Wassmann Foundation

The popularity of a website established for the festival gave rise to a range of new media efforts on the part of collective members including blogs, videos, MySpace, Facebook and later Twitter sites.

[5] In its November 1 issue, the art blog ArtInfo announced: In the first accord of its kind, an American foundation is returning to a German museum works removed from the country.

[6] The Wassmann Foundation is part of a long history of artists using fictional identities in contemporary art, although the practice has not been as widely accepted as the use of pseudonyms in the literary world, where a much richer and more established tradition has prospered.

In the late 1990s, the artist Walid Raad began constructing elaborate fictions chronicling the contemporary history of his native Lebanon, signing his work The Atlas Group and presenting it as a body of collective scholarship.

[7] In 2013 the Brooklyn Museum showed a retrospective of the collective's work and later in the year a silkscreen by the group, "Hooverville," depicting the New York City skyline with hobos, sold at Sotheby's for $425,000.