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Lunt Harbor, looking toward the mountains of Acadia National Park

The Life and Times of a Maine Island

An excerpt from a history of Frenchboro, Long Island, one of Maine’s last remaining year-round island communities

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On the Job: Choreographer

Choreographer Lori Belilove pays homage to Isadora Duncan, the mother of contemporary dance

Winslow Homer

Beneath the Surface

A high-tech investigation helps explain Winslow Homer’s staying power

Searching for new ways of seeing, Homer settled in Cullercoats, England, where he created heroic views of his neighbors (Four Fishwives, 1881) in watercolor.

Hidden Depths

Winslow Homer took watercolors to new levels. A Chicago exhibition charts the elusive New Englander’s mastery

Aaron Douglas, Aspiration, 1936, oil on canvas.

What’s Up

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

Mapping a Different View

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Cringe Factor

Free for All

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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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