Spoiler

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3 hours ago, TheMontebello said:

I want to know which one of us is rolling in cash to spend 55k in a painting

Floppy.

 

[howsAnnie 411]

I'm still a bit confused about what the actual damage is in this case, BUT: Have you guys checked out the art?? Emma Webster's work is quite impressive, actually. So thank ü for sharing! 

[monstertoronto 10,028]

The article says the artist is looking to retrieve the painting. Is she going to refund the $55,000? I do understand that artists want to “curate” who collects them for clout and reputation reasons, but really if you sell something and accept the compensation that you priced it at, it’s not really yours anymore. 

[dynamite 58,144]

If someone gave me 55k for a painting they could do coke off it for all I care 

[dynamite 58,144]

4 hours ago, hamartia said:

I would not at all be surprised if Gaga's real email address is something like that lmao  [email protected] 

Kindnesskween86@yahoomail 

Edited June 29 by dynamite