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What’s Up

The Tao of Tea, Beyond Pottery and Something in the Air

Of various portraits identified with Shakespeare, only the Chandos portrait (above) is believed painted from life

To Be or Not to Be Shakespeare

While skeptics continue to question the authorship of his plays, a new exhibition raises doubts about the authenticity of his portraits

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Interview with Doug Stewart, Author of “To Be or Not to be Shakespeare”

Stewart tells how research shaped his opinion of Shakespeare and his work

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Snap Judgments

The winners (and some runners-up) of SMITHSONIAN’s annual photo contest take a bow

William Wegman photographed by Roy Adkins

Artist William Wegman

Wegman speaks about photographing his Weimaraners, including Man Ray and Fay Ray

Hurricane Katrina

Crescent City Twilight

A photographer takes a pinhole view of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, which struck a year ago this month

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Morning In America

Space shuttle-watchers took their place in the sun, not yet awakened to the true risks of exploring the heavens.

David Hockney exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in London

David Hockney and Friends

Though the artist doesn’t think of himself as a painter of portraits, a new exhibition makes the case that they are key to his work

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Interview with Adam Goodheart, Author of “Back to the Future”

The author talks about what makes the newly renovated Patent Office Building special

The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations' Millennium General Assembly was found in a garage after the 1964 death of its self-taught creator, Washington, D.C. janitor James Hampton.

Grand Reopening: Speaking of Art

Two museums return home and invite visitors to engage in “conversations”

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Let There Be Light

From dark and cavernous to room for everybody

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Interview on the Legacy of Andrew Wyeth

Henry Adams, author of “Wyeth’s World,” speaks with the artist about his early work, influences and technique

The Libeskind-designed Jewish Museum Berlin

Jewish Museum Berlin

Architect Daniel Libeskind’s zinc lightning bolt of a building is one of the most revolutionary structures built since the war in Germany or anywhere

Coal Miner’s Daughter

“I’m 15. I’m getting married. My mother doesn’t want me to get married.” But that’s just the beginning of the story

Joe Booth -- livestock salesman in 1984 and lumberyard worker in 2005.

Time and Again

In 1984, Peter Feldstein set out to photograph everyone in Oxford, Iowa. Two decades later, he’s doing it again, creating a portrait of heartland America

Artist Andrew Wyeth at the age of 66

Wyeth’s World

In the wake of his death, controversy still surrounds painter Andrew Wyeth’s stature as a major American artist

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Forging its Own Future

Dedicated metalsmiths help a Memphis museum revive a lost American art form

In 1919 Marcel Duchamp penciled a mustache and goatee on a print of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa and inscribed the work "L.H.O.O.Q." Spelled out in French these letters form a risqué pun: Elle a chaud au cul, or "She has hot pants." Intentionally disrespectful, Duchamp's defacement was meant to express the Dadaists' rejection of both artistic and cultural authority.

Switzerland

A Brief History of Dada

The irreverent, rowdy revolution set the trajectory of 20th-century art

James McNeill Whistler's palette, c. 1888-90.

Refined Palette

Scholars say this 19th-century artifact could have belonged to the celebrated American painter

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My Cold War Hang-Up

How I learned to stop worrying and make peace with my nuclear phone

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