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The Mexican artist's myriad faces, stranger-than-fiction biography and powerful paintings come to vivid life in a new film
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Our 2002 profile of architect Maya Lin that marked the 20th year of the Vietnam Memorial
The portrait that took the photographic world by swarm
A fiery installation draws crowds in Providence, Rhode Island, illuminating a "daylighting" trend
Book Reviews
Thanks to the mega-selling Worst-Case Scenario handbooks, we now know how to cope with charging bulls, plunging elevators and runaway locomotives
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Like generations of painters before them, artists from around the globe go to Paris to copy the masterpieces at the Louvre
Artist Peter Waddell's scrupulously researched paintings of the U.S. Capitol bring history to life
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Dragon's drool, frog's glands and shark's stomachs have all been recruited for the fight against drug-resistant bacteria
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First Virgil Johnson gave up smoking. Then he gave up his breathtaking collection of tobacco-nalia
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A French photographer's aerial portraits of Iceland's Blue Lagoon, cotton bales in Ivory Coast, a tulip field in Holland document a world of fragile beauty
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From the Maigue poets to Ogden Nash, witty wordsmiths have delighted in composing the oft-risqué five-line verses
A summer festival showcases the wit and artistry of the musical-theater master, drawing "nuts" from all over
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In Barcelona, a yearlong celebration spotlights architecture's playful genius the audacious and eccentric Antoni Gaudí
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A new play and photo exhibition call attention to Ida B. Wells and her brave fight to end lynching in America
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