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Prolific Forger And Guy Who Caught Him Team Up For Exhibition

Posted 04.01.2012

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It's not easy to be a famous artist, but it also sure isn't easy to paint like one. That is why we are so pleased to hear about the "Faux Real" exhibi...

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Mystery Of Long-Lost Da Vinci Painting Takes Surprising Turn

Posted 11.29.2011

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In 1998, a vellum-sheet portrait sold for £11,400 at Christie's. Today, the bidder who bailed at £11,399 is kicking himself. This painting, thought...

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Art Dealer Arrested For $2 Million Of Fake Art

Posted 11.16.2011

Read More: Jackson Pollock, Forgeries, Vincent Van Gogh, Guggenheim, Fbi, Rothko, Van Gogh, Moma, Art Fake, Art Scam, Monet, Art Crime, Vero Beach, Forged, Matthew Taylor, Florida, Museum of Modern Art, Claude Monet, Pollock, Art Scandal, Fake, Arts News

Is the signature on your Monet a little too legible? It could be a fake; word is they're going around. A former art dealer was arrested in South F...

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Is India's GDP Growth for Real?

Devinder Sharma | Posted 05.25.2011

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Devinder Sharma

Economists often dress up figures to create an illusion of growth. This year's economic growth figures In India have been very cleverly fudged to create a mirage.

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An Environmentalist's View of Alice in Wonderland

Avital Binshtock | Posted 05.25.2011

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Avital Binshtock

In Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, those depicted as being fully themselves tend to convene or live outside, amid the vividly rendered trees, mushrooms, and wild things.

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Shroud Of Turin Reproduced; Italian Group Says Relic Is Man-Made, Fake

AP | By ARIEL DAVID | Posted 05.25.2011

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ROME (AP)-- Scientists have reproduced the Shroud of Turin -- revered as the cloth that covered Jesus in the tomb -- and say the experiment proves the...

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