G. Wayne Clough

Turning a Page

Smithsonian regents tap engineer, educator G. Wayne Clough as the Institution’s next Secretary

Irving Berlin's piano

Ivory Merchant

Composer Irving Berlin wrote scores of hits on his custom-built instrument

A soup tureen by Meissonnier

Curves Ahead

At the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Rococo experiences a revival

Bhutan meets Texas (El Paso's campus) at the Folklife Festival

From the Castle

GNP or GNH?

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Model Arrangement

In Milton Greene, Marilyn Monroe found a friend as well as a photographer who captured the range of her vibrant personality

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Letters

Readers Respond to the March Issue

The Black Square – Hommage to Malevich near the Hamburger Kunsthalle

Dark Doubling

Lions and Tigers and Bears

Mapping a Different View

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Cringe Factor

Free for All

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Not Your Grandma’s Needlework

Alexander Calder’s ‘Gwenfritz’ will be reinstalled in its original location on the west side of the American History Museum in October. This mock-up shows the sculpture at its new and old home in a reflecting pool, part of Calder’s intended aesthetic.

How Do We Experience Art?

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On the Job: Broadway Producer

Broadway producer Jeffrey Seller tells us what it takes to stage a hit musical

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Larger than Life

Whether denouncing France’s art establishment or challenging Napoleon III, Gustave Courbet never held back

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Letters

Readers Respond to the February Issue

Cap worn by Pullman Porter Philip Henry Logan

Buried Treasure

A Clarion call from the new African American History Museum: What’s in Your Attic?

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Spirals of History

Hand-carved elephant tusks tell the story of life in the Congolese colonies of the late 1800s

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Making History

Where Animals Roam

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From the Castle

Hello? Hello?

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