He Said He Said: Malanga vs. Chamberlain

In today’s NY Times, a story on a lawsuit brought by Gerald Malanga (ex-Warhol studio assistant) against sculptor John Chamberlain. Malanga claims that a painting Chamberlain claims was a Warhol, and sold as such, is a fake, and that it doesn’t even belong to Chamberlain. The painting is “315 Johns.”

Malanga claims “he and two friends cranked out the Chamberlain canvases themselves in 1971 in a studio in Great Barrington, Mass., as a homage to Warhol a year after Mr. Malanga left Warhol’s Factory in Manhattan.”