The money for the art was to be returned following their exhibition, with Haaning keeping his $3900 in pay. But when organizers got the artwork, they found only a blank canvas.

Jens Haaning was supposed to create works of art with the 530,000 Danish krone ($76,000) lent to him by a museum, but instead he took the money and ran in the name of art. Now, after almost two ...

They (police forces) called what we practice black magic,” says High Priest Roberto Braga, of the Lumy Jacare Juncara terreiro, in Rio’s northern neighborhood of Nova Iguacu.