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Images of the Spirit: The Evocative Vision of Graciela Iturbide

The Mexican photographer blends history, lyricism and portraiture to record cultures in transition

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Growing Pains

Celebrity Caricature

At the National Portrait Gallery, American Icons Revealed

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Ursula von Rydingsvard Sculpts Metaphors in Wood

The contemporary artist combines primordial forms and highly expressive content to produce haunting and monumental works of uncommon power

Joseph and Olga Hirshhorn attend the opening of the Hirshhorn on October 4, 1974.

Olga Hirshhorn and The Art of Living

A look into the life of the museum’s leading lady

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Posters

At the National Museum of American Art

Richard Diebenkorn in his studio in 1986

A Window on a World of Shape and Color

Richard Diebenkorn always sidestepped the hype; now, his art is saying it all

This Holocaust remembrance sculpture stands outside the Legion of Honor in San Francisco.

Art That Turns Life Inside Out

Casting friends and family in plaster, George Segal creates “environments” that bring inner reality to the surface

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Time Out—Sports in Art

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The House that Art Built

Money is no object for the Getty Trust, as it builds its collections and does good works around the globe. Now it has a new home overlooking Los Angeles

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The Quiet Man of American Modernism

From the outside, Arthur Dove’s life appeared out of kilter, but his inner vision shone through

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The Rebirth of Shakespeare’s Globe

It took an American actor to champion the rebuilding of a British cultural symbol

South Koreans stand by the cauldron of the 1988 Summer Olympics

A Video Visionary

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