The E-Sylum:  Volume 8, Number 15, April 10, 2005, Article 17

UPDATE: MONEY ARTIST J.S.G. BOGGS

The "Noney" notes are reminiscent of the work of money
artist J.S.G. Boggs. I exhibited my collection of Boggs
works at the 2004 ANA World's Fair of Money in
Pittsburgh last summer. I called Boggs just before the
show. He had been scheduled to be in town that week
for an event at Carnegie-Mellon University, but was unable
to make it. He'd been involved in a car accident and
shattered his femur. He was in pain and undergoing
physical therapy.

Although Boggs hasn't been active in numismatic circles
in recent years, he has been busy. He spent a lot of time
living in Germany, and was commissioned to do a large
work at Babson College in Massachusetts.

>From a Babson press release: "JSG (just some guy) Boggs,
known as the “Money Artist”, will officially unveil his new
digital artwork entitled, All The World Is A Stage, at Babson
College Friday, March 26th, 2004.

The massive 12#39; X 22#39; archival panel weighs over 700 pounds
and took five people and a hydraulic lift to move into its final
resting place in Babson#39;s Richard W. Sorenson Center for the Arts.

Boggs made Babson#39;s student lounge area his home for three
years because he likes to take in the environment and culture of
the people that inhabit the space. His "office" was piles of empty
print cartridges, numerous computers, printers and scissors."

"The official unveiling of JSG Bogg#39;s All The World Is A Stage
is at Babson College, the Wellesley, Mass. business school that
commissioned the work. All The World Is A Stage perfectly
embodies a famous quote from Publius Syrus (42 B.C.), “Money
alone sets all the world in motion.”

"The work, purchased at a cost of $250,000 with private funding,
joins other prominent public collections that include the Museum
of Modern Art, NY, The British Museum, London, the Smithsonian,
Washington, D.C., The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, IL, among
many others."

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  Wayne Homren, Editor

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