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Abroad: For Culturati in Naples, the City’s Notoriety Is Outshining Its Beauty	Art	10/13/2008 10:24 PM
In Naples, the big question is how much culture ever does to turn around a struggling city.
In Modern China, ‘Little Kingdoms’ for the People	Architecture	10/12/2008 10:14 PM
A new exhibition offers further evidence that China has become the most fertile territory on the globe for experimentation by architects.
William Claxton, Photographer, Is Dead at 80	Photography	10/14/2008 12:37 AM
Mr. Claxton was a photographer who captured images of the greats of jazz and made indelible images of pop stars and movie stars.
Art: From a Big Imagination, a Tiny Circus	Art	10/10/2008 7:14 PM
A show at the Whitney Museum will recreate Alexander Calder’s world of trapeze artists and galloping horses.
Art Review: Not Quite Documentary Art	Photography	10/11/2008 10:45 PM
An exhibit at the Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery at Wesleyan University encourages viewers to think about the ways in which artists use and abuse documentary principles.
Arts, Briefly: Sarkozy, Merkel to Open De Gaulle Memorial	Monuments and Memorials	10/10/2008 10:19 PM
President Nicolas Sarkozy of France and Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany will inaugurate a memorial complex dedicated to Charles de Gaulle.
Arts, Briefly: Italy Questions Items in Antiquities Auction	Art	10/10/2008 10:19 PM
A former Italian culture minister says he is trying to stop Bonhams auction house in London from selling several archaeological artifacts that he contends may have been looted in Italy.
Art Review \| Elizabeth Peyton: The Personal and the Painterly	Art	10/13/2008 9:38 PM
The best of Elizabeth Peyton’s portraits, as seen at the New Museum, are accessible, devotional and visually alive.
Art Review \| 'Traces of the Calligrapher': Copying the Koran, One Book at a Time	Art	10/13/2008 10:45 AM
Two shows on calligraphy and the Koran at the Asia Society are perfect in size and proportion, gorgeous, and worthy of the book they honor.
Art Review \| 'The Essential Art of African Textiles': African Art, Modern and Traditional: Seductive Patterns From a Rich Palette	Art	10/9/2008 10:38 PM
Two new exhibitions provide insight on the history and artistry, of wax-print cloth in Africa — and on Western viewers’ relative ignorance of both.