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Abroad: Caravaggio in Ascendance: An Antihero’s Time to Shine	Caravaggio	3/9/2010 11:18 PM
By one new metric, Michelangelo has been bumped from his perch atop the Italian art charts by Caravaggio, a hyperrealist whose art is instantly accessible.
Architecture Review: A Paris Tribute to an Almost-Sideways View of the World	Architecture	3/9/2010 5:26 PM
There’s something both touching and disturbing at the heart of “Claude Parent: Graphic and Built Works.”
Christie’s Wins Bid to Auction $150 Million Brody Collection	Art	3/9/2010 4:28 PM
The art collection of the Los Angeles philanthropist Frances Lasker Brody will be sold at Christie’s in New York in May.
Ken Price, Suddenly Dominating New York Galleries	Art	3/7/2010 12:08 AM
Ken Price remains a remarkably productive sculptor and renderer of graphic, cartoonlike drawings.
Suicide Raises Legal Issues in Indian Artifacts Cases	Looting	3/9/2010 12:35 AM
The effect of a central federal witness’s death, the third suicide related to a sprawling inquiry into artifact theft, is unclear.
Arts, Briefly: Architectural Records Saved at Last Minute		3/9/2010 11:19 AM

Street Art Is Landing at New Addresses, in Galleries	Art	3/9/2010 11:22 PM
Pop Pluralism is the skateboarding, graffiti-tagging, sometimes bratty and rebellious younger sibling of the art shown in most Chelsea galleries.
Visuals: Histories of Maps and Other Visual Books	Books and Literature	3/8/2010 12:42 PM
Visual books about maps, the design firm Unimark International and African and Central Asian “war rugs.”
Frank Williams, Architect of Towers in Manhattan, Dies at 73	Williams, Frank	3/9/2010 10:26 AM
Mr. Williams was the lead architect or collaborated with other prominent designers on 20 buildings in Manhattan.
Arts \| Long Island: Wood-Holland Recreates Mural at Planting Fields’ Coe Hall	Art	3/5/2010 6:32 PM
Polly Wood-Holland is recreating an early-20th-century mural at Coe Hall, a mansion at Planting Fields Arboretum State Historic Park.