The court issued the ruling for Jesus Angel Bergantinos Diaz, who is indicted in New York on federal charges of being part of the ring that created, and sold to Manhattan art galleries,
fake art attributed to artists such as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning Franz Kline and Robert Motherwell.
Dana Shutz was notably silent in the debate (an apology letter
attributed to Shutz turned out to be a
fake), but the controversy made several other
art - world professionals also some of the most talked about figures of 2017: Hannah Black, the black Berlin - based artist who penned an open letter to the Whitney demanding the removal and destruction of the infamous painting, and Christopher Y. Lew and Mia Locks, the Whitney Biennial curators who included the painting in the show and defended their decision to keep it there.