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Married, With Camera

Portraitist Emmet Gowin's most enduring subject is his wife
December 2007 | By David Zax

Young sat on a board that he

Art and Soul

Bluesman Robert Young wasn't just fooling around
October 2007 | By Owen Edwards

Laura Gilpin (1891-1979). "Woman in black and white striped skirt seated in chair."

In Living Color

An obscure photographic process unveiled 100 years ago opens a fresh window on the past
September 2007 | By Robert M. Poole

The ferry President Roosevelt arriving in Lower Manhattan, 1924: The photo "shows him thinking like an artist."

"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

Kerouac (with the author in Greenwich Village in 1957) was as unprepared as anyone else for his novel

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

Frida Kahlo: Public Image, Private Life

The Real Frida Kahlo

A new exhibition offers insights into the Mexican painter's private life
September 01, 2007 | By Julia Kaganskiy

For Hemingway, Cuba was a place to relax (the waters off Cojimar, where he docked his fishing boat, the Pilar) and a place to write.

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

"The painter," Edward Hopper often observed, "paints to reveal himself through what he sees in his subject." Chop Suey dates from 1929.

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

Earhart was equally at home in the air and on the pages of fashion magazines.Earhart was equally at home in the air and on the pages of fashion magazines.

The Flight Stuff

Amelia Earhart brought her own special style—even to her outerwear
July 2007 | By Owen Edwards

This Honus Wagner baseball card sold for $2.35 million in March.

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

Born Ehrich Weiss in Budapest Hungary in 1874, the future escape artist soon immigrated to the United States with his family. A showman with great charisma, Weiss changed his name to Houdini in homage to Jean-Eugene Robert-Houdin, the founder of modern magic, and took off for the vaudeville stage. Here, the struggling performer met Wilhelmina Beatrice Rahner, then a member of the song-and-dance act The Floral Sisters. (Corbis)

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

E.B. Whites childrens classic Charlotte

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

A group of men dressed as the communist militia from 1980s walk in Warsaw during the 24th anniversary of martial law, in 2005.

Poland's War

Remembering martial law 25 years later
December 01, 2006 | By Chai Woodham

"Anaemic little spinner in North Pownal Cotton Mill" is what Hine wrote.

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

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire

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

Andre Wyeth

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


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