Art & Artists

American Will Thompson (with his take on Goya's Young Woman with a Fan) has been copying at the Louvre since 1994.

Master Class

Like generations of painters before them, artists from around the globe go to Paris to copy the masterpieces at the Louvre

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Pursuing Perfection

As the natives got ready to serve A midget explorer named Merve; "This meal will be brief," Said the cannibal chief, "For this is at best an hors d'oeuvre." —Ed Cunningham

The Limerick is Furtive and Mean...

From the Maigue poets to Ogden Nash, witty wordsmiths have delighted in composing the oft-risqué five-line verses

The Blue Lagoon

Eye in the Sky

A French photographer's aerial portraits of Iceland's Blue Lagoon, cotton bales in Ivory Coast, a tulip field in Holland document a world of fragile beauty

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Just a Snapshot?

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Training Wheels

Ida B. Wells

Against All Odds

A new play and photo exhibition call attention to Ida B. Wells and her brave fight to end lynching in America

Rich: Bemused by all the goings-on

Rich in Talent

Ed Rich gave magazines a whirl. And then some

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Stieglitz in Focus

A new exhibition at Washington's National Gallery of Art tracks the development of seminal photographer Alfred Stieglitz

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Heroes Then and Now

Salome with the Head of Saint John the Baptist, c. 1610-1615, Budapest

Artemisia's Moment

After being eclipsed for centuries by her father, Orazio, Artemisia Gentileschi, the boldest female painter of her time, gets her due

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Shades of Merriment

Robert Capa, famous for his battle photographs, made friends along the way

The carcass of a cargo ship, already sheared of its forward structure, sits where it was parked on the beach at Chittagong, Bangladesh, flanked by two other scrapped vessels in various states of dismemberment.

Multiple Viewpoints

Photographer Edward Burtynsky's politically charged industrial landscapes are carefully crafted to elicit different interpretations

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Migrant Madonna

Edgar Degas rarely painted a pure still life, but he often included still lifes in the backgrounds or corners of his compositions. In The Millinery Shop (1882-86), the hats—their shapes, textures and colors—take center stage; the figure is merely an accessory.

Still Delightful

A sumptuous show documents how the Impressionists breathed new life into the staid tradition of still life painting

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Cavendish, Vermont 1981 What did the Russian author like about the United States? "[He] told me the air was free in America," Benson recalls.

Cheeky Charmer

For half a century, photographer Harry Benson has been talking his way to the top of his game

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Just Folk

From samplers to sugar bowls, weathervanes to whistles, an engaging exhibition heralds the opening of the American Folk Art Museum's new home in Manhattan

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Fresh Eyes

It turns out the America portrayed by printmakers Currier and Ives was not all sleigh rides in the snow

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Strange Bedfellows

A new exhibition tracks the turbulent nine weeks that artists Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin lived and painted together in the South of France

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The Thousand-Yard Stare

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