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The Tragedy of Lucretia, Sandro Botticelli, ca. 1500-1501

Botticelli Comes Ashore

With the purchase of Botticelli’s Death of Lucretia, Isabella Stewart Gardner took American collecting in a new direction

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A Sculpture’s Crash Landing at the Royal Academy

Isidre Nonell, La Paloma, 1904

Learning More About Spanish Modernism

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Kenneth R. Fletcher on “The Beach”

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More With Richard Misrach

The Photographer explains how a series of beach pictures were inspired by the events of September 11

Richard Misrach, Untitled 1132-04, 2004-Misrach says he began to notice how “people group up and leave a sort of comfortable space around them—something that maybe would only be revealed when you stand back to see it.”

Richard Misrach’s Ominous Beach Photographs

A new exhibition of oversized photographs by Richard Misrach invites viewers to have fun in the sun. Or does it?

Follow the "Guests of the Hills" opening August 23 at the Freer Gallery.

What’s Up

Smithsonian exhibitions highlight the secrets of soil, lavish interiors and Chinese landscape paintings

"Minnesota's" vasectomy was reversed due to his species becoming nearly extinct.

Making History

Role Reversal

Avant-garde performance artist and pop icon Laurie Anderson.

Laurie Anderson

The celebrated performance artist discusses Andy Warhol, NASA and her work at McDonald’s

Channing (as Lorelei Lee, 1974) recalls taking her first bow in a dress encrusted with 40 pounds of bling: “I fell over forward and almost broke my teeth.”

All That Glitters

Carol Channing can’t forget the night her gown got ransomed

Biographer Wade Davis says Schultes approached photography with the "same precision as he did botany."

Photo Find

With a rolleiflex camera, a pioneering botanist documented his fieldwork—and created art

Smithson: Using “diffusion” as an analogy for education?

From the Castle

Keeping Up

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Letters

Readers Respond to the June Issue

Model for Hotel 2007

From Antony Gormley, Plinth Power

Flag-Waving Artists

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Our 10th Annual Photo Contest Ends Today at 2 PM EST!

Enter your best shots by November 30th at 2 PM EST, and compete to win our grand prize!

Six days after Betka Tudu's birth, female relatives and neighbors in the West Bengal village of Purulia gathered to bless him and "to protect him from harm's way," says Dey. Born into the Santhal tribe, Betka "unknowingly drew his distant kin closer than ever."

Welcome to Your World

This year’s photo contest winners reflect decidedly international points of view

A frybread meal at a Navajo powwow.

Frybread

This seemingly simple food is a complicated symbol in Navajo culture

The painted replica of a c. 490 B.C. archer (at the Parthenon in Athens) testifies to German archaeologist Vinzenz Brinkmann’s painstaking research into the ancient sculpture’s colors. The original statue came from the Temple of Aphaia on the Greek island of Aegina.

True Colors

Archaeologist Vinzenz Brinkmann insists his eye-popping reproductions of ancient Greek sculptures are right on target

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