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Venus de Milo

Base Deception

In 1821, the French carved a classical Greek sculpture. In the Venus de Milo, they thought they finally had one. Never mind that it wasn’t really classical

Lord Tennyson

Eminent Victorians

Julia Margaret Cameron’s evocative photographs of Lord Tennyson and other 19th-century British notables pioneered the art of portraiture

The warts and all approach of obituarists such as Andrew McKie of the Telegraph (left) and the Denver Post's Claire Martin (right) gives an "accurate portrait of those who have embellished and undermined our society," says obits scholar Nigel Starck (center).

Dead Lines

Today’s obituary writers sum up lives famous and not with pans as well as paeans

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Picture This

Five Categories, 50 Finalists, Six Winners

After hearing about the attacks, Jenna Piccirillo took her son Vaughan and headed to the rooftop of her Brooklyn home.

September 11 From a Brooklyn Rooftop

Photographer Alex Webb captured a moment that showed, he says, the “continuity of life in the face of disaster”

Newport, 1964: Waterman says he photographed Mississippi John Hurt (1893-1966), left, and Skip James (1902-1969) for posterity.

Focus on the Blues

Richard Waterman’s never-before-published photographs caught the roots music legends at their down-home best

Robert Irwin collaborated with Dia director Michael Govan (pictured), and the architectural firm, OpenOffice, on the renovation of the 1929 factory that houses the new museum.

Beacon of Light

Groundbreaking art shines at the extraordinary new Dia: Beacon museum on New York’s Hudson River

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Dream Assignment

Photographer Bob Adelman’s picture of Martin Luther King, Jr., taken 40 years ago, captures one of the greatest speeches in American history

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Mesopotamian Masterpieces

Exquisite art and artifacts from the world’s earliest civilization are dazzling visitors to New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art

"Dean of Weird Menace Art" John Newton Howitt's "River of Pain", done in 1934 for Terror Tales, is the only one of his pulp paintings known to survive. The rest were destroyed.

Guys and Molls

Bold, garish and steamy cover images from popular pulp-fiction magazines of the 1930s and ‘40s have made their way from newsstands to museum walls

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Shoot, Don’t Call

Announcing our first-ever photo contest

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Nothing but the Struth

A new exhibition showcases the German photographer’s eye for art

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Into the Breach

David Douglas Duncan’s Life photographs captured the courage and anguish of marines in Korea, bringing home the gravity of war

Through the elliptical opening of its East Portal visitors will see the sky in a new way.

James Turrell’s Light Fantastic

The innovative artist has devoted his life to transforming

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Manhattan Bound

A new book of photographs by octogenarian Helen Levitt charts her amused view of an ever-evolving New York

The Dance Class (La Classe de Danse), 1873–1876, oil on canvas, by Edgar Degas

Degas and His Dancers

A major exhibition and a new ballet bring the renowned artist’s obsession with dance center stage

"People often use the word tedious to describe my work," says Breitman, "but I find it meditative." Maple was based on family photographs.

Fabricating Art

Laura Breitman fashions photo-realist collages out of whole cloth

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The Big Picture

Our photographic collections showcase the world from the seafloor to the stars above

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Machine Dreams

A new exhibition reconsiders the industrial photographs of Margaret Bourke-White’s early, “rapturous” period

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Mischief Maker

A new exhibit showcases the neglected, playful sculptures of artist Joan Miró

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