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Was Leonardo da Vinci's famous anatomical chart actually a collaborative effort?
February 2012
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The 36-year-old pop artist and Pixar veteran brings a modern twist to the gods and demons of Hindu mythology
December 21, 2011
| By Jeff Greenwald
In a new book and exhibition, the esteemed photographer pursues a passion for history and lets us see familiar icons in a fresh light
January 2012
| By Terence Monmaney
Like the Steins, other collectors and patrons influenced 20th-century art by supporting new genres and unheralded artists
January 2012
| By Arthur Lubow
It's easy to see the value of a Picasso painting now. But would you have bought one in 1905, before the artist was known? These siblings did.
January 2012
| By Arthur Lubow
A new museum devoted exclusively to the work of the abstract painter is opening in Denver. A leading critic takes a close look at one masterwork
December 2011
| By Peter Plagens
Michael Heizer waited decades to find the perfect rock for his Levitated Mass, and now he awaits its slow journey from the quarry to an L.A. art museum
November 09, 2011
| By Michal Lemberger
Beloved by 19th-century audiences around the world, the African-American artist fell into obscurity, only to be celebrated as a genius more than a century later
October 19, 2011
| By Lucinda Moore
A new exhibition of American wonders underscores the debt our country owes to its waterways
November 2011
| By Daniel Walker Howe
The "dedicated amateur" photographer had a strange way of getting his subjects to reveal themselves
November 2011
| By David Zax
A 1934 barnstorming visit to her native country transformed Stein from a noteworthy but rarely glimpsed author into a national celebrity
October 14, 2011
| By Megan Gambino
Through mastering calligraphy in college, Jobs learned to think like an artist
October 06, 2011
| By Henry Adams
Later in his career, the 20th century painter explored abstract art in numerous large paintings, now on view in a new Smithsonian exhibit
September 23, 2011
| By Megan Gambino
A curator from the Hirshhorn Museum explains how art historians define the two classifications
September 23, 2011
| By Megan Gambino
A new major retrospective recounts the artist's seven-decade career and never-ending experimentation
October 2011
| By Mark Stevens
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September 15, 2011
| By Smithsonian magazine
An art installation that spontaneously appeared after the terrorist attacks returns to New York City
September 10, 2011
| By Susan Spano
Charles Conlon’s classic photographs of baseball players from the early 20th century offer a glimpse into a familiar sport at an otherworldly time
September 01, 2011
| By David Davis
As photographer William Wegman tells it, his cinnamon-gray Weimaraner wasn't content to just sit and stay
September 2011
| By David Schonauer
The famous inventor's painting of Gallery of the Louvre is as much a fascinating work of art as a 19th century history lesson
August 17, 2011
| By Megan Gambino
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