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

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Pixies and the Surrealist continuum

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Museum of the Bible is busted: Inside the Hobby Lobby owners’ dodgy artifact practices

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"Kauernde" by Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) is part of Cornelius Gurlitt's art collection (AP/Henning Kaiser)

The first glimpse inside a Nazi looted art collection

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Jeff Koons near his sculptures "Michael Jackson and Bubbles," and "Amore" (AP/Bebeto Matthews)

Did Jeff really paint that Koons? Working at a modern studio isn’t exactly a Renaissance apprenticeship

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Power chords and Pollock: Art history and a theoretical superstructure of punk

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Rowan Atkinson as Mr. Bean in "Bean" (PolyGram Filmed)

What Mr. Bean teaches us about the American museum patron

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"Hydra and Kali" by Damien Hirst (Getty/Miguel Medina)

Art imitates art? Damien Hirst’s Venice Biennale installation looks a lot like another’s

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Why did the Nazis steal so many books?

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Guardians of the Spoon book (Manca Juvan)

Art and the genocide memorial: How to make people engage with the horror, not look away

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Biennale of Arts in Venice (AP/Domenico Stinellis)

Venice Biennale, punk-style: The NSK State Pavilion, for “stateless individuals who are looking for new citizenship”

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The art of the art of Trump: A critical reading of “The Visionary,” that painting of him at Mar-a-Lago

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Picasso’s weapon against fascism: Why “Guernica” is the greatest of all war paintings

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What you don’t know about the Holy Grail

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'The Floating Piers' created by artist Christo Vladimirov Javacheff on Iseo Lake, in northern Italy (Getty/Marco Bertorello)

A love letter to Christo, who has the courage to walk away

Noah Charney, Diane Joy Charney
"The Blue Madonna," 17th Century. Oil on canvas. (The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art.)

The mystery — and true history — of a one-hit wonder

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Head of King of David (metmuseum.org/Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1938)

The secret lives of works of art: What percentage of a museum’s holdings are likely to be fakes?

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Art attack: Why do people try to destroy museum masterpieces?

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The affordable-art paradox: Do reasonable prices make pieces of art less desirable?

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Did ISIS inadvertently uncover the secret to the “lost” Hanging Gardens of Babylon?

Noah Charney
Kazimir Malevichs's "Black Suprematist Square" (Getty/Yuri Kadobnov)

Entombing Lenin’s tomb: “Black Square” and the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution

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Art and food to blow your mind: Where the Ferran Adriàs of the culinary world meet Salvador Dalí

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Jasper Johns' 'Flag' (AP/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Are there any truly great American artists?

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"Love in the Golden Age," Agustino Caracci

The Renaissance origin of porn: Inside “I Modi,” the 16th-century sex manual masterpiece

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This is your brain on fake news: what’s behind the human willingness to swallow “alternative facts”

Noah Charney
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