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In 1981, the Sofia Imber Contemporary Art Museum in Venezuela bought an original painting by Henry Matisse for $400,000 from a New York art gallery. The painting, called 'Odalisque in Red Pants', was painted in 1925 and was one of the jewels of their collection. However in 2003, the museum discovered that the Matisse painting hanging from their walls was a fake: at some point a thief had switched the original painting on their wall with a forgery and  then stole the original. Rita Salvestrini the director of the art museum stated that the switch must have been carried out by an insider. Her argument behind this was that the way the museum was monitored it meant that a switch could not have been carried out very easily. The painting was identified as a fake when differences were noticed. The forgery had a shadow painted behind the woman whilst the original did not. Also the number of green stripes painted beneath the woman in the original was one more than in the fake. The pro...

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From Monday morning most of us are already looking forward to the weekend. As the days pass by and the weekend gets closer the excitement begins to build up and up. But how many times have you been in that situation where the weekend begins and you are completely stumped for ideas. Payday seems far away and you suddenly start to panic and think “ How am I ever going to have a good weekend when I have no money?” Well there is no need to start freaking out there are plenty of things you can do in order to have a fun and inexpensive weekend. Here are a few suggestions.