A new book and a Paris arts center pay homage to photography's elusive 95-year-old grand master
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Reading Lolita in Tehran
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Self-taught artists and their fans mingle each fall at Alabama's up close and personal Kentuck Festival
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Today's obituary writers sum up lives famous and not with pans as well as paeans
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Julia Margaret Cameron's evocative photographs of Lord Tennyson and other 19th-century British notables pioneered the art of portraiture
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In 1821, the French carved a classical Greek sculpture. In the Venus de Milo, they thought they finally had one. Never mind that it wasn't really classical
Looking up his high school Permanent Record Card leaves our author curiously grateful for his failings
In a new book, a British journalist documents the day-by-day march into conflict in Iraq
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Groundbreaking art shines at the extraordinary new Dia: Beacon museum on New York's Hudson River
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Berkeley researchers toil to stay abreast of Samuel Clemens' enormous literary output, which appears to continue unabated
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Richard Waterman's never-before-published photographs caught the roots music legends at their down-home best
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Photographer Alex Webb captured a moment that showed, he says, the "continuity of life in the face of disaster"
Five Categories, 50 Finalists, Six Winners
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The Cooper-Hewitt explores the wide-ranging impact of historical and contemporary designs
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The Stranger and the Statesman: James Smithson, John Quincy Adams, and the Making of America's Greatest Museum
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Bold, garish and steamy cover images from popular pulp-fiction magazines of the 1930s and '40s have made their way from newsstands to museum walls
Exquisite art and artifacts from the world's earliest civilization are dazzling visitors to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Photographer Bob Adelman's picture of Martin Luther King, Jr., taken 40 years ago, captures one of the greatest speeches in American history
I can forgive the French for almost anything. Except dessert
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A groundbreaking chronicle sheds new light on one of the most dramatic chapters in American history
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