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Big Touch-Up for the Blue and the Gray	Art	7/6/2008 10:17 PM
The Gettysburg Cyclorama, an enormous painting in the round, is to reopen on Sept. 26 after a five-year restoration.
Art: Buddha’s Caves	Art	7/6/2008 12:41 AM
On the lip of the Gobi Desert, sand and tourists threaten Mogaoku’s singular art.
Style: Sky Lark	Housing	7/5/2008 12:03 AM
When a family in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, needed more space, there was nowhere to go but up.
An American in China	Books and Literature	7/6/2008 8:04 AM
Michael Meyer, a resident of Beijing, records the demolition of the city’s ancient neighborhoods.
Thai Museum at Angkor Draws Tourists, and Criticism	Angkor (Cambodia)	7/6/2008 1:58 AM
With few artifacts remaining at the site of the Angkor temples, a Thai company’s new museum there is being criticized for everything from politics to its displays.
Michael Turner, 37, Creator of Superheroines, Is Dead	Turner, Michael	7/5/2008 6:55 PM
Mr. Turner was a popular comic-book artist who came to fame in the mid-1990s and was best known for creating two sexy female lead characters, Witchblade and Fathom.
Museum Review: Good Guys, Bad Guys and Spies, All Wrapped in ‘Edutainment’	Museums	7/4/2008 10:20 PM
The International Spy Museum and the National Museum of Crime & Punishment in Washington promise the latest forms of “edutainment,” which generously blur boundaries between fact and fancy.
Art Review \| 'Radiance From the Rain Forest': Objects From a Long-Vanished Peru, Parading All Their Magnificent Plumage	Art	7/4/2008 9:03 PM
This show supplements the Met’s rarely displayed holdings of featherwork with examples borrowed from public and private collections.
For an Artist at Full Speed, Everything Else Just Takes a Back Seat	Art	7/4/2008 9:02 PM
“The Art of Failure: Chuck Connelly Not For Sale” chronicles Mr. Connelly’s fast rise and long career slide.
Arts and Entertainment: When Watercolor Came Into Its Own	Art	7/5/2008 1:04 AM
A beautiful new show at the Yale Center for British Art brings together a collection of more than 50,000 drawings, watercolors and other works on paper assembled over 15 years.