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From the late-19th century to the 1970s, restaurants had one surefire way of standing out
The Story Behind Banksy
On his way to becoming an international icon, the subversive and secretive street artist turned the art world upside-down
Flower Power, Redefined
In a new book, Andrew Zuckerman embraces minimalism, capturing 150 colorful blooms on white backdrops
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Unknown and forgotten to history, these painters of America's great landscapes are finally getting their due in a new exhibition
July 21, 2010
| By Judith H. Dobrzynski
George Lucas and Stephen Spielberg found inspiration for their films in the work of one of America’s most cherished illustrators
July 07, 2010
| By Owen Edwards
From Back to the Future to the Terminator franchise, Hollywood has many strange and scary ideas of what will happen by 2050
June 30, 2010
| By Brian Wolly
The director of Avatar and Terminator talks about future sequels, 3-D television and Hollywood in 2050
August 2010
| By Lorenza Muñoz
The director of the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum predicts how art will engage us as never before
August 2010
| By Richard Koshalek
The late-night talk show host discusses how America's changing demographics will affect what makes people laugh
August 2010
| By Lorenza Muñoz
Threatened Buddhist art at a 900-year-old monastery high in the Indian Himalayas sheds light on a fabled civilization
April 2010
| By Jeremy Kahn
January 26, 2011 | By Megan Gambino
Late in life, the French impressionist's career took an unexpected turn. A new exhibition showcases his radical move toward tradition
February 2010
| By Richard Covington
Rare artworks from an unsurpassed collection evoke the inner lives and secret rites of Australia’s indigenous people
January 2010
| By Arthur Lubow
A new book offers a revealing look at how the artist created his homey illustrations for The Saturday Evening Post
December 2009
| By Richard B. Woodward
Artist Man Ray mischievously scribbled his name in a famous photograph, but it took decades for the gesture to be discovered
November 10, 2009
| By Abby Callard
As a new book shows, not everything in the photographer's philosophy was black and white
November 2009
| By Richard B. Woodward
Balancing the two lives of a Washington, D.C. sculptor—1950s hostess and emergent artist
September 30, 2009
| By Katy June-Friesen
Two new exhibitions celebrate the enduring wares of ceramics designer and entrepreneur Josiah Wedgwood
September 29, 2009
| By Nancy Mann Jackson
Did the Abstract Expressionist hide his name amid the swirls and torrents of a legendary 1943 mural?
November 2009
| By Henry Adams
New research may shed light on a nearly century-old theory that a sculpture thought to be ancient Greek may be da Vinci’s work
September 18, 2009
| By Marian Smith Holmes
Are figures in a Florentine altar panel attributed to Italian artist Andrea del Verrocchio actually by Leonardo da Vinci?
October 2009
| By Ann Landi
At New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art, Amy Herman schools police in the fine art of deductive observation
October 2009
| By Neal Hirschfeld
Bill T. Jones, one of America’s foremost living choreographers, tackles Lincoln’s complicated legacy in his newest work
September 11, 2009
| By Rebecca Milzoff
Continuing a Washington tradition, the Obamas selected artwork from the Smithsonian collections to hang in their historic home
August 04, 2009
| By Abby Callard
At 82, the pathbreaking painter known for stylized figurative works has never been in more demand
August 2009
| By Cathleen McGuigan
António Ole and Aimé Mpane came together to converse through artwork in a new insallation at the National Museum of African Art
June 23, 2009
| By Joseph Caputo
For decades, the photographer has documented the physical and cultural changes in Harlem and other American urban communities
June 02, 2009
| By Jamie Katz
With his Botanica Magnifica, podiatrist-turned-photographer Jonathan Singer captures flowers on the grandest of scales
May 21, 2009
| By Megan Gambino
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