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Arts & Culture / Art & Artists

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Bound and Determined

Reflecting on resistance

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Substantial Silhouettes

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Spotlight: Olafur Eliasson

The Trevi Fountain’s waters turn red.

He Strikes Again

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Winter (Not So) Wonderland

Helen Frankenthaler’s Mountains and Sea, 1952

Lyrical Methodology

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Trash to Treasure

For Your Viewing Enjoyment

"Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear"
Vincent van Gogh
1889

Van Gogh in Auvers

The artist’s tumultuous last days

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One Love: Discovering Rastafari!

The curator of a groundbreaking exhibit at the National Museum of Natural History discusses Rastafarian culture

Explorer 1 satellite

Explorer I Satellite

In 1958, Explorer 1 launched America’s response to the USSR’s Sputnik

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Norman Foster

Architect norman foster designed the glass canopy at the Smithsonian’s Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture. He spoke with Jess Blumberg.

Ernie LaPointe and his family are the closest living relatives of Sitting Bull.

Making History

Giving Back

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Letters

Readers Respond to the November Issue

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What’s Up

Curator Jake Homiak (right) and adviser Ras Maurice Clarke make the sign of the trinity, a Rastafarian symbol of reverence.

Rasta Revealed

A reclamation of African identity evolved into a worldwide cultural, religious and political movement

Van Gogh painted this portrait of himself, dressed as a bourgeois, in Paris, where he stayed with his brother Theo and continued to hone his painting skills. Van Gogh's brief flirtation with the separate, dappled brushstrokes of pointillism is evident in this early effort, which is one of his best paintings from 1887. (Self-Portrait: Three Quarters to the Right)

Letters from Vincent

Never-before-exhibited correspondence from van Gogh to a protégé displays a thoughtful exacting side of the artist

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