Friday, January 21, 2005

Artnet's Surreptitious Correction

A correction on Artnet, italicized below. Isn't this usually done by announcing update, or correction, or something?

"The Project sold Mehretu paintings to Douglas Fogle, acting for the Walker Art Center ($18,000)"

The correction wasn't added until after I e-mailed the Walker and the Walker e-mailed Walter Robinson at Artnet. The Walker e-mail to Artnet is posted below. The Walker hasn't bothered to get back to my own request for clarification.

Artnet, Mr. Robinson, please add "correction notice" to your post.




RE: artnet article A TALE OF AN ART-WORLD LAWSUIT

Hi Walter-

I want to clarify information in your article published on January 18 stating that The Project sold a Julie Mehretu painting to Douglas Fogle. In fact, the Walker Art Center purchased the painting. Walker curator Douglas Fogle was acting on the Walker's behalf. I hope you can run a correction notice on artnet.

Regards,
Karen

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Karen Gysin
Associate Director, Public Relations
Walker Art Center
1750 Hennepin Avenue
Minneapolis MN 55403
612.375.7651/phone
612.375.7618/fax
karen.gysin@walkerart.org

1 comment:

  1. yeah, i know, i state that above. but my doug fogle piece now looks like i didn't read artnet's lawsuit article correctly.

    by the way, i didn't say that fogle had done anything wrong, just looking for some clarification - and i stand by the more general insider trading claim.

    i did forward the post to the walker, their contact info page is extremely vague. i e-mailed the general info address and the webmaster, with a request to forward. never heard anything back.

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