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Goya and His Women

An exhibition at Washington's National Gallery of Art takes a fresh look at one of Spain's most celebrated artists and the women he painted

The carcass of a cargo ship, already sheared of its forward structure, sits where it was parked on the beach at Chittagong, Bangladesh, flanked by two other scrapped vessels in various states of dismemberment.

Multiple Viewpoints

Photographer Edward Burtynsky's politically charged industrial landscapes are carefully crafted to elicit different interpretations

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Shades of Merriment

Robert Capa, famous for his battle photographs, made friends along the way

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Sweet Taste of Spring

The season's first sap makes the finest maple syrup— but not without some backbreaking labors of love

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Table Talk

A magazine should have the zest of a good dinner party

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Flights of Fancy

Orlando Martinez, who lives and breathes the age-old sport of pigeon racing, goes for the Main Event

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Cavendish, Vermont 1981 What did the Russian author like about the United States? "[He] told me the air was free in America," Benson recalls.

Cheeky Charmer

For half a century, photographer Harry Benson has been talking his way to the top of his game

Edgar Degas rarely painted a pure still life, but he often included still lifes in the backgrounds or corners of his compositions. In The Millinery Shop (1882-86), the hats—their shapes, textures and colors—take center stage; the figure is merely an accessory.

Still Delightful

A sumptuous show documents how the Impressionists breathed new life into the staid tradition of still life painting

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Migrant Madonna

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Behind the Lines: Role Models

Our writers explore new worlds in time and space

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Harp Hero

Endangered instruments tug one musician's heartstrings

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Of Mies and Mice

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Just Folk

From samplers to sugar bowls, weathervanes to whistles, an engaging exhibition heralds the opening of the American Folk Art Museum's new home in Manhattan

Two wives alternate the responsibility for preparing meals, which involves making the fire, grinding the grain and preparing ngome, breakfast cakes of pounded millet or rice, salt and oil. The cakes are also sold.

What's for Dinner?

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Master of Middle Earth

When J.R.R. Tolkien finally completed his Lord of the Rings trilogy in 1949, the Oxford don scarcely imagined his fantasy epic would entrance readers

Ao dais make striking uniforms for four university students heading home after classes. Long gloves and hats provide welcome protection from the sun in a land where a suntan is not considered fashionable; masks serve as barriers to dust and exhaust.

Silk Robes and Cell Phones

Three decades after Frances FitzGerald won a Pulitzer Prize for Fire in the Lake, her classic work on Vietnam, she returned with photojournalist Mary Cross

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The Thousand-Yard Stare

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October Surprise

Any other year, giving reactionary author V. S. Naipaul a Nobel Prize would have sparked debate

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Strange Bedfellows

A new exhibition tracks the turbulent nine weeks that artists Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin lived and painted together in the South of France

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Fresh Eyes

It turns out the America portrayed by printmakers Currier and Ives was not all sleigh rides in the snow

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