Living With Geese
Novelist and gozzard Paul Theroux ruminates about avian misconceptions, anthropomorphism and March of the Penguins as "a travesty of science"
December 2006 |
By Paul Theroux
Through the Mill
Because of a Lewis Hine photograph, Addie Card became the poster child of child labor. But what became of Addie Card?
September 2006 |
By Elizabeth Winthrop
David Hockney and Friends
Though the artist doesn't think of himself as a painter of portraits, a new exhibition makes the case that they are key to his work.
August 2006 |
By Matthew Gurewitsch
Morning In America
Space shuttle-watchers took their place in the sun, not yet awakened to the true risks of exploring the heavens.
August 2006 |
By Henry Allen
Uncovering the History of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
The author behind the authoritative retelling of the 1911 fire describes how he researched the tragedy that killed 146 people
August 2006 |
By David von Drehle
Wyeth's World
In the wake of his death, controversy still surrounds painter Andrew Wyeth's stature as a major American artist
June 2006 |
By Henry Adams
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
