1.0 link 190180 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jonathan-melber/the-harder-they-con-the-b_b_190180.html "A lot of people in the art world just hate his guts," said director Michael Sladek about Mark Kostabi, the one-time darling of the New York art scene whose meteoric rise in the early 80's was almost as rapid as his total collapse a decade later. Kostabi's recent attempts to reclaim his former glory is the subject of Sladek's documentary Con Artist, premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival this weekend. People despise Kostabi so much, Sladek told me,...

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