A new exhibition showcases Bearden's innovative collages and stakes a claim for him in the pantheon of 20th-century American artists
Fifteen years later, a photograph of an anonymous protester facing down a row of tanks in Beijing's Tiananmen Square still inspires astonishment
Photographer Jack Pashkovsky disarmed Hollywood's royalty with his ardor and persistence
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Pop artist James Rosenquist returns to the limelight with a dazzling retrospective of his larger-than-life works
Taken at the start of his multifaceted career, Gordon Parks' photograph of a Washington, D.C. worker was so inflammatory it was buried for decades
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With his wild and whimsical imagery, the Russian-born artist bucked the trends of 20th-century art
A new book and a Paris arts center pay homage to photography's elusive 95-year-old grand master
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In the Mexican village of Teotitlán, gifted artisans create a future from bright hand-loomed rugs
Looking up his high school Permanent Record Card leaves our author curiously grateful for his failings
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In 1821, the French carved a classical Greek sculpture. In the Venus de Milo, they thought they finally had one. Never mind that it wasn't really classical
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Julia Margaret Cameron's evocative photographs of Lord Tennyson and other 19th-century British notables pioneered the art of portraiture
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Today's obituary writers sum up lives famous and not with pans as well as paeans
Five Categories, 50 Finalists, Six Winners
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Photographer Alex Webb captured a moment that showed, he says, the "continuity of life in the face of disaster"
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Richard Waterman's never-before-published photographs caught the roots music legends at their down-home best
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Groundbreaking art shines at the extraordinary new Dia: Beacon museum on New York's Hudson River
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Photographer Bob Adelman's picture of Martin Luther King, Jr., taken 40 years ago, captures one of the greatest speeches in American history
Exquisite art and artifacts from the world's earliest civilization are dazzling visitors to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Bold, garish and steamy cover images from popular pulp-fiction magazines of the 1930s and '40s have made their way from newsstands to museum walls
Announcing our first-ever photo contest
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