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Man Ray

Man Ray’s Signature Work

Artist Man Ray mischievously scribbled his name in a famous photograph, but it took decades for the gesture to be discovered
November 10, 2009 | By Abby Callard

Kareem and Haneen Sesame Street

Meet Sesame Street's Global Cast of Characters

Over the course of the 40 years that the program has been on the air, Sesame Street has spawned versions in countries around the world
November 06, 2009 | By Abby Callard

Jackson Pollock 1943 Mural

Decoding Jackson Pollock

Did the Abstract Expressionist hide his name amid the swirls and torrents of a legendary 1943 mural?
November 2009 | By Henry Adams

Worthington Minnesota

From Brooklyn to Worthington, Minnesota

Novelist Tim O'Brien revisits his past to come to terms with his rural hometown
November 2009 | By Tim O'Brien

John Marshall filming

Recording the Ju/'hoansi for Posterity

For 50 years, John Marshall documented one of Africa's last remaining hunter- gatherer tribes in more than 700 hours of film footage
November 2009 | By Amanda Bensen

Ansel Adams Sunrise Death Valley

Ansel Adams in Color

As a new book shows, not everything in the photographer's philosophy was black and white
November 2009 | By Richard B. Woodward

Journal entry janice lowry

Drawn From Life

Artist Janice Lowry's illustrated diaries record her history—and ours
November 2009 | By Owen Edwards

Lytton Strachey

Historical Laughter

Those who don't have power tend to make fun of those who do. But what happens when the power shifts?
November 2009 | By Lance Morrow

Randy Olson Flock of Dodos

Are Scientists or Moviemakers the Bigger Dodos?

Scientist-turned-filmmaker Randy Olson says that academics must be more like Hollywood in how they share their love for science
October 30, 2009 | By Abby Callard

Hazel Scott

Hazel Scott’s Lifetime of High Notes

She began her career as a musical prodigy and ended up breaking down racial barriers in the recording and film industries
October 16, 2009 | By Karen Chilton

Irving Berlin

Jewish Songwriters, American Songs

Poet David Lehman talks about the brilliant Jewish composers and lyricists whose work largely comprises the great American songbook
October 07, 2009 | By Jamie Katz

Documents in Guatemala police station

A Human Rights Breakthrough in Guatemala

A chance discovery of police archives may reveal the fate of tens of thousands of people who disappeared in Guatemala's civil war
October 2009 | By Julian Smith

Frank Chance

Portraits of Baseball's Tinker, Evers and Chance

The famed Chicago Cubs infielders were immortalized in verse—as well as through Paul Thompson's lens
October 2009 | By Harry Katz

The Temptations Motown

Motown Turns 50

For years, the recording industry excluded black artists. Along came Motown, and suddenly everyone was singing its tunes
September 29, 2009 | By Marian Smith Holmes

Lester Young

Lester Young Turns 100

Billie Holiday’s favorite musician, jazz great Lester “Prez” Young brought a hip, freewheeling sensibility to his saxophone playing
August 25, 2009 | By Jamie Katz

Charles Atlas tug of war with Rockettes

Charles Atlas: Muscle Man

How the original 97-pound-weakling transformed himself and brought physical fitness to the masses
August 2009 | By Jonathan Black

Ernest Hemingway with his wife Mary

A New Taste of Hemingway’s Moveable Feast

The re-edited version of Ernest Hemingway’s Paris-based memoir sheds new light on the heartbreaking breakup of his first marriage
July 27, 2009 | By Chloë Schama

Pantyhose

50 Years of Pantyhose

Love them or hate them, the once-ubiquitous women’s accessory was a revolutionary invention that helped transform women’s fashion
July 08, 2009 | By Joseph Caputo

SR-71 aircraft

The Ultimate Spy Plane

The SR-71 Blackbird, now featured in the Transformers movie sequel, was faster than a rifle bullet and flew 16 miles above the earth
July 2009 | By Owen Edwards

The Wizard of Oz Yellow Brick Road

Frank Baum, the Man Behind the Curtain

The author of The Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum, traveled many paths before he found his Yellow Brick Road
June 26, 2009 | By Chloë Schama


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