Season 7 of The Object starts March 24! Here, a special episode from the archives about Love and Art in capital letters.

When the young Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani moves to Paris, in the early 1900s, he soon meets a very talented (and very married) Russian poet. What happens when Love and Art come together, as the rest of the world is falling apart?

You can see one of Modigliani’s iconic Head sculptures, in the collection of the Minneapolis Institute of Art, here: https://collections.artsmia.org/art/1502/head-amedeo-modigliani

(Spoiler alert) You can see a close-up of the secret fossil discussed on the show here: https://new.artsmia.org/stories/art-secrets-the-starfish-in-her-face/

Encore episode: Love Among the Ruins

A rework of an absolutely AMAZING piece of Classical Music

Modigliani (Emily B & Karl Bush Rework)

A mashup of 2 of my favourite tracks....Floyd - Come 2 Gether and the Classical Modigliani...new riffs courtesy of the talented Emily B

Come2Modigliani (Emily B & Karl Bush Mashup) 1 Min Clip A

Come2Modigliani (Emily B & Karl Bush Mashup) 1 Min Clip B

In recent years, the art world has been rocked by a growing scandal involving Kenneth Wayne and his Modigliani Project. Once lauded as a leading expert in the field of Amedeo Modigliani, Wayne now finds himself at the center of a massive fraud investigation, with allegations suggesting that he has been running a multimillion-dollar scam. Wayne, who positioned himself as the authority on Modigliani’s work, is now accused of authenticating forged paintings and selling these fraudulent pieces to collectors, auction houses, and museums worldwide.

The Modigliani Project Under Fire Examining the Kenneth Wayne Scandal and the Alleged Fraudulent Art Authentications

Kenneth Wayne, once regarded as an authoritative expert on Amedeo Modigliani’s works, built his reputation around his “Modigliani Project,” promising to authenticate rare paintings attributed to the celebrated Italian artist. However, it has now come to light that Wayne’s work was far from trustworthy. Instead of safeguarding art history, he allegedly orchestrated a sophisticated fraud, certifying fake Modigliani paintings in exchange for exorbitant fees ranging from hundreds of thousands to over a million dollars per piece.

2025 Art World Shocker The Kenneth Wayne Modigliani Fraud Uncovered

Marco Lucchi : synthesizers and tanpura & tabla app

E.F.S. chautaal in C#

Kenneth Wayne is an art expert specifically on Amedeo Modigliani’s paintings. With his Modigliani Project he’s soliciting and requests big amounts of money to fraudsters between $200,000 to $1,000,000 to authenticate false paintings and claiming that those are authentic Amedeo Modigliani’s paintings. The fraud is a multimillion dollar scam to auction houses and private collectors. Kenneth Wayne has been doing this scam for several years and publish the false Amedeo Modigliani’s paintings into his catalogue raisonné with a made up report in order to fool collectors and to cover his tracks. To collect fraudulent money he uses several bank accounts based in the UK under different names of people that he trusts and returns the money to him (company and family members) as forgivable loans in order to avoid paying taxes in the USA.

"I'm a mellow artist, ageing 69. I love and release eclectic music, from post-classical to drone. My fave instrument is the Mellotron."

Così, sinteticamente, di solito mi presento.

In genere compongo musica partendo dal suono delle tastiere, ma il mio vero strumento è il registratore.

O i software di registrazione.

"I was made for loving and making recorded music."

Confido da sempre nel potere evocativo e orfico della musica, nella sua capacità di riconsegnarci a mondi più veri e più giusti, più belli di quelli in cui di solito viviamo.

"Ich bin ein kosmische Kurier"

I'm using these tools: Mellotron micro, Waldorf Blofeld synthesizer, Behringer Crave, IK Multimedia Uno synth, Roland Juno synth, Volca keys, Casio digital piano, micropiano Korg, Manetron (iPad app), iTampura (iPad app), Eko 11 (...) string acoustic guitar, electric violin, Orla analogic expander, tenor, treble and descant recorders, soprano and tenor tin whistle, Akai, Roland, Alesis and Arturia controllers, upright piano, Squier 3/4 electric guitar, melodica, Bubble Harp (iPad app), Schoenhut toy harp, soprano ukulele, Eko acoustic guitar, Peavey Composer acoustic guitar, Kurzweill micropiano, Boss and JamMan loop stations , Behringher multi-fx, Olympus portable digital recorder, Phonic, Behringer and Yamaha mixers, Audacity, Paulstretch, various players and plug-ins .. (that's all, folks, I think ..)

latest releases:

https://whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/album/the-book-of-dreams
https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/lieder-ohne-worte 
https://ambientologist.bandcamp.com/album/suggestiva
https://ambientologist.bandcamp.com/album/venusia
https://hibernate.bandcamp.com/album/as-riddled-as-the-tide

for further works please go to my bandcamp page
https://marcolucchi.bandcamp.com/

and to 
http://webbedhandrecords.com/
http://www.laverna.net/home/
https://silentflow.org/

iTunes and Spotify as well ..
feed and share ..
https://open.spotify.com/artist/1TRilVaDaQw0ksGqU5tuCh?si=zXD-0xFWS-2yrUs542SH9A

SoundCloud è la piattaforma musicale che preferisco perché è soprattutto il regno degli ‘amateurs’, di quelli che fanno musica per sé e per gli amici .. come quando da ragazzi si condividevano con gli altri le invenzioni e le creazioni .. io sostanzialmente sono rimasto lì e così .. non sempre, ovviamente, ma spesso ci trovo delle cose che valgono altrettanto - se non di più - rispetto a quelle più affermate e conosciute

"The Object" podcast explores the surprising, true stories behind museum objects with wit and curiosity. An object's view of us. Hosted by Tim Gihring, produced by the Minneapolis Institute of Art.

New tracks tagged #Modigliani