Beth Py-Lieberman

Beth Py-Lieberman

 

Senior editor Beth Py-Lieberman is the author of the The Object at Hand: Intriguing and Inspiring Stories from the Smithsonian Collections. 

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What's Up

Orchids, Ice Floes and Kids with Cameras

Norman Rockwell's "Four Freedoms" theme was rejected at first, but the posters became classics.

Any Bonds Today?

When Uncle Sam passed the hat in World War II, Americans came up with $185 billion to buy U.S. bonds

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The Pleasure of the Rare Book

Treasures from the Smithsonian Libraries—a Wright brothers bio, a repoussé prayer book—can be savored in a new show

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The Twigman Cometh

If Patrick Dougherty shows up in town, he's there to make art - with a twist - out of sticks

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The Colors of Childhood

Crayola crayons take us all back with their fondly remembered look, scent and feel on paper

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The Really Big Art of Claes Oldenburg

By turning the ordinary flashlight, spoon or clothespin into a colossal monument, this artist chisels away at society's solemnity

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