Time and Again
In 1984, Peter Feldstein set out to photograph every last person in Oxford, Iowa. Two decades later, he's doing it again, creating a unique portrait of heartland America
June 2006 |
By Stephen G. Bloom
Dada
The irreverent, rowdy revolution set the trajectory of 20th-century art
May 2006 |
By Paul Trachtman
Forging its Own Future
Dedicated metalsmiths help a Memphis museum revive a lost American art form
May 2006 |
By Matt Dellinger
Tray Bon!
Thanksgiving leftovers260 tons in allgave birth to an industry
December 2004 |
By Owen Edwards
Comedy Central
"Your Show of Shows," starring Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca, pioneered madcap TV humor in the 1950s.
September 2004 |
By Owen Edwards
Making Copies
At first, nobody bought Chester Carlson's strange idea. But trillions of documents later, his invention is the biggest thing in printing since Gutenburg
August 2004 |
By David Owen
Return of a Giant
A fully restored VulcanBirmingham, Alabama's 100-year-old statueresumes it's rightful place in town
March 2004 |
By Jeff Book
Prize Fight
Raymond Damadian refuses to take his failure to win a Nobel Prize, for a prototype MRI machine, lying down
December 2003 |
By Rick Weiss
Beacon of Light
Groundbreaking art shines at the extraordinary new Dia: Beacon museum on New York's Hudson River
September 2003 |
By Amei Wallach
Finally, the Top of the World
A witness to the first ascent of Mount Everest 50 years ago this month recalls Edmund Hillary's aplomb, Tenzing Norgay's grace and other glories of the "last earthly adventure"
May 2003 |
By Jan Morris
Iraq's Unruly Century
Ever since Britain carved the nation out of the Ottoman Empire after World War I, the land long known as Mesopotamia has been wracked by instability
May 2003 |
By Jonathan Kandell
Frida Kahlo
The Mexican artist's myriad faces, stranger-than-fiction biography and powerful paintings come to vivid life in a new film
November 2002 |
By Phyllis Tuchman
It's a Wurlitzer
The giant of the musical instrument collection makes tunesrootin'tootin' or romantic
April 2002 |
By Mary K. Miller
Meet Me at the Automat
Horn & Hardart gave big city Americans a taste of good fast food in its chrome-and-glass restaurants
August 2001 |
By Carolyn Hughes Crowley
Reaching Toward Space
His 1935 rocket was a technological tour de force, but Robert H. Goddard hid it from history.
February 2001 |
By Tom D. Crouch
Libba Cotten's Guitar
Left-handed, she taught herself to play, wrote the folk classic "Freight Train" and sang into her 90s
October 2000 |
By Marika Carley
The Last Schoolhouse
When a handful of senior citizens revisit the school they attended years ago, they become children again
August 2000 |
By Rudolph Chelminski
Othmar Ammann's Glory
Genius, willpower and thousands of miles of steel wire went into the George Washington Bridge
October 1999 |
By Valerie Jablow
Reds versus Whites
A masterpiece in porcelain replays old struggles between Bolshevik and Czarist opponents
July 1999 |
By Edwards Park
A Painter of Angels Became the Father of Camouflage
Turn-of-the-century artist Abbott Thayer created images of timeless beauty and a radical theory of concealing coloration
April 1999 |
By Richard Meryman
