Art & Artists

Life imitates Frederic Remington (models Josh and Rob Culbertson) at the annual invitation-only event known as the Artist Ride.

Cowboys and Artists

Each summer models decked out in period dress give artists a picture of life in the Wild West

The original Smokey Bear, playing in his pool at the National Zoo, sometime during the 1950s.

A Bear-Handed Grab

How a stranded cub became the living symbol for one of America's best-known advertising campaigns

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Lucky Man

A stroke of astonishing good fortune that even the author's skeptical father might embrace

Jon Broderick

Rhyme or Cut Bait

When these fisher poets gather, nobody brags about the verse that got away

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Animal Magnetism

Gregory Colbert's haunting photographs, exhibited publicly for the first time in the US, hint at an extraordinary bond between us and our fellow creatures

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Toulouse-Lautrec

The fin de sià¨cle artist who captured Paris' cabarets and dance halls is drawing crowds to a new exhibition at Washington, D.C.'s National Gallery of Art

Mann now uses an old view camera.

Model Family

Sally Mann's unflinching photographs of her children have provoked controversy, but one of her now-grown daughters wonders what all the fuss was about

Portrait of Salvador Dalí, Paris

Catalonia

The Surreal World of Salvador Dalí

Genius or madman? A new exhibition may help you decide

Kertész (in his 80s, c. 1975) made his name in Paris (Under the Eiffel Tower, 1929).

Hungarian Rhapsody

In a 70-year career that began in Budapest, André Kertész pioneered modern photography, as a new exhibition makes clear

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Modigliani: Misunderstood

A new exhibition positions the bohemian artist's work above even his operatic life story

The nomads who traversed Utah's rough terrain scratched, pecked and painted thousands of images onto cliff walls, creating rock art known today as the Barrier Canyon style. The earliest painting at Black Dragon Canyon (above) is thought to be more than 8,000 years old.

Traces of a Lost People

Who roamed the Colorado Plateau thousands of years ago? And what do their stunning paintings signify?

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Central Park

Christo Does Central Park

After a quarter century's effort, the wrap artist and his wife, Jeanne-Claude, blaze a saffron trail in New York City

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James Boswell's Scotland

The author of the Life of Samuel Johnson spent much of his own life trying to escape the country of his birth

Alan Grant photographed Jayne Mansfield in 1957 in her Hollywood swimming pool, among hot-water bottles in her image, which now fetch hundreds of dollars each on Internet auction sites. "I could have been a multimillionare [if I'd saved some]," jokes Grant.

Slices of Life

From Hollywood to Buchenwald, and Manhattan to the Kalahari, the magazine pioneered photojournalism as we know it. A new book shows how

For the 2005 Festival of China, artist Cai Guo-Qiang created a fireworks display over the Potomac River in Washington, D.C.

Art That Goes Boom

The works of Cai Guo-Qiang, director of visual effects for the opening ceremonies at the Beijing Olympic Games, truly sizzle

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Subway Spy

Walker Evans' underground-breaking photographs resurface for the centennial of New York City's rapid transit system

Les Demoiselles d’Avignon

Cleaning Picasso

The artist's groundbreaking Les Demoiselles d'Avignon gets a face lift from experts at New York's Museum of Modern Art

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Point, Shoot, Submit

Our new and improved photo contest swings into gear

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Man of Action

An eccentric photographer and a racehorse made history one day in 1878. The world would never look the same

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