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Arts & Culture Beats

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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

An exhibition of Depression-era paintings by federally-funded artists provides a hopeful view of life during economic travails
June 2009 | By Jerry Adler

As the first of the New Deal acts that funded public art projects with federal money, the PWAP produced more than 15,000 works of art in just six months
May 19, 2009 | By David A. Taylor

At the National Portrait Gallery, artist David Lenz pays tribute to a champion for the intellectually disabled
May 11, 2009 | By Barbara Sanford

A painter by training, Edward Steichen changed fashion photography forever
May 2009 | By Owen Edwards

An associate of Andy Warhol, Gerard Malanga reflects on his subjects and his career as a photographer
April 14, 2009 | By Jeff Campagna

Half a millennium later, the story of the painting of the Sistine Chapel is as fascinating as Michelangelo’s masterpiece itself
April 10, 2009 | By Jamie Katz

Astrophysicist Don Olson breaks down the barriers between science and art by analyzing literature and paintings from the past
April 2009 | By Jennifer Drapkin and Sarah Zielinski

April 22, 2009 | By Megan Gambino

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