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Aaron Douglas, Aspiration, 1936, oil on canvas.

What’s Up

Searching for new ways of seeing, Homer settled in Cullercoats, England, where he created heroic views of his neighbors (Four Fishwives, 1881) in watercolor.

Hidden Depths

Winslow Homer took watercolors to new levels. A Chicago exhibition charts the elusive New Englander’s mastery

Winslow Homer

Beneath the Surface

A high-tech investigation helps explain Winslow Homer’s staying power

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On the Job: Choreographer

Choreographer Lori Belilove pays homage to Isadora Duncan, the mother of contemporary dance

Lunt Harbor, looking toward the mountains of Acadia National Park

The Life and Times of a Maine Island

An excerpt from a history of Frenchboro, Long Island, one of Maine’s last remaining year-round island communities

View of the National Mall

Washington, D.C.

A Brief History of Pierre L’Enfant and Washington, D.C.

How one Frenchman’s vision became our capital city

A Parisian Ball - dancing at the Marbille, Paris. Drawn by Winslow Homer.

“No More Long Faces”

Did Winslow Homer have a broken heart?

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May Anniversaries

Momentous or Merely Memorable

Brontosaurus skeleton sketch

Where Dinosaurs Roamed

Footprints at one of the nation’s oldest—and most fought over—fossil beds offer new clues to how the behemoths lived

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Goodbye, Columbus

A new survey upends the conventional wisdom about who counts in American history

The Black Square – Hommage to Malevich near the Hamburger Kunsthalle

Dark Doubling

Muskrat lunch was also available in the school cafeteria.

Muskrat Love

An annual festival on Maryland’s Eastern Shore celebrates an unlikely mascot

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Celluloid Cynicism

The Smithsonian American Art Museum’s film noir series commenced last Wednesday with Billy Wilder’ s pitch-perfect 1950 Hollywood satire, Sunset Boulevard

The Hoover Dam in 1933

Excessive Withholding

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A Dream to Remember

At Hirshhorn exhibit, “the cinematic is in the way we perceive the world, in the way we speak, in the way we dream.”

Mapping a Different View

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Snapshot: Hong Kong, China

A forward-thinking city with ancient traditions

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