"Not even the existence of ArtPrize's $200,000 Juried Grand Prize, awarded to New York City artist Kate Gilmore this year, mollified Moskowitz, who admits to having had three days of "wining and dining and chauffeuring and schmoozing" including meeting with ArtPrize founder Rick DeVos, grandson of Amway Corp. co-founder Rich DeVos.
"The reason for adding the juried prize was to 'create a tension between populism and professionalism,' according to myriad press materials.Though that may be the 'Midwestern Nice' way of saying the juried prize is the only way to ensure batshit conservative art doesn't overtake ArtPrize each year."
...Moskowitz was accredited as a journalist working for Al Jazeera and The Guardian of London, Gaines said.
"We feel that his objectives were politically based, and we were misinformed," he said.
..."I consider myself a relatively nice guy," Moskowitz says early in the piece before describing the DeVos family as "pretty backward," calling Amway a pyramid scheme, describing its vitamin supplement Nutrilite as "nutritionally questionable," and reciting a list of organizations and causes funded by the DeVos Family, including American Enterprise Institute and Focus on the Family.
"It's not clear whether Rick harbors similar sentiments. A quick check of his Twitter suggests he does," Moskowitz wrote.
Gaines said DeVos would not comment on Moskowitz' article.
Moskowitz also took to Twitter to recount his visit to ArtPrize."
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