A Brush with Paul Gauguin on the Polynesian Island Hiva Oa

“Gauguin was a revolutionary,” says my tour guide Tim as we drive through the rainforests of Hiva Oa. “He fought against the local church, he fought for the rights of us Marquesans. He lived according to his own values, and we appreciate him here still.” With ornate geometrical tattoos covering his body, Tim is not the kind of guy you’d expect to wax poetically about a 19th century French painter

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The Scene: The Eternal City challenges ‘Angels’

It’s been three years to the month since Dan Brown’s book "The Da Vinci Code" hit theater screens, becoming a worldwide blockbuster. Now superstar Tom Hanks and director Ron Howard are back with another of Brown’s best-sellers, “Angels & Demons.” Unlike the previous effort in which the Oscar-winning duo went on a shooting spree across several European countries, the new film takes place in just one locale, Rome

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