Still Delightful
A sumptuous show documents how the Impressionists breathed new life into the staid tradition of still life painting
![Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Cavendish, Vermont 1981
What did the Russian author like about the United States? "[He] told me the air was free in America," Benson recalls.](https://th-thumbnailer.cdn-si-edu.com/oHHY75tg3zcfCiouSn8rQutm4YU=/450x300/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/charmer_solzhenitsyn.jpg)
Cheeky Charmer
For half a century, photographer Harry Benson has been talking his way to the top of his game
Just Folk
From samplers to sugar bowls, weathervanes to whistles, an engaging exhibition heralds the opening of the American Folk Art Museum’s new home in Manhattan
Fresh Eyes
It turns out the America portrayed by printmakers Currier and Ives was not all sleigh rides in the snow
Strange Bedfellows
A new exhibition tracks the turbulent nine weeks that artists Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin lived and painted together in the South of France
Magnificent Obsession
Artist Alberto Giacometti’s singular vision is celebrated in a special centennial exhibition at New York City’s Museum of Modern Art
Turning Point
New Yorkers didn’t much care for the twin towers until a nimble Frenchman named Philippe Petit danced across a wire between them
Around the Mall & Beyond
Best Seats in the House
Mister Faulkner Goes to Stockholm
In six years, William Faulkner went from salaried Hollywood script doctor to winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. How had this miracle occurred?
Points of View
Artist Paul Signac steps out of the shadow of his celebrated colleague, pointillist Georges Seurat, to star in a new exhibition at the Met
Don Foster Has a Way With Words
Uncovered a Shakespeare elegy, confirmed Ted Kaczynski wrote the Unabomb Manifesto and identified Eric Rudolph as a suspect in the 1996 bombing
A Lens on the Land
Twelve noted photographers respond in images to areas designated by the Nature Conservancy as Last Great Places
Virtue and Beauty
The Renaissance Image of the Ideal Woman
The Divine Sarah
Bewitching her admirers around the world, Sarah Bernhardt dazzled audiences as she pioneered the cult of celebrity
The Painter and the President
Gilbert Stuart and the Creation of an Icon
Dueling Banners
Proverbs in the asafo flags of Ghana
Finding the Eye of the Whirlpool
Adventure photographer Peter McBride tells what it was like to shoot whirlpools while hanging from a ship’s radio antenna.
The Ascent of Glass
Advances in production, energy efficiency and methods of construction have enabled glass to rise to new heights and assume unexpected forms
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