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True Colors

Archaeologist Vinzenz Brinkmann insists his eye-popping reproductions of ancient Greek sculptures are right on target

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Gregory Crewdson's Epic Effects

The photographer uses movie production techniques to create "in-between moments." But you'll have to supply the story line

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Small Wonders

Europe's idiosyncratic house museums yield pleasures beyond their size

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Recalling Robert Rauschenberg

On the artist’s innovative spirit

Art expert and collector Giuseppe Salzano poses with ten copies of stolen masters. At center: a co-py of a Nativity by Caravaggio, stolen in Palermo in 1969.

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