Articles by Alicia Ault

About Alicia Ault
Alicia Ault

Alicia Ault is a Washington, DC-based journalist whose work has appeared in publications including the New York Times, the Washington Post and Wired. When not chasing down a story from our nation's capital, she takes in the food, music and culture of southwest Louisiana from the peaceful perch of her part-time New Orleans home.

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Women Who Shaped History

These Haunting Red Dresses Memorialize Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women

Four Craft Artists Use Their Medium to Tell the Story of Our Times

To Help Corals Fight Back, Scientists Are Breeding Populations Separated by Hundreds of Miles

How Japanese Artists Responded to the Transformation of Their Nation

These Images From 1968 Capture an America in Violent Flux

A Window into the World of Diane Arbus

Future of Art

Two Artists in Search of Missing History

The Navajo Nation Treaty of 1868 Lives On at the American Indian Museum

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