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Keith Girard

Artist Revealed Behind Masterfully Faked Pollocks, Koonings, Rothkos

Keith Girard
Pei-Shen Qian, described as a struggling Chinese artist, is the master forger behind one of the biggest scams to sweep the New York City art scene in years, involving more than 80 bogus paintings by modern masters. Alleged works by Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko and Robert Motherwell, were actually painted by the 73-year-old immigrant artist in the garage of his Queens home. Few details about the investigation are known. What is known is mostly contained in a new grand jury indictment of alleged scam mastermind Glafira Rosales, 57. She was arraigned today (Aug 19) in federal court in Manhattan....
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Freer Gallery Hosts Chinese Martial Arts, 3-D Technology Gala

Keith Girard
The Smithsonian’s Freer Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. will transform into a cultural hot spot for the final “Asia After Dark” after-hours event, featuring a night of exploration and discovery into Chinese martial arts and 3-D printing technology. Guests can explore 3-D scanning and printing with experts from the Smithsonian’s digitization program unit and participate in the creation of a 10-foot-tall replica statue of the Freer’s renowned “Cosmological Buddha.”...
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Stars, Guests Gather for Percy Jackson After-Party at 75 Main

Keith Girard
Logan Lerman, Alexandra Daddario and Stanley Tucci, stars of the new movie “Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters,” joined friends for an after-party following the movie’s Hamptons premiere on Sunday (July 28). Among those spotted in the crowd were actor Richard Gere and wife Carey Lowell, Matthew Broderick and son James Wilke Broderick, Star Jones, Richard and Cricket Burns, Michael and Laurie Gelman, Kristine Johnson, Nanette Lepore and Barbara and Meredith Ostrom....
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LPGA Pro Golfer Cristie Kerr Hosts Hamptons Golf Classic

Keith Girard
Cristie Kerr, the 2007 U.S. Women’s Open Champion and 16-time LPGA winner, hosted the 9th Annual Hamptons Golf Classic, a day-long charity golf tournament at the Hampton Hills Golf & Country Club. Real estate brokers Susan and Matthew Breitenbach were honored and The Diamonds in the Rough Foundation was the beneficiary....
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Keith Girard

Keith Girard has four decades of experience as an award-winning reporter, editor-in-chief, and senior media executive. Keith’s career began in Washington, D.C., where he was a reporter for The Washington Post and a contributing editor for Regardie's and Washingtonian magazines. He also worked as a writer/producer in CNN's Washington Bureau and has written one book on the U.S. Marines in the Gulf War.