It’s okay that you’re not who you thought you would be

boys are nice to look at but?? is it really worth it sis

Little louder for the fuck boy in the back.

lol u ever get tired of having to pretend to react to shit? “omg how do u feel now that ur abt to graduate!!” im uhhhhhh shitting my pants Margaret im great

Art forgery is the best crime tbh. It requires absolutely incredible artistic talent, technical skill, and attention to detail to make convincing fakes. Does anyone get hurt from it? No! The only people who suffer for it are the extremely wealthy who want the prestige of having original paintings in their own homes. It’s full of international intrigue and mystery. Perfect.

Also… art forgers like van Meegeren sometimes become a kind of folk hero. A swindler, sure, but a gentleman’s swindler.

I liked this guy’s story, Mark Landis, who conned several dozen museums into displaying his forgeries, but when the FBI came after him they couldn’t do anything because he had always given them away as donations. They said if they could have found that he’d ever taken anything in exchange they would have prosecuted him, but all he wanted was get to out of the house and meet people.

“The first painting Landis “donated” was a copy of a work by Maynard Dixon, an artist well-known for his paintings of cowboys and Indians. It started as impulse, Landis says, but then “everybody was just so nice and treated me with respect and deference and friendship, things I was very unused to — I mean, actually not used to at all. And I got addicted to it.”” And it looks like all his forgeries are done with cheap materials, like markers and Hobby Lobby frames.

Just … the levels of con there, the fake photos and … wow. That’s incredible. 

Heroes

Listen… this is essentially performance art.  He has created his own unique artwork.  This man is an artist and frankly his pieces deserve a place in galleries/museums just as much as Ernst’s stuff and I think Ernst would agree with me

I’m an artist myself and I understand how talented you have to be to do something like this, but ya’ll are wild. You are putting a criminal on a pedestal. Tumblr is wild, I don’t get you.  

I am tired and I want to hold hands

i can’t believe we kinkshamed michaels into a product recall

This isn’t what you think it is. It’s better.