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Return of a Giant

A fully restored Vulcan—Birmingham, Alabama’s 100-year-old statue— resumes it’s rightful place in town

Bubley (c. 1960) made wartime photos in Washington, D.C. (1943) on her own.

Private Eye

Noted for her sensitive photojournalism in postwar magazines, Esther Bubley is back in vogue

The "Turkish Room" was created from pieces of the interior of a 19th-century Damascus mansion.

Doris Duke’s Islamic Art Retreat

The Honolulu hideaway built by “the richest girl in the world” is now a museum showcasing her unique collection of Islamic art

The stars aligned: Cassius Clay (not yet Muhammad Ali) and the Beatles (in Miami Beach in 1964) would soon ride a tsunami of fame.

Winner by a Decision

When Sonny Liston decided not to meet the Beatles 40 years ago, photographer Harry Benson pulled a switcheroo

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The Mad Potter of Biloxi

George E. Ohr’s wild, wonderful pots gathered dust in a garage for half a century. Now architect Frank Gehry is designing a museum dedicated to the artist

Vendors hawking books and magazines say they now openly offer once-banned literature, including religious texts and posters and political tracts.

Baghdad Beyond the Headlines

From gleeful schoolkids to a literary scholar who loves Humphrey Bogart, a photographer captures a reawakening but still wary city

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Romare Bearden: Man of Many Parts

A new exhibition showcases Bearden’s innovative collages and stakes a claim for him in the pantheon of 20th-century American artists

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Profile in Courage

Fifteen years later, a photograph of an anonymous protester facing down a row of tanks in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square still inspires astonishment

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Shooting Stars

Photographer Jack Pashkovsky disarmed Hollywood’s royalty with his ardor and persistence

Photo of James Rosenquist

Big!

Pop artist James Rosenquist returns to the limelight with a dazzling retrospective of his larger-than-life works

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Too Hot to Handle

Taken at the start of his multifaceted career, Gordon Parks’ photograph of a Washington, D.C. worker was so inflammatory it was buried for decades

Chagall's Midsummer Night's Dream.

The Elusive Marc Chagall

With his wild and whimsical imagery, the Russian-born artist bucked the trends of 20th-century art

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Magic Moments

A new book and a Paris arts center pay homage to photography’s elusive 95-year-old grand master

"Olmec butterfly" rug by Isaac Vasquez of Oaxaca

Dream Weavers

In the Mexican village of Teotitlán, gifted artisans create a future from bright hand-loomed rugs

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Paper Chase

Looking up his high school Permanent Record Card leaves our author curiously grateful for his failings

Venus de Milo

Base Deception

In 1821, the French carved a classical Greek sculpture. In the Venus de Milo, they thought they finally had one. Never mind that it wasn’t really classical

Lord Tennyson

Eminent Victorians

Julia Margaret Cameron’s evocative photographs of Lord Tennyson and other 19th-century British notables pioneered the art of portraiture

The warts and all approach of obituarists such as Andrew McKie of the Telegraph (left) and the Denver Post's Claire Martin (right) gives an "accurate portrait of those who have embellished and undermined our society," says obits scholar Nigel Starck (center).

Dead Lines

Today’s obituary writers sum up lives famous and not with pans as well as paeans

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Picture This

Five Categories, 50 Finalists, Six Winners

After hearing about the attacks, Jenna Piccirillo took her son Vaughan and headed to the rooftop of her Brooklyn home.

September 11 From a Brooklyn Rooftop

Photographer Alex Webb captured a moment that showed, he says, the “continuity of life in the face of disaster”

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