Ivory Merchant
Composer Irving Berlin wrote scores of hits on his custom-built instrument
May 2008 |
By Owen Edwards
The Life Aquatic with Bruce Mozert
When the photographer gazed into the crystalline waters of Silver Springs, Florida, in 1938, he saw nothing but possibilities
May 2008 |
By Gary Monroe
Comrades and Arms
When Fidel Castro asked for a show of hands in support of his new policies, an American journalist captured the response
April 2008 |
By Guy Gugliotta
Decade by Decade
Explore some of the most significant achievements made by women in the past century
March 01, 2008 |
By Candice Lo
Breuer Chair, 1926
Marcel Breuer's Bauhaus minimalism redefined a household basic
February 2008 |
By Owen Edwards
Sound and Fury
Norman Mailer's anger and towering ego propelled-and undermined-his prodigious output
January 2008 |
By Lance Morrow
Explorer I Satellite
In 1958, Explorer 1 launched America's response to the USSR's Sputnik
January 2008 |
By Owen Edwards
Married, With Camera
Portraitist Emmet Gowin's most enduring subject is his wife
December 2007 |
By David Zax
In Living Color
An obscure photographic process unveiled 100 years ago opens a fresh window on the past
September 2007 |
By Robert M. Poole
"It Felt Like a Real Discovery"
Six decades after the death of an unheralded New York City municipal photographer, a researcher stumbles upon his forgotten negatives
September 2007 |
By Carolyn Kleiner Butler
Remembering Jack Kerouac
A friend of the author of "On the Road," published 50 years ago this month, tells why the novel still matters
September 2007 |
By Joyce Johnson
The Real Frida Kahlo
A new exhibition offers insights into the Mexican painter's private life
September 01, 2007 |
By Julia Kaganskiy
Hemingway's Cuba, Cuba's Hemingway
His last personal secretary returns to Havana and discovers that the novelist's mythic presence looms larger than ever
August 2007 |
By Valerie Hemingway
Hopper
Mystery. Longing. A whole new way of seeing. A stunning retrospective reminds us why the enigmatic American artist retains his power
July 2007 |
By Avis Berman
The Flight Stuff
Amelia Earhart brought her own special style—even to her outerwear
July 2007 |
By Owen Edwards
A Brief History of the Honus Wagner Baseball Card
From cigarette pack insert to multi-million-dollar treasure
May 01, 2007 |
By David Zax
The Deciding Moment
A newly published scrapbook of Henri Cartier-Bresson's early photographs is changing some notions about how he worked
April 2007 |
By Sarah Boxer
Houdini Revealed
Some 80 years after his death, Harry Houdini is back in the public spotlight. This photo essay sheds light on the escape artist's life
April 01, 2007 |
By Whitney Dangerfield
Comic Phyllis Diller's Cabinet Keeps the Jokes Coming
The stand up comic's archive holds a lifetime of proven punch lines
March 2007 |
By Owen Edwards
