Working rapidly in the West, Catlin focused on faces (as in a 1832 portrait of Pawnee warrior La-dà³o-ke-a) and filled in details later.

George Catlin’s Obsession

An exhibition at the Renwick Gallery in Washington, D.C. asks: Did his work exploit or advance the American Indian?

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Providential Happening

A fiery installation draws crowds in Providence, Rhode Island, illuminating a “daylighting” trend

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Unfazed by All the Buzz

The portrait that took the photographic world by swarm

A New York residence designed by Lin is adaptable, "like origami or a transformer toy," says the architect in her studio with Ranch the cat.

Monumental Achievement

Our 2002 profile of architect Maya Lin that marked the 20th year of the Vietnam Memorial

Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo

The Mexican artist’s myriad faces, stranger-than-fiction biography and powerful paintings come to vivid life in a new film

The eye-catching cigarette packages in Johnson's collection served as advertisements as well as containers, testaments to legions of company artists. English Craven A's, American One-Elevens and Scottish Cuba Blends are from the first half of the 20th century.

Pack Rat

First Virgil Johnson gave up smoking. Then he gave up his breathtaking collection of tobacco-nalia

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Politically Correct

Artist Peter Waddell’s scrupulously researched paintings of the U.S. Capitol bring history to life

American Will Thompson (with his take on Goya's Young Woman with a Fan) has been copying at the Louvre since 1994.

Master Class

Like generations of painters before them, artists from around the globe go to Paris to copy the masterpieces at the Louvre

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Pursuing Perfection

As the natives got ready to serve
A midget explorer named Merve;
"This meal will be brief,"
Said the cannibal chief,
"For this is at best an hors d'oeuvre."
—Ed Cunningham

The Limerick is Furtive and Mean…

From the Maigue poets to Ogden Nash, witty wordsmiths have delighted in composing the oft-risqué five-line verses

The Blue Lagoon

Eye in the Sky

A French photographer’s aerial portraits of Iceland’s Blue Lagoon, cotton bales in Ivory Coast, a tulip field in Holland document a world of fragile beauty

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Just a Snapshot?

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Training Wheels

Ida B. Wells

Against All Odds

A new play and photo exhibition call attention to Ida B. Wells and her brave fight to end lynching in America

Rich: Bemused by all the goings-on

Rich in Talent

Ed Rich gave magazines a whirl. And then some

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Stieglitz in Focus

A new exhibition at Washington’s National Gallery of Art tracks the development of seminal photographer Alfred Stieglitz

Salome with the Head of Saint John the Baptist, c. 1610-1615, Budapest

Artemisia’s Moment

After being eclipsed for centuries by her father, Orazio, Artemisia Gentileschi, the boldest female painter of her time, gets her due

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Shades of Merriment

Robert Capa, famous for his battle photographs, made friends along the way

The carcass of a cargo ship, already sheared of its forward structure, sits where it was parked on the beach at Chittagong, Bangladesh, flanked by two other scrapped vessels in various states of dismemberment.

Multiple Viewpoints

Photographer Edward Burtynsky’s politically charged industrial landscapes are carefully crafted to elicit different interpretations

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