Welcome to the Hechinger Collection, where hammers are brittle, saws never get old and wrenches mimic baby birds
Speeding through the Great Books on the road to higher learning
For years they were shuttled from one hiding place to another to escape the Japanese and then the Communists - now they're coming here
It's harder than you think, but even more rewarding, as the Stocker family foundation shows in Lorain, Ohio, and points West
Within a generation, the rural Mississippi tribe has created thousands of jobs and transformed itself into an economic dynamo
Everything was open to them in postwar Paris, as a new exhibit in New York proves
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After a spectacular collection was given to a Paris museum, the story emerged of how a princess kept the flame of love burning
What's in a name? Just ask King Fisher, Robin Banks and Minnie Vann
Protecting museum treasures - paintings by the masters, the delicate wings of a tropical beetle - requires the strictest climate control, right?
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At his Tennessee museum, John Rice Irwin's love for his mountain upbringing puts people in touch with a fast-disappearing way of life
In modern Western square dancing, you still see lots of petticoats and legs, but there are new calls, new steps and new rules
Bought on a whim for the price of a painting, J. Alden Weir's farm, now a National Historic Site, became a place to redefine American art
From 1895 to 1912 in her Pocatello studio, Benedicte Wrensted produced telling portraits of Northern Shoshone and Bannock Indians
The religious life was a lot more rigid back in Detroit in the 1940s
Long ago, they found a talent or a cause, a way of life or a way of work, then stuck with it—and said to hell with what other people think
Alan Fern, director of the National Portrait Gallery, offers his insights on the art of reading a portrait
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