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Hidden Depths
Winslow Homer took watercolors to new levels. A Chicago exhibition charts the elusive New Englander's mastery
May 2008 |
By Robert M. Poole
A Brief History of Pierre L’Enfant and Washington, D.C.
How one Frenchman’s vision became our capital city
May 01, 2008 |
By Kenneth R. Fletcher
Spirals of History
Hand-carved elephant tusks tell the story of life in the Congolese colonies of the late 1800s
April 2008 |
By Owen Edwards
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
Larger than Life
Whether denouncing France's art establishment or challenging Napoleon III, Gustave Courbet never held back
April 2008 |
By Avis Berman
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
Big News
In matters of sheer magnitude, Robert Howlett got the picture
January 2008 |
By Victoria Olsen
Letters from Vincent
Never-before-exhibited correspondence from van Gogh to a protégé displays a thoughtful exacting side of the artist
January 2008 |
By Arthur Lubow
The Lost Fort of Columbus
On his voyage to the Americas in 1492, the explorer built a small fort somewhere in the Caribbean
January 2008 |
By Frances Maclean
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
Sky King
Pan Am founder Juan Trippe turned Americans into frequent fliers
November 2007 |
By Owen Edwards
Abandoned Ship: the Mary Celeste
What really happened aboard the Mary Celeste? More than a century after her crew went missing, a scenario is emerging
November 2007 |
By Jess Blumberg
A Brief History of the Salem Witch Trials
One town's strange journey from paranoia to pardon
October 24, 2007 |
By Jess Blumberg
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
