Arts & Culture

Mustard

For the Love of Mustard

Across the continents, the market for this crowd-pleasing condiment is booming

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The Amazing Author of Oz

Evergreen at 100 years old, L. Frank Baum's fable of Dorothy and the wonderful wizard keeps his memory alive with movie fans and readers the world over

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The Timeless Art of Crafts

The Ferengi (left) and Borg (right) designs, both developed by Westmore for Star Trek: The Next Generation

Beauty and the Beasts

Coming from a long line of tortured but brilliant makeup artists, Michael Westmore has put the past behind him, boldly going where no one has gone before

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The Pinhole Point of View

A new generation of photographers is pushing the artistic possibilities of the simple, old-fashioned technique of taking pictures through a hole in a box

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People in Glass Houses...

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From Paper to Pixels

Adult tricycle

Bound for Glory

Or maybe not. America's most grueling adult tricycle competition is tough on riders and equipment alike

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Portraits on the Plains

Armed with easel, palette and pencil, George Catlin went west in the 1830s to paint the real "Wild West"

For the Love of It: Amateuring and Its Rivals

Book Reviews

For the Love of It: Amateuring and Its Rivals

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The Grandeur That Was Rome

A new exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art showcases the Eternal City as the artistic and cultural capital of 18th-century Europe

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Petal Power

Fire on the Mountain: The True Story of the South Canyon Fire

Fire on the Mountain

"The Basque History of the World" By Mark Kurlansky

Earning a Halo Can Stink to High Heaven

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In Praise of Pianos and the Artists Who Play Them

MASS MoCA

A Unique Home for Cutting-edge Art

MASS MoCA, the nation's newest and largest center for the contemporary arts, has brought a blue-collar New England town back to the future

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Scythian Gold

An exhibition of treasures from ancient Ukraine illuminates a great warrior culture, notable for its relentless ferocity and remarkable art

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Two for Tea

America's only commercial tea crop is grown on an island with plants more than a century old

The Tulip: The Story of the Flower That Has Made Men Mad

Review of 'The Tulip: The Story of a Flower That Has Made Men Mad'

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