Articles

Helen Frankenthaler’s Mountains and Sea, 1952

Lyrical Methodology

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Trash to Treasure

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Joseph Cornell: Navigating the Imagination

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Pyramid Ages the Aztecs

For Your Viewing Enjoyment

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Tied Together Through the Generations

Sardines

Good News-bad News in a Tin of Sardines

David Hockney’s A Bigger Splash, 1967

Hello New Year

American Mine (Nevada 1), 2007 Tailing ponds from gold mines outside of Elko, Nevada.

Danger Zones

Warning: David Maisel's aerial landscapes may be hazardous to your assumptions

A spectacular new gallery at the Air and Space Museum (the nose of a 747) charts the history of an astonishing triumph—air travel.

From the Castle

Aero Dynamic

Oversize expectations: The Great Eastern vessel was supposed to cap the career of its ill-fated designer, Isambard Kingdom Brunel (before the huge ship’s launching chains).

Big News

In matters of sheer magnitude, Robert Howlett got the picture

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The Last Page: Duck and Cover

An awkward case of the Cordon blues

Van Gogh painted this portrait of himself, dressed as a bourgeois, in Paris, where he stayed with his brother Theo and continued to hone his painting skills. Van Gogh's brief flirtation with the separate, dappled brushstrokes of pointillism is evident in this early effort, which is one of his best paintings from 1887. (Self-Portrait: Three Quarters to the Right)

Letters from Vincent

Never-before-exhibited correspondence from van Gogh to a protégé displays a thoughtful exacting side of the artist

Curator Jake Homiak (right) and adviser Ras Maurice Clarke make the sign of the trinity, a Rastafarian symbol of reverence.

Rasta Revealed

A reclamation of African identity evolved into a worldwide cultural, religious and political movement

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What's Up

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Letters

Readers Respond to the November Issue

Ernie LaPointe and his family are the closest living relatives of Sitting Bull.

Making History

Giving Back

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Norman Foster

Architect norman foster designed the glass canopy at the Smithsonian's Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture. He spoke with Jess Blumberg.

Pete Seeger, 1986.

Jukebox

Seeger Singalong

Explorer 1 satellite

Explorer I Satellite

In 1958, Explorer 1 launched America's response to the USSR's Sputnik

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