Richard Dorment, Men's Health Journalist Profile

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I Went to Surf Camp With My Daughter. We Both Returned Stronger.

2 weeks ago | menshealth.com | Richard Dorment

IT WAS RIGHT around the time that the third seven-footer in a row crashed on top of me and my 11-year-old daughter cruised by on the follow-up, low on her board and totally in control, smiling and waving at me, sweet as sunshine, that I realized that I was okay with being bad at surfing. To be fair I’d never really done it.
Brunello Cucinelli rivela le sue strategie di longevità e benessere

1 month ago | menshealth.com | Richard Dorment

Quando si superano i 70 anni, sono tanti i cambiamenti fisici a cui ci si deve abituare: la forza della presa diminuisce, l’equilibrio e la stabilità si riducono e ti ritrovi ad abbandonare le abitudini di sempre. Questo discorso non vale per Brunello Cucinelli, il magnate della moda che, a 71 anni, sembra non avere età.
This Resort in Chile Will Make You Love Skiing Again

Oct 9, 2024 | menshealth.com | Richard Dorment

BEFORE I GET into all the reasons that Ski Portillo in Chile’s Valparaíso region belongs at the top of any adventure-travel bucket list, I want to make one thing clear: there are no chili bread bowls or $25 chicken fingers in the lodge cafeteria. There are also no après-DJs umsk-umsk-umsk-ing in a booth emblazoned with the logo of an unpronounceable vodka, or DMV-long lift lines, or heated (sweaty!) gondolas whisking you to the summit, or a whole lot of clear trail markers once you’re up there.
Andy Warhol: The extraordinary story of the $100m art fraud committed by the artist’s foundation

Jan 13, 2024 | independent.co.uk | Richard Dorment

This excerpt documents the bombshell moment when, through his lawyer Brian Kerr, Joe Simon uncovered the scale and scope of criminal wrongdoing by the Andy Warhol Foundation and Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board. My initial investigation focused narrowly on whether Warhol’s 1965 series of Red Self-Portraits were authentic, as Simon, who owns one of the paintings believed, or worthless ripoffs that had nothing to do with Warhol.
Told a masterwork is a fake, one man tries to prove his Andy Warhol is real

Jan 10, 2024 | postbulletin.com | Chris Hewitt |Richard Dorment

Art-world chicanery meets true crime in Richard Dorment's breezy, absorbing "Warhol After Warhol."That title has a double meaning. It refers to the complicated estate that pop artist Andy Warhol left when he died in 1987, one valued in the tens of millions. It also hints that, because of his working methods (especially silk screening) and his casual approach to pieces that were attributed to him, new works often pop up and need to be authenticated, long after Warhol's death.
Keeping It Real

Jan 3, 2024 | airmail.news | Richard Dorment

When I first became tangled up in the issue of Joe Simon and Red Self-Portrait, the Andy Warhol silkscreen he owns, it wasn’t because the Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board denied the painting’s authenticity. What provoked me to act was their refusal to reveal the reasoning behind the decision.
Review: Told a masterwork is a fake, one man tries to prove his Andy Warhol is real

Jan 2, 2024 | sacbee.com | Richard Dorment

Art-world chicanery meets true crime in Richard Dorment's breezy, absorbing "Warhol After Warhol."That title has a double meaning. It refers to the complicated estate that pop artist Andy Warhol left when he died in 1987, one valued in the tens of millions. It also hints that, because of his working methods (especially silk screening) and his casual approach to pieces that were attributed to him, new works often pop up and need to be authenticated, long after Warhol's death.
Told a masterwork is a fake, one man tries to prove his Andy Warhol is real

Dec 28, 2023 | startribune.com | Chris Hewitt |Richard Dorment

Art-world chicanery meets true crime in Richard Dorment's breezy, absorbing "Warhol After Warhol." That title has a double meaning. It refers to the complicated estate that pop artist Andy Warhol left when he died in 1987, one valued in the tens of millions. It also hints that, because of his working methods (especially silk screening) and his casual approach to pieces that were attributed to him, new works often pop up and need to be authenticated, long after Warhol's death.
Told a masterwork is a fake, one man tries to prove his Andy Warhol is real

Dec 28, 2023 | startribune.com | Chris Hewitt |Richard Dorment

Art-world chicanery meets true crime in Richard Dorment's breezy, absorbing "Warhol After Warhol."That title has a double meaning. It refers to the complicated estate that pop artist Andy Warhol left when he died in 1987, one valued in the tens of millions. It also hints that, because of his working methods (especially silk screening) and his casual approach to pieces that were attributed to him, new works often pop up and need to be authenticated, long after Warhol's death.
Warhol after Warhol: Power and Money in the Modern Art World

Nov 1, 2023 | literaryreview.co.uk | Richard Dorment |Julian Spalding

These are two very different books, and each shines a light on different aspects of the art world. One focuses on a single case in which the author was tangentially involved from the beginning; it reveals much about the power of money in the art world, as well as its opacity and deceptions.