At Moab, Music Among the Red Rocks
The Moab Music Festival features world-class music in an unparalleled natural setting
Lost & Found
Ancient gold artifacts from Afghanistan, hidden for more than a decade, dazzle in a new exhibition
Four for a Quarter
Photographer Nakki Goranin shows how the once ubiquitous photobooth captured the many faces of 20th-century America
Day of the Iguanas
On a morning in a Oaxacan market, photographer Graciela Iturbide made one of the most enduring images of Zapotec life
Botticelli Comes Ashore
With the purchase of Botticelli’s Death of Lucretia, Isabella Stewart Gardner took American collecting in a new direction
Q & A: Cynthia Saltzman
The author of Old Masters, New World discusses how 19th century American collectors acquired European masterpieces and what it meant for museums and our nation.
Nancy Knowlton
The renowned coral reef biologist leads Smithsonian's effort to foster a greater publich understanding of the world's oceans.
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See this week’s top picks from submissions to the 6th Annual Photo Contest as selected by Smithsonian Photo Editors
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Coral Reefs and Creatures
The Phoenix Islands provide an unspoiled center for marine science
Inside the Photobooth
Collector Nakki Goranin leads a tour of her collection
Underwater Volcano
A remote camera captures the first-ever video of an erupting underwater volcano
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September 2008
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Wagner’s Ring Cycle at the Met
Experience the magnificance of Wagner's Ring Cycle plus a new production of Verdi's Il Trovatore
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