Interview of author of new book on "suicide" of political artist Mark Lombardi on Who What Why.

[Peter Lemkin]

I never heard of this guy before. The timing of his "suicide" on the heels of the 2000 election is telling.
I Just ordered this book and here is an interview with the author Patricia Goldstone on Mark Lombardi's life, art, and suspicious suicide.

http://whowhatwhy.org/2015/12/04/the-mys...revealing/

Thank you for this. I'd never heard of him. Smells like an all-too-common CIA snuff-out. He had had a run in with the Bush gang and was VERY political and being paid attention to as an artist....a bad combination!...throw in being trained in political research by someone who knew about BCCI and Kossoggi and you have a volatile mix...perhaps deadly! Very interesting. The book is now on my 'list'.

In the fateful month of March 2000, shortly after opening a hugely successful show in New York that unveiled the more nefarious financial connections of Presidential candidate George W. Bush, the hugely ambitious Conceptual artist Mark Lombardi was found hanged in his studio, an apparent suicide. With museums lining up to buy his work, and the fame he had sought relentlessly at last within his reach, speculation about whether his death was suicide or murder has titillated the art world ever since. Lombardi was an enigma who was at once a compulsive truth-teller and a cunning player of the art game, a political operative and a stubborn independent, a serious artist and a Merry Prankster, a metaphysicist if not a scientist.

Lombardi's spidery, elusive diagrams describing the evolution of the shadow-banking industry from a decades-old alliances between intelligence agencies, banking, government and organized crime, may have made him unique in art history as the only artist whose primary subject, the CIA, has turned around and studied him and his art work. Exhaustively researched, this is the first comprehensive biography of this immensely contradictory and brilliantly original artist.