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35 Who Made a Difference: Frank Gehry

The architect’s daring, outside-the-box buildings have revitalized urban spaces

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35 Who Made a Difference: Maya Lin

The architect melds surface simplicity and underlying intellectual complexity into works of enduring power

A Night at the Opera

Weegee’s wartime snapshot was widely seen as social criticism, but it was, in fact, a farce

Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

Entangling Alliances

From Alaska to France, kindred spirits find common ground

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Matisse and His Models

The author of a new biography of the artist argues that the women he painted were full partners in the creative enterprise

A sportive thrill c. 1957.

Fashion Faux Paw

Richard Avedon’s photograph of a beauty and the beasts is marred, he believed, by one failing

The Outwin Boochever contest: First of its kind in the U.S.

New Faces

Artists, emerging and renowned alike, will vie to display their works in the National Portrait Gallery when it reopens next July

United States Attorney Carmen Ortiz (C) along with Special Agent-in-Charge of the FBI's Boston Field Office Richard Des Lauriers (R) announce investigative developments in the 1990 art heist at the Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum and appeal to the public for information regarding the return of several pieces during a news conference at the FBI offices in Boston, Massachusetts

Ripped from the Walls (and the Headlines)

Fifteen years after the greatest art theft in modern history the mystery may be unraveling

"I really needed a haircut, so i stepped into Benny White's Arco Barber Shop. I sat down in that old, red chair and received one of the most attentive and quality haircuts of my life. Afterward I thanked White and asked him if he wouldn't mind me taking his portrait."

Through Our Readers’ Eyes

SMITHSONIAN’s second annual photo contest generates more than 30,000 entries

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The Power and the Glory

She bought the electric drill to get a tidier household. Then she found out about the secret sisterhood

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Making Tracks

On the trail of art thieves and elusive elephants

Life imitates Frederic Remington (models Josh and Rob Culbertson) at the annual invitation-only event known as the Artist Ride.

Cowboys and Artists

Each summer models decked out in period dress give artists a picture of life in the Wild West

The original Smokey Bear, playing in his pool at the National Zoo, sometime during the 1950s.

A Bear-Handed Grab

How a stranded cub became the living symbol for one of America’s best-known advertising campaigns

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Lucky Man

A stroke of astonishing good fortune that even the author’s skeptical father might embrace

Jon Broderick

Rhyme or Cut Bait

When these fisher poets gather, nobody brags about the verse that got away

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Animal Magnetism

Gregory Colbert’s haunting photographs, exhibited publicly for the first time in the US, hint at an extraordinary bond between us and our fellow creatures

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Toulouse-Lautrec

The fin de sià¨cle artist who captured Paris’ cabarets and dance halls is drawing crowds to a new exhibition at Washington, D.C.’s National Gallery of Art

Mann now uses an old view camera.

Model Family

Sally Mann’s unflinching photographs of her children have provoked controversy, but one of her now-grown daughters wonders what all the fuss was about

Portrait of Salvador Dalí, Paris

Catalonia

The Surreal World of Salvador Dalí

Genius or madman? A new exhibition may help you decide

Kertész (in his 80s, c. 1975) made his name in Paris (Under the Eiffel Tower, 1929).

Hungarian Rhapsody

In a 70-year career that began in Budapest, André Kertész pioneered modern photography, as a new exhibition makes clear

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