Culture -- 4 days ago
The art of the steal: Orlando Whitfield on friendship, fraud and fine art
Orlando Whitfield, former friend and business partner of art scammer Inigo Philbrick, reflects on their friendship, on Philbrick’s character – and on the bizarre nature of the industry that made his crimes possible in the first place
Words: Joseph Bullmore
Collages: Claudine Derksen
The best thing about art is that it’s not necessary. The worst thing about art is that it’s not necessary. The art market knows that we don’t need to buy these things, these objects, these artefacts: works that could be beautiful, ugly, important, insignificant, honest, bullshit, good-natured, cynical – it doesn’t really matter, at a certain level.
