“I’M in Hollywood,” Salvador Dalí wrote in a postcard to André Breton in 1937, “where I’ve made contact with the three American surrealists, Harpo Marx, Disney and Cecil B. DeMille.”
“One always more or less believes to have ‘dreamed’ it when one recalls Claudette Colbert bathing in a pool filled with asses’ milk at the beginning [...]

Spanish police and the FBI have dismantled a multimillion-dollar international art forgery ring which duped hundreds of customers into buying counterfeit prints of works purporting to be by artists including Picasso, Warhol and Dali.
Two Italians, one Spaniard and four Americans were charged in connection with two overlapping conspiracies believed to have netted about $5m (£2.5m). [...]