His own office is an unusual working environment, filled with murals, statues and objets d'art as well as his sales team.

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Hashim, an avid collector of antiques, is also smarting over a scandal involving smuggled Javanese statues that he bought from a Dutch art dealer in 2006.

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The indoor swimming pools are the most beautiful in Budapest, with the main pool having a glass dome, Art Nouveau mosaics, stained-glass windows and many statues.

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Kiko Torres, owner of the Masks y Mas art store in Albuquerque, said sales of La Santa Muerte statues, incense, and oils have skyrocketed in recent months.

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Yarn bombing, also known as guerrilla knitting, is a type of street art using knitted yarn rather than paint, such as the dressing of statues in woolly hats and scarves or hanging pompoms in trees.

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The park also contains more than 30 important historical or archaeological sites, ranging from Stone Age cave art to Hellenistic and late Roman settlements where valuable decorative pieces such as coins, ceramics and statues have been discovered.

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