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Arts & Culture / Art & Artists

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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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Fields of Color

Can’t Get Enough

Charlotte Schulz, The maximum of all possible hate is realized in the eternal moment, and we cleave to our screens as it unfolds in that disquieting way (an incompossible) (detail), 2005.

Drawing Rooms

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Serious Firepower

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Prototype Online: Inventive Voices

Sharon Rogone, a neonatal nurse-turned-inventor, talks about her first invention

Chocolate truffles

A Brief History of Chocolate

Uncover the bittersweet story of this ancient treat and watch a video

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What’s Up

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Making History

Mystery Illuminated

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John Alexander

A retrospective of artist John Alexander’s work debuted at the American Art Museum in December and travels next to Houston’s Museum of Fine Arts

Evel Knievel

Daredevil

Evel Knievel took risky behavior (and showboating) to new heights

Rogone (in a San Bernadino hospital) says "my babies' motivated the inventions.

A Neonatal Niche

Medical companies ignored the needs of premature infants, inspiring a nurse to become an entrepreneur

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From the Castle

Tapestries

"Renegades" says a former Indiana motorcycle-shop owner of bikers he knew, such as Sparky (Charles Ritter, left) and CowBoy (irvin Dunsdon), in 1965

Two for the Rogues

Sparky and CowBoy were fast friends, but Danny Lyon was able to keep up with them

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