http://www.metafilter.com/tags/Nat-Tate Posts tagged with 'Nat-Tate' at MetaFilter. Sun, 01 Apr 2007 17:31:24 -0800 Sun, 01 Apr 2007 17:31:24 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/59927/Happy%2DApril%2D1st <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/75207.stm">The great Nat Tate hoax.</a> 9 years ago, writer <a href="http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth17">William Boyd</a> and singer <a href="http://www.davidbowie.com/">David Bowie</a> (easily two of the coolest persons alive) joined forces to perpetrate one of the most elaborate art hoaxes to date: the "rediscovery" of Nat Tate, American Artist. A Boyd-penned <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1901785017/metafilter-20/ref=nosim/">biography</a> was bombastically presented in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Koons">Jeff Koons' </a> gallery (who wasn't in on the joke)...to be enthusiastically lapped up by NYC's glitteratti. If only they had bothered to check the date... tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.59927 Sun, 01 Apr 2007 17:31:24 -0800 art Bowie Boyd hoax Nat-Tate Skeptic