Thesaurus scandal tar Art Gallery director
Cheney Cowles differ, soft-manieriert owner of the crane gallery bridges and former president of the Seattle Art Museum’s Asian Arts Council, has received nearly a fight in the last week.”A type at an auction of Asian companies have said all art dealers are crooks,” said Cowles. “I went berserk.
For Cowles and other distributors, the ethics of technology trade has been a hot button topic, because an investigation suspended Seattle Times Pioneer Square gallery for selling fake Chinese antiquities.
People, received the gallery, thesaurus arts, as well as legitimate art dealers and passionate collector, indicate that exposure camp fraudulent practices changed the ecology of the Seattle scene.
“The bad side it said, it is the type of tar rest of us,” said Cowles.
Thesaurus Fallout
Thesaurus has been importing cheap reproductions from Hong Kong, “she says as news for customs and then as a sale of old artifacts, sometimes with false certificates stored on the results of scientific examination.
After The Times reported practices, January 26, thesaurus closed shop and eBay closed its auction sites of goods by Thesaurus.
The State Attorney General and Federal Trade Commission have launched investigations in civil and deceptive marketing practices, but at the end of the file Art of memory, consumers are saying is not fraud Art.
In the meantime, Steven Cheung, an economist of the multi-millionaire, Hong Kong, celebrities and former professor at the University of Washington behind thesaurus, and his wife Linda Su Cheung, are now refugees in China, did not appear in U.S. District Court in Seattle Thursday to face tax - tax evasion De booking fees.
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