Children's books by celebrities are as old as the Dead Sea Scrolls. Here are our favorites
As a new exhibition makes clear, these friends and rivals spurred each other to change the course of 20th-century art
Learning to love complexity
Martin Scorsese's realistic portrayal of pre-Civil War strife Gangs of New York re-creates the brutal street warfare waged between immigrant groups
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Laura Hillenbrand beat the odds to write the hit horse-racing saga while fighting chronic fatigue syndrome, a disorder starting to reveal its secrets
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An exhibition at the Renwick Gallery in Washington, D.C. asks: Did his work exploit or advance the American Indian?
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Michael Beschloss re-creates the 1945 Potsdam Conference at which Harry Truman found his presidential voice and determined the shape of postwar Europe
By introducing a note of modesty, Marilyn Monroe's gloves actually heightened her come-hither allure
Smithsonian Notable Books for Children 2002
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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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