Space shuttle-watchers took their place in the sun, not yet awakened to the true risks of exploring the heavens.
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Though the artist doesn't think of himself as a painter of portraits, a new exhibition makes the case that they are key to his work
The author talks about what makes the newly renovated Patent Office Building special
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Two museums return home and invite visitors to engage in "conversations"
From dark and cavernous to room for everybody
Henry Adams, author of "Wyeth's World," speaks with the artist about his early work, influences and technique
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Architect Daniel Libeskind's zinc lightning bolt of a building is one of the most revolutionary structures built since the war in Germany or anywhere
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"I'm 15. I'm getting married. My mother doesn't want me to get married." But that's just the beginning of the story
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In 1984, Peter Feldstein set out to photograph everyone in Oxford, Iowa. Two decades later, he's doing it again, creating a portrait of heartland America
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In the wake of his death, controversy still surrounds painter Andrew Wyeth's stature as a major American artist
Dedicated metalsmiths help a Memphis museum revive a lost American art form
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The irreverent, rowdy revolution set the trajectory of 20th-century art
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Scholars say this 19th-century artifact could have belonged to the celebrated American painter
How I learned to stop worrying and make peace with my nuclear phone
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On assignment with Europe's most peripatetic canine
A news photographer in India captures a devotional moment that goes back a thousand years
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Though the Norwegian artist is known for a single image, he was one of the most prolific, innovative and influential figures in modern art
Our fur-flung correspondents in dogged pursuit
On the 250th anniversary of the composer's birth, the author scours Salzburg and Vienna for traces of the master's mischievous spirit
Smithsonian gets a new publisher
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