Teri Horton's "Who the #$&% Is Jackson Pollock?"
MEMBER SPOTLIGHT:
Did you happen to watch "Anderson Cooper 360" last night on CNN?
If so, you saw Anderson Cooper interview Contact Any Celebrity Member Teri Horton about a painting she bought for $5 at a thrift store that she's now selling for $50 million!
Why? Because she (and many other art experts) believe that her painting is an original Jackson Pollock -- one of the most influential American painters of the 20th century!
I actually interviewed Teri Horton a few months ago, long before Anderson Cooper got his hands on her :)
She's really a great lady and tells a very compelling story about alleged corruption in the high society world of art collectors and art museums.
Teri is a former truck driver with barely a high school education and not much money. She told me she knew absolutely nothing about art or Jackson Pollock (hence the movie's name) until she decided to buy the painting on a whim for $5 at a local thrift store.
Kudos to Teri for not being afraid to go up against the New York art world and for not selling out until she gets a fair price for her painting (recent Jackson Pollock's have sold for more than $100 million!).
In fact, Teri told me she originally bought the painting as a gag gift for a friend. As soon as she got it home, she called her friends to come over and destroy it just for fun because she thought it was so ugly!
Thankfully, one of her friends was an art teacher and had a hunch that the painting might be worth more than $5... more like $50 million!
A new documentary has just come out on DVD about Teri's Jackson Pollock discovery titled "Who the #$&% Is Jackson Pollock?"
So if you're interested at all in art, forensic science, or just a great story, I highly suggest you get yourself a copy.
For more info on the story, check out Anderson Cooper's blog.
P.S. Did I mention Teri Horton is a long-time Member of Contact Any Celebrity? We have only the best!
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Posted by: Andy | June 21, 2007 at 02:50 PM