Arts & Culture

William Chadwick Jr. and a team from the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration were the fist to video tape an erupting underwater volcano

Underwater Discovery

Watch an erupting underwater volcano

A canoe Doug Chilton and other Tlingit artisans crafted using techniques mastered by their Alaskan ancestors

Spirit of the Sea

Tlingit artisans craft a canoe that embodies their culture's oceangoing past

"Science on a Sphere" illustrates satellite data on multiple aspects of the ocean.

From the Castle

Deep Science

"Only one photo from the 12 I took of her was good, because it was the only one where the iguanas raised their heads as if they were posing," Iturbide says of the picture Nuestra Senora de las Iguanas, 1979

Day of the Iguanas

On a morning in a Oaxacan market, photographer Graciela Iturbide made one of the most enduring images of Zapotec life

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Letters

Readers Respond to the July Issue

The view from the back of the grotto looking toward the Colorado River during a Moab Music Festival concert

At Moab, Music Among the Red Rocks

The Moab Music Festival features world-class music in an unparalleled natural setting

Brooklyn Museum of Art vs. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

A Bright Spot in van Gogh's Starry Night

Author of Old Masters, New World Cynthia Saltzman

Q&A: Cynthia Saltzman

The author of Old Masters, New World discusses how 19th century American collectors acquired European masterpieces

The Tragedy of Lucretia, Sandro Botticelli, ca. 1500-1501

Botticelli Comes Ashore

With the purchase of Botticelli’s Death of Lucretia, Isabella Stewart Gardner took American collecting in a new direction

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A Sculpture's Crash Landing at the Royal Academy

A tribal birth in India

Be a Smithsonian Winner

The 6th Annual Smithsonian Photo Contest closes Dec. 1. Submit your best snapshots for consideration now

Isidre Nonell, La Paloma, 1904

Learning More About Spanish Modernism

tomato stacks

Tomato Recipes

Chef Craig Von Foerster of Sierra Mar Restaurant at the Post Ranch Inn in Big Sur, California shares two of his favorite tomato recipes

Rick Perlstein

Rick Perlstein on "Parties to History"

Alonzo Hamby.

Alonzo Hamby on "Parties to History"

Lewis L. Gould

Lewis L. Gould on "Parties to History"

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Kenneth R. Fletcher on "The Beach"

Arthur Allen

Arthur Allen on "A Passion for Tomatoes"

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More With Richard Misrach

The Photographer explains how a series of beach pictures were inspired by the events of September 11

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