Boris Lurie Art Foundation Challenge Artist Boris Lurie was a lot of things: a Holocaust survivor, a benevolent provocateur, a stock market master, a pioneer of the NO! art movement. What he wasn't, however, was shy about his convictions. So when he died in 2008, he left behind a handwritten will with explicit instructions. Lurie wanted his closest friends to take the $80 million fortune he had amassed in penny stocks over his lifetime and start a foundation in his name, one that recognized and ?nancially supported underappreciated artists who embodied the heart and soul of the NO! art movement. Today, Boris Lurie lives on in New York City through the Boris Lurie Art Foundation and with help from Gertrude Stein – director, art collector and lifelong friend. Stein and sta? curate an extensi

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