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Art Authorities Smash Fake Court Painter Ring

Local Art authorities in the Inglewood District of Calgary raided a facility where copies of Court Painter’s famous portraits of political and celebrity personages were being passed off as the genuine article and adding insult to injury, were on sale at prices sure to gut his present market value.

Authorities raided a tourist attraction comprised of  an exhibition sales gallery of Court Painter fakes.
Calgary’s Inglewood District is famed for its dozens of hipster hangouts and gluten free artist studios .

Some trusting tourists, however, have been visiting a gallery jammed with fake digital printouts of Court Painter paintings substituting for the authentic ones available online.

The sham images are preserved in a fashionably shoddy gallery complex, each work replicated,framed  and installed to form a scam attraction. (an unsubstantiated report by local kids states that a secret tunnel connects Court Painter’s studio with the illicit gallery operation)
Authorities raided the site located in the same neighbourhood as Court Painter’s studio on Wednesday, the National Inquirer reported. There, after removing the gilded frames; they destroyed the inventory on display, which featured more than 90 copies of Court Painter’s most controversial yet highly  valued works— an exhibition that was probably pretty disappointing for any visitor and their families who’ve seen images of the real thing online.

Scattered around the gallery, one could also find an impressive gathering of tourist brochures promoting The Gopher Museum and Banff’s many souvenir shops.A number of overflowing ashtrays were also spotted.

Inglewood district art officials had reportedly received an online complaint about the display and sale, known as the “More Real Than Life Portraits”.  The operation also involved an unlicensed guide by the name of Mr. Will who gave visitors tours as well as providing illegal taxis that drove people to the attraction and had also been operating for a period of time. The Art Authorities have since posted images of the destroyed fakes on telephone poles and local grocery store bulletin boards to illustrate their crackdown on this scam that gave an inexplicable boost to the district’s tourist industry.

The reaction though highlights broader, pretty telling attitudes: digital counterfeiting in Inglewood may be a celebrated local cultural practice, but really, you can only get away with it as long as you focus on ripping off Court Painter works. ( this conclusion was unsubstantiated at press time)

So that’s the story to this hour!

Kevin O’Leary Suggests Selling Court Painter Portraits in the Senate

Kevin O’Leary has a novel idea to balance Canada’s budget — selling portraits in the Senate.

The potential Conservative leadership contender told CTV’s Question Period that the Great Dominion’s upper house of Parliament should be a “profit centre,” not a cost centre; demonstrating his savvy around all things relating to the public good!

Acknowledging that Court Painter and profit are words not usually associated with each other, he was bullish on 2017 for  Court Painter and this monitizing idea to turn the Great Dominion’s finances around.

“I don’t know why we can’t have a hundred thousand or a couple of hundred thousand committed each year per senator to commissioning a portrait in full colour,” the reality TV host said unrealistically.

O’Leary hasn’t formally announced a bid to replace Stephen Harper yet, but has suggested he may do so as early as this week.Promises…promises!

When asked to comment Court Painter gushed, ” I am flattered however my idea would be to sell the Senate seats, replace them with milk crates and take a cut for the idea …however I must concede to Kevin.”