At the Museum of Fakes, what’s not real is still art
For sixty years, upheavals in Chinese politics have not only remade the country’s economy–they have remade Chinese art
Did Winslow Homer have a broken heart?
A Brief History of Pierre L’Enfant and Washington, D.C.
How one Frenchman’s vision became our capital city
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
Choreographer Lori Belilove pays homage to Isadora Duncan, the mother of contemporary dance
A high-tech investigation helps explain Winslow Homer’s staying power
Winslow Homer took watercolors to new levels. A Chicago exhibition charts the elusive New Englander’s mastery
Smithsonian regents tap engineer, educator G. Wayne Clough as the Institution’s next Secretary
Composer Irving Berlin wrote scores of hits on his custom-built instrument
Hot Horns
At the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Rococo experiences a revival
GNP or GNH?
In Milton Greene, Marilyn Monroe found a friend as well as a photographer who captured the range of her vibrant personality
Readers Respond to the March Issue
As it always does, given enough time
Interview with G. Wayne Clough
Smithsonian Institution’s 12th Secretary discusses his new role, his distinguished career in education and his favorite artifact
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