Articles

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Interview with G. Wayne Clough

Smithsonian Institution's 12th Secretary discusses his new role, his distinguished career in education and his favorite artifact

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The Fog Lifts

As it always does, given enough time

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Letters

Readers Respond to the March Issue

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Model Arrangement

In Milton Greene, Marilyn Monroe found a friend as well as a photographer who captured the range of her vibrant personality

Bhutan meets Texas (El Paso's campus) at the Folklife Festival

From the Castle

GNP or GNH?

A soup tureen by Meissonnier

Curves Ahead

At the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Rococo experiences a revival

Lennie Foy

Jukebox

Hot Horns

Irving Berlin's piano

Ivory Merchant

Composer Irving Berlin wrote scores of hits on his custom-built instrument

G. Wayne Clough

Turning a Page

Smithsonian regents tap engineer, educator G. Wayne Clough as the Institution's next Secretary

Aaron Douglas, Aspiration, 1936, oil on canvas.

What's Up

Searching for new ways of seeing, Homer settled in Cullercoats, England, where he created heroic views of his neighbors (Four Fishwives, 1881) in watercolor.

Hidden Depths

Winslow Homer took watercolors to new levels. A Chicago exhibition charts the elusive New Englander's mastery

Winslow Homer

Beneath the Surface

A high-tech investigation helps explain Winslow Homer's staying power

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On the Job: Choreographer

Choreographer Lori Belilove pays homage to Isadora Duncan, the mother of contemporary dance

Lunt Harbor, looking toward the mountains of Acadia National Park

The Life and Times of a Maine Island

An excerpt from a history of Frenchboro, Long Island, one of Maine's last remaining year-round island communities

View of the National Mall

Washington, D.C.

A Brief History of Pierre L’Enfant and Washington, D.C.

How one Frenchman’s vision became our capital city

A Parisian Ball - dancing at the Marbille, Paris. Drawn by Winslow Homer.

“No More Long Faces”

Did Winslow Homer have a broken heart?

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May Anniversaries

Momentous or Merely Memorable

Brontosaurus skeleton sketch

Where Dinosaurs Roamed

Footprints at one of the nation's oldest—and most fought over—fossil beds offer new clues to how the behemoths lived

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Goodbye, Columbus

A new survey upends the conventional wisdom about who counts in American history

An American alligator

Wild Things: Life as We Know It

America's oldest primate, ocean dead zones and alligator lungs

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