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Spanish police have successfully uncovered and arrested a group of fraudsters involved in counterfeiting artworks by the renowned street artist Banksy, with widespread sales across Europe and the United States. Two of the detained individuals are suspected of being behind the forgeries in Zaragoza, while the other two are believed
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The billionaire from Russia, Dmitri Rybolovlev, faced defeat in a lawsuit against Sotheby’s auction house. The oligarch accused the auction house of collaborating with Swiss art dealer Yves Bouvier to mislead him into paying inflated prices for four artworks, as detailed in The Guardian’s report. Among them was
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The new, free downloadable tool Nightshade has received an astonishing 250,000 downloads within the first five days of its release, according to an interview with the project’s director, Ben Zhao, by VentureBeat. The tool was created by computer science researchers at the University of Chicago and is designed
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The artworks in question are Picasso’s painting titled “Tête” and Chagall’s piece “L’homme en priere” both of which were stolen in February 2010 from a villa in Tel Aviv. At the time of the theft, the loot was estimated to be worth $900,000 for the two