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#GetSaucedAtSASS Let’s Play a Photo Guessing Game Con Artist or Contemporary Artist?

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Play the photo guessing game prepared for The Society for the Advancement of Social Studies' event on 05/11/2014: SASS Presents: Conspirators and Confusion.

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Let’s Play a Photo Guessing Game

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Artist!Jeff Koons

Famous for making big sculptures of balloon animals

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Con Artist!Frank Abagnale

The real guy behind “Catch Me If You Can”

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Con Artist!Lou Pearlman

The music mogul behind The Backstreet Boys and *NYSNC also ran one of the largest and

longest running Ponzi schemes

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Con Artist!Victor Lustig

Sold the Eiffel Tower. Twice.

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“Artist”!Damien Hirst

England’s richest living artist

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Con Artist!Joseph Weil

aka “The Yellow Kid”

The most notorious con man of the early 20th century

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Con Artist!Kenneth Lay

Played a leading role corporate abuse and accounting fraud

leading to the Enron scandal

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Con Artist!The Hipster Grifter

aka Kari Ferrell

Gawker darling, Brooklyn local, and

pathological liar, circa 2009

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Artist!Thomas Kincaid

Called himself “Thomas Kinkade,

Painter of Light”

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Both!Milli Vanilli

Won a Grammy by posing as singers, though they were

actually lipsynching