Art & Artists

The Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. Picture taken by Hubble

Dwarf Galaxies Caught Speeding

Milky Way Revised

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Saul Steinberg at Morgan Library

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That Seahorse-Shaped Space in Our Brain

Frank Gehry's Louis Vuitton design

Art in Glass Houses

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Martin Ramirez

Colored Sand and Gunpowder

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New Book Canvasses Contemporary Artists

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Vanished Drawings

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The Biggest Guggenheim Ever

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Martín Ramírez (1895-1963): Who’s He?

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What's Up

A list of events and exhibitions at the Smithsonian Institution

Sculptors and artists designed lifelike masks for gravely wounded soldiers.

World War I: 100 Years Later

Faces of War

Amid the horrors of World War I, a corps of artists brought hope to soldiers disfigured in the trenches

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Out of Africa

This month a special collection €“representing most of Africa's major artistic traditions €“goes spectacularly on view

Longfellow is only the second writer to grace a U.S. stamp more than once.

Famous Once Again

Longfellow reaches his bicentennial; here's why his poems became perennial

Rossetti identified the subject of his Lady Lilith painting as Adam's first wife—"the witch he loved before the gift of Eve." The work (1866-68) was altered in 1872-73 to please patron Frederick Leyland. The original model was Rossetti's lover Fanny Cornforth.

Incurably Romantic

For much of the 20th century, Britain's Pre-Raphaelite were dismissed as overly sentimental. A new exhibition shows why they're back in favor

Cornell's 1946 construction, an homage to the ballerina Tamara Toumanova, incorporated feathers from her costumes.

Pas de Deux

Joseph Cornell turned his obsession with a prima ballerina into art

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The Art of the Audition

"It is a very simple truth," novelist Henry James wrote in 1887, "that when today we look for 'American art' we find it mainly in Paris." John Singer Sargent captured the pearly light of dusk in Paris in his 1879 work In the Luxembourg Gardens.

Americans in Paris

In the late 19th century, the City of Light beckoned Whistler, Sargent, Cassatt and other young artists. What they experienced would transform American art

The Bar-B-Q Inn in 1971.

Time After Time

William Christenberry embraces the impermanent

Pretty? Yes. But it isn't Bulbophyllum echinolabium's bright colors that attract pollinating flies—it's the putrid stench. Sniff out a few hundred live orchids at the Museum of Natural History starting January 27.

What's Up

Live Orchids, Japanese art and African masks

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