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Read an excerpt from the book 'Art and Crime: The Fight Against Looters, Forgers, and Fraudsters in the High-Stakes Art World.'

Last modified on Fri 12 Feb 2021 12.35 EST The sensual American graffitist Cy Twombly, who lived in Italy from the late 1950s until his death in 2011, lushly inscribed his epic canvases with love poetry – Shelley and Keats, Cavafy and Catullus. The work was like an abstract expressionist Valentine’s card. He even used hearts and roses in his work, as well as penises, breasts, anuses and vaginas. But who was his Valentine? The answer is as epic and enigmatic as Twombly’s art. In the early ...

October 6th, 2015 To celebrate our 15th Birthday, members of the DiS team highlight a record from DiS lifetime that they feel was overlooked. These are personal picks, and we kept the definition of "lost" very loose. Some chose under-appreciated albums from reasonably well-known acts. Others went for exceptional records in niche genres. And a few went for records that were adored by DiS, talked about kindly for a few weeks and then didnt seem to get much coverage from the rest of the media. NEW...