THE O’KEEFFE FIASCO

The controversy over the authenticity of a set of watercolors purported to be by Georgia O’Keeffe is the biggest scandal in years to hit the National Gallery of Art. “Whether a grand deception or just a garage-sale dream gone wrong, it never should have happened. The warning signs were there from the start, but they were swept away by a tsunami of money and wishful thinking.” – Washington Post