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title: "Aw.  I just learned that J.S.G. Boggs has died. "“I create images…"
date: 2018-10-06
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# Aw.  I just learned that J.S.G. Boggs has died. "“I create images…

*October 6, 2018 · Facebook*

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[https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/27/arts/design/jsg-boggs-dead.html](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/27/arts/design/jsg-boggs-dead.html){target="_blank"}
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Aw. I just learned that J.S.G. Boggs has died.\
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\""I create images that say things and ask things," Mr. Boggs said in the 2013 Discovery Channel documentary "Secret Life of Money." "I take them out into the real world and try to spend them, not as counterfeits, but as works of art that ask us about the nature of money."\
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Law enforcement agencies in several countries took a different view. They regarded Mr. Boggs as a forger. They expressed this opinion, on several occasions, by seizing the notes or putting Mr. Boggs on trial.\
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"They said I was a counterfeiter," an indignant Mr. Boggs told The Associated Press in 1992, when agents in the counterfeiting division of the Secret Service raided his apartment near Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, where he was an artist in residence, and took possession of more than 100 of his artworks. "They don't understand the difference between art and crime."\"\
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[https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/27/arts/design/jsg-boggs-dead.html](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/27/arts/design/jsg-boggs-dead.html){target="_blank"}
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