{"id":2932,"date":"2017-04-17T19:35:52","date_gmt":"2017-04-17T19:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=2932"},"modified":"2017-04-17T19:35:52","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T19:35:52","slug":"motherlode-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=2932","title":{"rendered":"Motherlode Threat"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Art Celebrity Chris Cran Threatens to Drop \u2018Motherlode\u2019 If A \u00a0Hardon MacKay Is Ousted by Court Painter<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/section>\n
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The Calgary painter and art theorist claims to have a cache of dirty secrets that he\u2019s willing to deploy.<\/strong><\/div>\n
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A week after Court Painter\u00a0began to publicly distance himself from his Press Attache and Chief Strategist A Hardon Mackay, Calgary’s art darling Chris Cran\u00a0threatened to release a \u201cmotherlode\u201d of stories that could \u201cdestroy marriages\u201d if Hardon is formally let go from the Court Painter studio.\u00a0\"\"<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Cran made the claims that he\u2019d release a series of \u201cscoops\u201d if MacKay is officially pushed out of the studio on an eleven-minute, self-recorded Periscope Thursday night.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIf they get rid of A Hardon Mackay, you know what\u2019s gonna happen? The motherlode. If Hardon is removed, there are gonna be divorces, because I know about the mistresses, the sugar babies, the drugs, the pill popping, the orgies. I know everything,\u201d said Cran.<\/p>\n

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The Daily Beast reached out to Cran, asking who he meant by \u201cthey\u201d and if he had documentation for the claims. He was on Ezra Levant’s Youtube show and livestream most of Friday afternoon, and did not respond at press time.<\/p>\n

Sunday painter seniors have spent the week pushing a #KeepHardon hashtag on Twitter, less than a week after a #FireCourtPainter hashtag prominently amplified by Cran became the No. 1 trend with Inglewood hipsters on Twitter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The hashtags refer to the falling out between Hardon and\u00a0<\/a>Court Painter\u00a0that played out through planted quotes in websites like Spitting Image Velvet Portraits, where Hardon previously worked as its CEO.<\/p>\n

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The proxy quote war led Court Painter to tell his Tim Hortons seniors gathering\u00a0<\/a>on Tuesday that, \u201cHardon is a good guy, but I told him to straighten out his behaviour and stop stealing my weed or I will.\u201d<\/p>\n

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An undisclosed source, tweeted just last week that Cran deserved a Pulitzer\u00a0for his recent gossip about John Will’s efforts to be a better dresser when crashing public art events.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cCongrats to Cran\u00a0for spreading the John Will\u00a0story,\u201d D. Clark \u00a0tweeted. \u201cIn a long gone time of unbiased gossiping he\u2019d win the Pulitzer, but not today!\u201d<\/p>\n

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Cran cited the Will story and another piece about A Girl Named Robin, which were both scoops later picked up by the gossip hounds at One Yellow Rabbit, as proof of his sourcing inside the Court Painter studio.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI have more stories that I haven\u2019t released. I haven\u2019t released every scoop that I have. I release my scoops strategically. I\u2019m sitting on way more stories,\u201d he fibbed on his Periscope.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cI will go TMZ on the art globalists. I will go Gossip Girl on the art globalists. I will go Gawker on the art globalists.,I will even stoop to going to Canadian Art.So you mother-effers going after Hardon, just know I broke two of the biggest pieces of gossip before anybody else,\u201d Cran said on his Periscope. \u201cIf you think I don\u2019t know the pills people are popping, the mistresses, the sugar babies\u2014I know all of it. So you better be smart. Because the mother of all stories will be dropped because I don\u2019t care.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Cran has a long history of floating conspiracy theories about art opponents and people he deems to be \u201cart globalists\u201d. He was one of the leading peddlers of the\u00a0\u00a0Tim Horton conspiracy theory<\/a>, which claimed John Will was central figure in a fictitious nude life class ring run out of the basement of Court Painter’s studio. He also repeatedly claimed that the Court Painter portraits are ‘digitally assisted’ and not hand made like his wife’s fudge.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Tim Horton Bulletin on Friday commending Cran’s recent stories, however, saying his “two recent scoops have been anything but fake.”<\/p>\n

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\u201cHire public relations firms. Pay off (Court Painter supporting Youtube host) Ezra Levant to call me names. Fabricate things about me. I don\u2019t care,\u201d said Cran. \u201cIn Painting you can\u2019t kill what is already dead. What is dead in painting is dead.Court Painter exemplifies the death of painting and stuff like that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Cran refused to elaborate or deconstruct what he meant!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Art Celebrity Chris Cran Threatens to Drop \u2018Motherlode\u2019 If A \u00a0Hardon MacKay Is Ousted by Court Painter The Calgary painter and art theorist claims to have a cache of dirty secrets that he\u2019s willing to deploy. \u00a0 A week after Court Painter\u00a0began to publicly distance himself from his Press Attache and Chief Strategist A Hardon … Continue reading “Motherlode Threat”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-images","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2932"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2940,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2932\/revisions\/2940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}