ART

Museums in St. Louis and Dallas found they were displaying $18 sculptures mass-produced in the 1950s as pre-Columbian art, and hundreds more of the fakes may exist in other collections, according to an article in the June issue of Connoisseur magazine. The St. Louis Art Museum’s Morton D. May Collection and the Dallas Museum of Art each say they have scrapped three fake works that were once prized as Veracruz Mexican sculptures. At least four other U.S. museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, were taken in, said art historian Mimi Crosely, of Austin, Tex., writing in the magazine.