con artist or contemporary artist?
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Play the photo guessing game prepared for The Society for the Advancement of Social Studies' event on 05/11/2014: SASS Presents: Conspirators and Confusion.TRANSCRIPT
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Let’s Play a Photo Guessing Game
Con Artist or Contemporary Artist?
Con Artist or Contemporary Artist?
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Artist!Jeff Koons
Famous for making big sculptures of balloon animals
Con Artist or Contemporary Artist?
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Con Artist!Frank Abagnale
The real guy behind “Catch Me If You Can”
Con Artist or Contemporary Artist?
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Con Artist!Lou Pearlman
The music mogul behind The Backstreet Boys and *NYSNC also ran one of the largest and
longest running Ponzi schemes
Con Artist or Contemporary Artist?
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Con Artist!Victor Lustig
Sold the Eiffel Tower. Twice.
Con Artist or Contemporary Artist?
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“Artist”!Damien Hirst
England’s richest living artist
Con Artist or Contemporary Artist?
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Con Artist!Joseph Weil
aka “The Yellow Kid”
The most notorious con man of the early 20th century
Con Artist or Contemporary Artist?
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Con Artist!Kenneth Lay
Played a leading role corporate abuse and accounting fraud
leading to the Enron scandal
Con Artist or Contemporary Artist?
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Con Artist!The Hipster Grifter
aka Kari Ferrell
Gawker darling, Brooklyn local, and
pathological liar, circa 2009
Con Artist or Contemporary Artist?
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Artist!Thomas Kincaid
Called himself “Thomas Kinkade,
Painter of Light”
Con Artist or Contemporary Artist?
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Both!Milli Vanilli
Won a Grammy by posing as singers, though they were
actually lipsynching