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A Rembrandt Identity Crisis	Art	12/4/2009 7:38 PM
The new exhibition at the Getty Museum lets viewers try their hands at determining authorship by pairing works by Rembrandt with those by his strongest students.
Holiday Books: Rock ’n’ Roll	Rock Music	12/5/2009 12:23 AM
Gail Buckland wants us to see the work of music photographers accepted as art in its own right.
Holiday Books: The Illustrator	Blechman, R O	12/3/2009 9:03 PM
With these plainspoken, charming “letters,” the renowned illustrator counsels an imaginary pen pal in his trade.
Holiday Books: Photography	Blacks	12/4/2009 2:40 PM
More than 200 arresting photographs convey the complexity and scope of African-American beauty.
Holiday Books: Paris	Art	12/4/2009 2:33 PM
A look at the city’s metamorphoses as recorded by centuries of artists.
Holiday Books: Visuals: The Art of the Word	Art	12/4/2009 11:14 PM
Visual books on typefaces, the use of text in art, codes, Japanese puppets and the illustrator Peter de Sève.
Art Review \| Long Island: Something in the Air, the Light, the Water?	Art	12/5/2009 11:49 PM
An exhibition showcases important works by a rich vein of talented and overlooked artists from Huntington and its environs.
Arts \| Westchester: Turning a Spotlight on Latin American Music and Art	Art	12/6/2009 12:25 AM
As the Latino population grows, local cultural institutions seek to respond to the changing demographics.
Art Review \| Connecticut: Colorful, Witty, Noisy: A West Indies Mélange	Caribbean Area	12/6/2009 12:02 AM
A once-in-a-while show that takes you out of your comfort zone and into a strange new world.
Arts: A Vanished San Francisco, Black, White and Colorful	Ratto, Gerald	12/6/2009 12:22 AM
Photographs by Gerald Ratto poignantly recall the vanished landscape of the Fillmore district of San Francisco in 1952.