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Noah Charney

Noah Charney is a Salon arts columnist and professor specializing in art crime, and author of “The Art of Forgery” (Phaidon).

David Bowie (AP/Ron Frehm)

Never forget David Bowie masterminded “the biggest art hoax in history”

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Steve Green, the owner of Hobby Lobby and a founder and major backer of the Museum of the Bible, at the museum, Monday, Oct. 30, 2017, in Washington. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

Lessons from the Museum of the Bible’s fake Dead Sea Scrolls: How not to buy looted antiquities

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The original version of "Girl With Balloon" by Banksy. A framed print of the mural shredded itself after being auctioned for $1.4 million dollars. (Wikiart)

Why Banksy’s self-destructing “Girl With Balloon” is worth even more shredded

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Vasari Corridor (Wikimedia)

Inside the Vasari Corridor, where Medici feet once trod

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Screengrab from "Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable" (Netflix)

Damien Hirst and the specific thrills of the mockumentary

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(Getty/Shutterstock/Salon)

From “Soviet Santa” to red-faced devils: Choose your own Christmas adventure

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Sultan Mehmed II by Gentile Bellini (Wikimedia)

Western art’s debt to the Islamic world

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(Salon/Ilana Lidagoster)

The art of the fake: Forgers are the art world’s antiheroes

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Allan Pinkerton and Abraham Lincoln (Library of Congress/Alexander Gardner)

Lincoln’s spy: How Pinkerton laid the foundation for the CIA and FBI

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Eugène François Vidocq (Wikimedia)

The wild, made-for-TV story of criminology’s first secret agent

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The pyramid of the Louvre museum (Getty/Francois Guillot)

Don’t judge a building by its walls: Architecture is about space, and how it feels

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"Goodnight Moon" by Margaret Wise Brown (Harper & Brothers)

Finding Cézanne in “Goodnight Moon”

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"Six Tuscan Poets" - Giorgio Vasari (Wikimedia)

Where our Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle theory of great art comes from

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Hugh Hefner (AP/Carlos Rene Perez)

Hugh Hefner, Playboy and the art history of naked ladies

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Pierce Brosnan as Thomas Crown in "The Thomas Crown Affair" (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer)

The myth of the art thief: It’s not a gentleman’s crime

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(Shutterstock/cla78)

Statue of Liberty: Still America’s national icon?

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"Beheading of Saint John the Baptist" by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (Wikimedia)

Caravaggio the criminal: How a life on the lam changed the Baroque painter’s art

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"The Lute Player" by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (Wikimedia)

Caravaggio the criminal: The violent life and crimes of an artistic genius

Noah Charney
Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC (Getty/ Win McNamee)

The art of the war memorial: What should a monument to a past conflict do?

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(Salon/Flora Thevoux)

How we lost the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

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(Getty/sarah5)

Are robots moving sculptures? On Art, illusion and artificial intelligence

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Terracotta bell-krater (mixing bowl) (The MET)

The Met Python’s flying circus: A museum, a vase and the kingpin of stolen antiquities

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A Banksy wall painting showing Israeli border policeman and Palestinian in a pillow fight. (AP/Dusan Vranic)

Why do we care who Banksy is?

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Kathryn Hahn as Chris Kraus and Kevin Bacon as Dick in "I Love Dick" (Amazon Studios)

How good is Dick, anyway? An art scholar evaluates the work of Jill Soloway’s fictional art-throb

Noah Charney
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