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Homepage Artistry

Xu Bing's Book from the Sky(1987-1991), hand printed books, ceiling and wall scrolls printed from wood letterpress type using false Chinese characters, dimensions variable, installation view at "Crossings," National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (1998).

China’s Artistic Diaspora

For sixty years, upheavals in Chinese politics have not only remade the country’s economy–they have remade Chinese art

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

“No More Long Faces”

Did Winslow Homer have a broken heart?

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

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

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On the Job: Choreographer

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

Winslow Homer

Beneath the Surface

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

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

Aaron Douglas, Aspiration, 1936, oil on canvas.

What’s Up

G. Wayne Clough

Turning a Page

Smithsonian regents tap engineer, educator G. Wayne Clough as the Institution’s next Secretary

Irving Berlin's piano

Ivory Merchant

Composer Irving Berlin wrote scores of hits on his custom-built instrument

Lennie Foy

Jukebox

Hot Horns

A soup tureen by Meissonnier

Curves Ahead

At the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Rococo experiences a revival

Bhutan meets Texas (El Paso's campus) at the Folklife Festival

From the Castle

GNP or GNH?

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Model Arrangement

In Milton Greene, Marilyn Monroe found a friend as well as a photographer who captured the range of her vibrant personality

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Letters

Readers Respond to the March Issue

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The Fog Lifts

As it always does, given enough time

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Interview with G. Wayne Clough

Smithsonian Institution’s 12th Secretary discusses his new role, his distinguished career in education and his favorite artifact

The Black Square – Hommage to Malevich near the Hamburger Kunsthalle

Dark Doubling

Lions and Tigers and Bears

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