Arts & Culture

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Animal Magnetism

Gregory Colbert's haunting photographs, exhibited publicly for the first time in the US, hint at an extraordinary bond between us and our fellow creatures

Jon Broderick

Rhyme or Cut Bait

When these fisher poets gather, nobody brags about the verse that got away

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Lucky Man

A stroke of astonishing good fortune that even the author's skeptical father might embrace

Mann now uses an old view camera.

Model Family

Sally Mann's unflinching photographs of her children have provoked controversy, but one of her now-grown daughters wonders what all the fuss was about

"Babai" Photographer: Kochi, 13 Kochi lives in a Calcutta boarding school, where she has learned English. "I feel shy taking pictures outside," she says. "People taunt us. They say, 'Where did they bring those cameras from?'"

Young Eyes on Calcutta

Zana Briski and collaborator Ross Kauffman's Academy Award winning documentary chronicals the resilience of children in a Calcutta red-light district

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Toulouse-Lautrec

The fin de sià¨cle artist who captured Paris' cabarets and dance halls is drawing crowds to a new exhibition at Washington, D.C.'s National Gallery of Art

Portrait of Salvador Dalí, Paris

Catalonia

The Surreal World of Salvador Dalí

Genius or madman? A new exhibition may help you decide

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The Old Ballgames

Civil rights chronicler Ernest Withers also photographed the glories of black baseball, including pioneering big leaguer Jackie Robinson

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Prescient and Accounted For

A century after his death, novelist Jules Verne, who imagined Moon flight and deep-sea voyages, looks more prophetic than ever

The nomads who traversed Utah's rough terrain scratched, pecked and painted thousands of images onto cliff walls, creating rock art known today as the Barrier Canyon style. The earliest painting at Black Dragon Canyon (above) is thought to be more than 8,000 years old.

Traces of a Lost People

Who roamed the Colorado Plateau thousands of years ago? And what do their stunning paintings signify?

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Modigliani: Misunderstood

A new exhibition positions the bohemian artist's work above even his operatic life story

Kertész (in his 80s, c. 1975) made his name in Paris (Under the Eiffel Tower, 1929).

Hungarian Rhapsody

In a 70-year career that began in Budapest, André Kertész pioneered modern photography, as a new exhibition makes clear

Central Park

Christo Does Central Park

After a quarter century's effort, the wrap artist and his wife, Jeanne-Claude, blaze a saffron trail in New York City

One Per Customer

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Last Call

Hang-ups are an occupational hazard

Peterson, who has recorded more than 400 albums, "never had a breakout hit," says Downbeat critic John McDonough. Still, many fans consider "Tenderly" his signature song.

Return of a Virtuoso

Following a debilitating stroke, the incomparable jazz pianist Oscar Peterson had to start over

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James Boswell's Scotland

The author of the Life of Samuel Johnson spent much of his own life trying to escape the country of his birth

Channel Islands Foxes; Eddie Grant...

Readers respond to the October issue

Alan Grant photographed Jayne Mansfield in 1957 in her Hollywood swimming pool, among hot-water bottles in her image, which now fetch hundreds of dollars each on Internet auction sites. "I could have been a multimillionare [if I'd saved some]," jokes Grant.

Slices of Life

From Hollywood to Buchenwald, and Manhattan to the Kalahari, the magazine pioneered photojournalism as we know it. A new book shows how

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Peter Pan Turns 100

But the boy who never grew up shows no signs of getting old

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