Protecting museum treasures - paintings by the masters, the delicate wings of a tropical beetle - requires the strictest climate control, right?
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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
Everything was open to them in postwar Paris, as a new exhibit in New York proves
For years they were shuttled from one hiding place to another to escape the Japanese and then the Communists - now they're coming here
From 1895 to 1912 in her Pocatello studio, Benedicte Wrensted produced telling portraits of Northern Shoshone and Bannock Indians
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
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
The expatriate American poet returned home in ignominy, and the postwar world watched as a literary giant was charged with treason
The Japanese master has devoted his life to reviving a long-lost technique of fabric design and to creating handcrafted kimonos of lasting beauty
It's a must-see show at the National Gallery of Art; not since 1696 have so many of his paintings been brought together in one place
At the University of Mississippi, the first annual International Conference on Elvis Presley brought together fans and scholars
He would chronicle it all the Civil War, the schoolyard games, the raging coast of Maine yet the man remained a mystery to the end
Photographer O. Winston Link documented the final days of steam engines on the Norfolk and Western Railway, the last main line to use them
From their modest Manhattan digs, Constance Lowenthal and her staff do their best to foil the criminals who swipe treasures for a living
By turning the ordinary flashlight, spoon or clothespin into a colossal monument, this artist chisels away at society's solemnity
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A short walk from the uphill end of the Fisherman's Wharf trolley line is a former working-class neighborhood that is the city's new home for the arts
In search of the transcendent, the Dutch painter created grids of red, blue and yellow that are very much with us
Gag writers and cartoonists are good pen pals as long as they can get a laugh in seven seconds (tick, tick . . .)
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