Smithsonian Magazine: April 2002
Features
Goya and His Women
An exhibition at Washington's National Gallery of Art takes a fresh look at one of Spain's most celebrated artists and the women he painted
By Stanley Meisler
Ping-Pong Diplomacy
Blending statecraft and sport, table tennis matches between American and Chinese athletes set the stage for Nixon's breakthrough with the People's Republic
By David A. DeVoss
Lost at Sea
What's killing the great Atlantic salmon?
By Michael Parfit
Rising Sun
Opening this month on Alexandria's Mediterranean waterfront, the Bibliotheca Alexandrina reflects the spirit of its ancient forebear
By Bruce Watson
Multiple Viewpoints
Photographer Edward Burtynsky's politically charged industrial landscapes are carefully crafted to elicit different interpretations
By Sean Callahan
Building to a Different Drummer
Today's timber frame revivalists are putting up everything from millionaire mansions to a replica of Thoreau's cabin
By David Sims
Absence of Malice
In a new book, Historian Ronald C. White, Jr., explains why Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address, given just weeks before he died, was his greatest speech
By Ronald C. White, Jr.
Departments
Indelible Images
Shades of Merriment
Robert Capa, famous for his battle photographs, made friends along the way
By Smithsonian magazine
Points of Interest
Sweet Taste of Spring
The season's first sap makes the finest maple syrupbut not without some backbreaking labors of love
By Chris Granstrom
The Object at Hand
It's a Wurlitzer
The giant of the musical instrument collection makes tunesrootin'tootin' or romantic
By Mary K. Miller
Phenomena & Curiosities
Crystal Moonbeams
A pair of Mexican miners stumble upon a room filled with what could be the world's largest crystals
By John F. Ross
People File
A Model Son
Chesapeake Bay's maritime history comes alive in miniature wood carvings by a Maryland craftsman
By Wendy Mitman Clarke
Presence of Mind
Wittgenstein's Ghost
When two philosophers nearly came to blows, they defined a debate that rages a half century later
By Paul Trachtman
