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The nomads who traversed Utah's rough terrain scratched, pecked and painted thousands of images onto cliff walls, creating rock art known today as the Barrier Canyon style. The earliest painting at Black Dragon Canyon (above) is thought to be more than 8,000 years old.

Traces of a Lost People

Who roamed the Colorado Plateau thousands of years ago? And what do their stunning paintings signify?

March 2005

Modigliani: Misunderstood

A new exhibition positions the bohemian artist’s work above even his operatic life story

March 2005

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

March 2005

Costume designer Charmaine Simmons conceived Jerry's foppish garb to be both "uncomfortable" and "unwearable."

The Shirt Off His Back

Jerry Seinfeld’s silly, frilly prop takes its place in television history

March 2005

Among items the archaeologists unearthed were a toothbrush (above) and a gaming die . The artifacts now repose in 630 boxes.

Where East Met (Wild) West

Excavations in a legendary gold rush town uncover the unsung labors of Chinese immigrants on the frontier

March 2005

Second Thoughts

Things are not always what they seem

March 2005

The prime minister oversaw the war from a London bunker (the Cabinet War Rooms, above, adjacent to the new Churchill Museum) and from the field. In 1909, at age 35, he had already expressed an ardent desire to "have some practice in the handling of large forces."

Contemplating Churchill

On the 40th anniversary of the wartime leader’s death, historians are reassessing the complex figure who carried Britain through its darkest hour

March 2005

Kicking off the Festival, NASA Deputy Administrator, the Honorable Shana Dale, shares lunch with the Prince of Bhutan, HRH Prince Jigyel Ugyen Wangchuck, and the acting head of the Smithsonian Institution, Cristian Samper.

Child of Wonder

Cristián Samper’s lifelong love of flora and fauna inspires creative new displays of the world’s largest collection

March 2005

Future Shocks

Modern science, ancient catastrophes and the endless quest to predict earthquakes

March 2005

A Puzzle In the Pribilofs

On the remote Alaskan archipelago, scientists and Aleuts are trying to find the causes of a worrisome decline in fur seals

March 2005

Christo Does Central Park

After a quarter century’s effort, the wrap artist and his wife, Jeanne-Claude, blaze a saffron trail in New York City

February 2005

One Per Customer

February 2005

Last Call

Hang-ups are an occupational hazard

February 2005

Homesteader Jack Whinery and his family lived in a "soddy"a dugout home with log walls and sod roof. Electricity came to Pie Town in the 1940s; telephones in the '60s.

Savoring Pie Town

Sixty-five years after Russell Lee photographed New Mexico homesteaders coping with the Depression, a Lee admirer visits the town for a fresh slice of life

February 2005

Each evening in northern Uganda, children by the thousands leave their huts to trek to safe havens to avoid fanatical rebels.

Uganda: The Horror

In Uganda, tens of thousands of children have been abducted, 1.6 million people herded into camps and thousands of people killed

February 2005

Out of the Shadows

African-American architect Julian Abele is finally getting recognition for his contributions to some of 20th-century America’s most prestigious buildings

February 2005