The Fbi Raids the Bascat Exhibit

The director of a basquat exhibit was fired after the fbi raided the exhibit and confiscated all the paintings, which were clearly fake. Woll: The interesting subtext to all this is that for most contemporary artists, modern and contemporary artists, up until relatively recently, none of these controversies would ever happen. "I think my reading there had been some other dust-up over the recent past," he says.