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Explosive demolition of the O. K. Allen Bridge.

Explosive demolition of the O. K. Allen Bridge.

A bridge in Manchester gets demolished.

A bridge in Manchester gets demolished.

Matthew Cox is an American former mortgage broker from Florida who made millions falsifying documents to make it appear that he owned the properties.

From an orphanage in a small town in France to the heart of the glitterati of Los Angeles and New York, Christophe Thierry Rocancourt is a legend on the imposter scene.

One of Germany's greatest con artists, Helmut Kiener tricked thousands of private investors and banks out of more than $300 million.

Shaun Greenhalgh is a British artist and art forger. Over a seventeen-year period, between 1989 and 2006, he produced a large number of forgeries in a variety of styles.

Frédéric Bourdin is a former French serial imposter the press has nicknamed "The Chameleon".

Jan Lewandowski, known as Jan Lewan, is a Polish-American songwriter and polka band leader. Lewan's financial crimes were described as a “classic Ponzi scheme".

Jan Lewandowski, known as Jan Lewan, is a Polish-American songwriter and polka band leader. Lewan's financial crimes were described as a “classic Ponzi scheme".

Matthew Cox is an American former mortgage broker from Florida who made millions falsifying documents to make it appear that he owned the properties.

From an orphanage in a small town in France to the heart of the glitterati of Los Angeles and New York, Christophe Thierry Rocancourt is a legend on the imposter scene.

In our busy, fast-paced lives, why should we take time for paintings? Paton thinks of galleries as time machines where we slow down to look and where paintings look back,

Enter a world within a world-the world of the art dealer and the people who buy expensive paintings, where the thrill is always to find new pieces but it's always okay to

Visiting art galleries and museums can be overwhelming. Paton considers the challenge of trying to find that intimate moment with a painting in a public space-and why, wi

Not always a canvas framed and hung on a wall, painting has now begun to flirt with other art forms and formats. But how are we expected to look at it when it no longer l

Once a form of propaganda to tell history from the victors' perspective, painting has become a way of speaking truth to power-a seemingly silent medium that is a voice fo

Paton takes on the challenge of abstract art-paintings that sometimes "look like nothing.""He finds there is always something to say about these paintings that, instead o

When religious art came down from the walls of churches, it began a new life on gallery walls. Paton shows how religious work still addresses the big questions about our

When it comes to portraits, how can paint compete with pixels? Are painted portraits worth looking at in our digital age? Find out how they can look back in time, at the