The news that an American artist plans to give his collection of books and magazines Morgan Library and Museum, it was a lie

Last week ARTinvestment.RU reported that famous American artist Richard Prince (Richard Prince) will present the New York Morgan Library and Museum of its huge collection of rare books and magazines . But that information was wrong - the other day the Prince said that any museum treasures give it its not going to.

First, who told the world a false news, was the correspondent of the London Times, Tony Allen-Mills (Tony Allen-Mills). She immediately picked up the news sites, such as ARTINFO.com and Artforum.com . Prince learned of misinformation, immediately issued a rebuttal. According to him, he has not spoken with anyone about the possible transfer of their collections - not the journalists, not with the Morgan Library and Museum.

Tony Allen-Mills said that the information he got from the interview with Prince, which he gave the magazine Bookforum. The author of the material, Geoff Nicholson (Geoff Nicholson), mentioned that the Prince is in negotiations about the transfer of museum collections. Bookforum has insisted that the artist read an interview before its publication.

representative of Museum and Library Morgan stated that no negotiations had been c Prins.

Material prepared Yulia Maksimova

Source: artnet.com , artinvestment.ru