Articles

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'Merry of Soul': The legacy of Robert Louis Stevenson

Writer Simon Winchester explores Stevenson's life and proves why he is still loved today

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The Really Big Art of Claes Oldenburg

By turning the ordinary flashlight, spoon or clothespin into a colossal monument, this artist chisels away at society's solemnity

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Strang the Strange: America's Only King

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The Great Martian Fossil Hunt

If bacterial life did arise on an Earth-like early Mars, we should be able to find its fossil remains preserved in those red rocks

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Around the Mall & Beyond

Plant and the butterflies will come: This summer the Smithsonian's new garden welcomes its winged visitors

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My Psychiatrist Tells Me I Have 'Sci-Fitis'...

On an ordinary April day the weirdness came to town

Etching of Joseph O. Eaton's portrait of Herman Melville

During Melville's Lifetime, Fame Proved Elusive for a Literary Giant

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)

A Vibrant New Heart For the Art in San Francisco

A short walk from the uphill end of the Fisherman's Wharf trolley line is a former working-class neighborhood that is the city's new home for the arts

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The Decorative Art of India's Painted Prayers

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Review of 'Measure for Measure: A Musical History of Science'

Review of 'Measure for Measure: A Musical History of Science'

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It's Hard to Believe One Man Held Sway Over All This Land

But it's true. In the mid-1800s Lucien Maxwell, a dauntless former mountain man, ruled a huge chunk of New Mexico and lower Colorado

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One Thousand and One Ways of Saying Uncle

Sam meddles shamelessly in U.S. politics and carries on with Miss Liberty, but nobody knows for sure exactly where he came from

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Smithsonian Perspectives

As part of our 150th-anniversary celebration, we're going to take 150 museum treasures on the road

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Around the Mall & Beyond

The Smithsonian Associates have a 'national treasure' in their midst, but shhh, don't tell...

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The Dying Tecumseh and the Birth of a Legend

A sculpture in the Smithsonian collection reveals much about how the Indians of the West were viewed in the early ages of the United States

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En Garde! Maybe M. Emile Was a Lousy Hairdresser, But He Gave His Place Tone

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Crash Dummies, Taking the Hard Knocks For All of Us

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My Dog Has Fleas, Also My Cat, My Bird, My...

These tiny prehistoric parasites have evolved a bold array of weapons, the better to torture their hosts

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When It Comes to Sports For The Brain, Everyone's a Winner

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On Loan From the White House, a Collection of 77 Craft Artists' Works is at the National Museum of American Art

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