Arts & Culture

James McNeill Whistler's palette, c. 1888-90.

Refined Palette

Scholars say this 19th-century artifact could have belonged to the celebrated American painter

Beowulf face to face with fire-breathing dragon

Evildoer

The Beowolf monster is a thousand years old, but his bad old tricks continue to resonate in the modern world

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Young and Restless

Saudi Arabia's baby boomers, born after the 1973 oil embargo, are redefining the kingdom's relationship with the modern world

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Global Wording

If you can't say it in English, just borrow le mot juste

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Have Canine, Will Travel

Our fur-flung correspondents in dogged pursuit

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Review of 'The Worst Hard Time'

The untold story of those who survived the great American Dust Bowl

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Edvard Munch: Beyond The Scream

Though the Norwegian artist is known for a single image, he was one of the most prolific, innovative and influential figures in modern art

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The Power of Prayer

A news photographer in India captures a devotional moment that goes back a thousand years

Munich, Germany

Bone Voyage

On assignment with Europe's most peripatetic canine

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Austria

Mozart: In Search of the Roots of Genius

On the 250th anniversary of the composer's birth, the author scours Salzburg and Vienna for traces of the master's mischievous spirit

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Worlds Apart

Change and constance on sceptered isles

Hojaldres

Bilingual By Breakfast

Only one thing stood between the author and the hojaldras of her desire

The Power of the Printed Word to Stir the World

Every Book Its Reader

The Power of the Printed Word to Stir the World, by Nicholas A. Basbanes

The Overture to Tannhäuser: The Artist's Mother and Sister, 1868, Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

Cézanne

The man who changed the landscape of art

A Mount Rushmore of stardom: Gable (left) cracks a joke at the photographers expense with friends Heflin, Cooper and Stewart.

Grab a Drink With Hollywood's Stars

To photographer Slim Aarons, the biggest stars were auld acquaintances

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Time Traveler

Smithsonian gets a new publisher

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Royal @

In a web-based monarchy, there are no bans on fox-hunting

In most Akan states, gold-ornamented sandals identify a ruler. It is taboo for a chief to walk barefoot; to do so, followers believed, would invite disaster.

West African Gold: Out of the Ordinary

The inventive goldwork and royal regalia of Ghana's Akan people —on display in a new exhibition— are drawn, strikingly, from daily life

Most of the flash equipment was custom-built, but Link (left) and his assistant George Thom also used miners' headlamps while they were setting up shots after dark.

The Big Picture

A well-planned single image yells the story of 20th-century transportation

The Robert N. Stewart Bridge

By Design

Over the past half-century the small town of Columbus, Indiana, has turned itself into a showplace of modern architecture

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