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At his Tennessee museum, John Rice Irwin's love for his mountain upbringing puts people in touch with a fast-disappearing way of life
In modern Western square dancing, you still see lots of petticoats and legs, but there are new calls, new steps and new rules
Bought on a whim for the price of a painting, J. Alden Weir's farm, now a National Historic Site, became a place to redefine American art
From 1895 to 1912 in her Pocatello studio, Benedicte Wrensted produced telling portraits of Northern Shoshone and Bannock Indians
The religious life was a lot more rigid back in Detroit in the 1940s
Long ago, they found a talent or a cause, a way of life or a way of work, then stuck with it—and said to hell with what other people think
The Japanese master has devoted his life to reviving a long-lost technique of fabric design and to creating handcrafted kimonos of lasting beauty
Sliced or chopped, sauteed or roasted, this bold little bulb has Americans clamoring for cloves to add sizzle to supper or to cure what ails us
Retired singers, musicians and conductors find a home in Milan, Italy, where a zest for music works like a fountain of youth
The expatriate American poet returned home in ignominy, and the postwar world watched as a literary giant was charged with treason
His style was widely imitated, even in his own time; now, a show at the Met guides us through the maze of attribution problems
Alan Fern, director of the National Portrait Gallery, offers his insights on the art of reading a portrait
At the University of Mississippi, the first annual International Conference on Elvis Presley brought together fans and scholars
It's a must-see show at the National Gallery of Art; not since 1696 have so many of his paintings been brought together in one place
Two-thousand-year-old mummy paintings show neither gods nor heroes but the sophisticated men and women of the provinces of Roman Egypt
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