Articles

A horse touted as being from the Tang dynasty, but with only one genuine part in the unglazed underside.

Forensic Science for Antiques

Revealing art secrets—and exposing forgeries

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Quake Strikes Heart of Panda Country

Thomas Alva Edison by Alfred S. Seer Engraver; Copy after: Mathew B. Brady, Color woodcut poster, c. 1878

All in a Word

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Penguins Find DDT in Meltwater

Filing cabinets full of fakes at the Museum of Fakes

Showcasing Shams

At the Museum of Fakes, what's not real is still art

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Take a Close Look

I Can't Live Without That. . . Necklace?

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I Can't Live Without That. . .Necklace?

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Homepage Artistry

Xu Bing's Book from the Sky(1987-1991), hand printed books, ceiling and wall scrolls printed from wood letterpress type using false Chinese characters, dimensions variable, installation view at "Crossings," National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (1998).

China’s Artistic Diaspora

For sixty years, upheavals in Chinese politics have not only remade the country’s economy–they have remade Chinese art

Listen, the Snow Is Falling

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Interview with G. Wayne Clough

Smithsonian Institution's 12th Secretary discusses his new role, his distinguished career in education and his favorite artifact

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The Fog Lifts

As it always does, given enough time

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Letters

Readers Respond to the March Issue

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Model Arrangement

In Milton Greene, Marilyn Monroe found a friend as well as a photographer who captured the range of her vibrant personality

Bhutan meets Texas (El Paso's campus) at the Folklife Festival

From the Castle

GNP or GNH?

A soup tureen by Meissonnier

Curves Ahead

At the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Rococo experiences a revival

Lennie Foy

Jukebox

Hot Horns

Irving Berlin's piano

Ivory Merchant

Composer Irving Berlin wrote scores of hits on his custom-built instrument

G. Wayne Clough

Turning a Page

Smithsonian regents tap engineer, educator G. Wayne Clough as the Institution's next Secretary

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