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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).

A painting called "La Belle Ferronniere" by a follower of Leonardo da Vinci (Getty/Timothy A. Clary)

This is your brain on knockoffs: The science of how we trick ourselves into not believing our eyes

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(Getty/Alex Wong/Mireia Triguero Roura)

No deal for the arts: It’s no surprise that Donald Trump wants to tell the arts and humanities “you’re fired”

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Donald Trump; John Berger in "Ways of Seeing" (Getty/Tom Pennington)

The art of learning: Why art history might be the most important subject you could study today

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Detail of Rene Magritte's "Son of Man" (Wikimedia)

This is your brain on selfies: The science of self-portraits, faces, art and the mind

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A detail of "Christ in the House of Martha and Mary" by Diego Velázquez (Wikimedia)

The art mystery in the menu: The meal in this painting is more than just lunch — but what?

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"Portinari Triptych" by Hugo van der Goes (Wikicommons)

Dreaming of a dark Christmas: Decoding the seasonal iconography we take for granted

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(Getty/Daniel Leal-Olivas)

This is your brain on art: A neuroscientist’s lessons on why abstract art makes our brains hurt so good

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(Columbia Pictures)

A few good Monuments Men: Saving art from looting and destruction — especially in the Middle East — is a military matter

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EDINBURGH, UNITED KINGDOM - NOVEMBER 12: Staff at The Queen?s Gallery at the Palace of Holyrood view The Calling of Saints Peter and Andrew by Caravaggio on November 12, 2008 in Edinburgh, Scotland.The painting is one of two lost works which were discovered in the Queens collection, it hangs along side Boy Peeling Fruit, and it is on display for the first time in Scotland, as part of The Art of Italy in the Royal Collection. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images) (Getty/Jeff J Mitchell)

The Maltese priest and the kidnapped Caravaggio: The amazing true story of the scrappy octogenarian who busted an audacious art heist

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(Getty/Robin Utrecht)

Faking it: Does the forged Vermeer that fooled Goering belong in a museum?

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(NBC)

Donald Trump’s modest proposals: His campaign sounded like a Jonathan Swift essay — but who got the joke?

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(Getty/Chip Somodevilla)

Slovenia’s Trump translator: How I became the American explaining our election to Melania’s people

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Scene from "Panic Room" (Columbia Pictures)

Sweet home paranoia: The panic room business is booming for the 1 percent

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Donald Trump; Pennywise from "It" (Getty/Jewel Samad/Warner Bros./Salon)

The monsters we create: On Stephen King’s “It,” the creepy clown epidemic and Donald Trump

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A detail of the Ghent Altarpiece in the Saint Bavo Cathedral, post-restoration. (Saint-Bavo’s Cathedral Ghent © www.lukasweb.be – Art in Flanders vzw, foto Dominique Provost)

Secrets of the Ghent Altarpiece: Everything you thought you knew about this work of art might be wrong

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David Ortiz (Reuters/Bob DeChiara)

The art of David Ortiz: Is Big Papi himself a work of art? Let’s consult the experts

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Naked performers re-perform "Imponderabilia" (1977) by artists Marina Abramovic and Ulay (Reuters/Christian Hartmann)

How much for the naked staring? Even in the world of performance art, everything has a price

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(AP/John Locher)

The art of the lie: The art forgery guide to Donald Trump’s tall tales

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Marina Abramovic (AP/Domenico Stinellis)

Ulay vs. Marina Abramović: How the epic legal battle between art-world giants went down

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Detail of "The Garden of Earthly Delights" by Hieronymus Bosch (Wikimedia)

Why Bosch’s Hell feels so real: The answers lie in Freud, Jung and the humble cronut

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Harrison Ford in "Raiders of the Lost Ark" (Lucasfilm)

Relic hunter: A missing Christian relic, the fall of Nazi Germany and a mystery that flummoxed historians for centuries

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(HBO/Helen Sloan)

Thanksgiving, medieval style: Give thanks that “Red Deer testicles” and “living eels in roasted pig” aren’t on the menu today

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The wackiest art heist ever: Hardly a “Thomas Crown Affair,” this real theft of a masterpiece was a little bit 007 and a whole lot Monty Python

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(Comedy Central)

Your fake Fendi has a human cost: Indentured servants fuel Italy’s knockoff luxury goods market

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