A new exhibition at Washington's National Gallery of Art tracks the development of seminal photographer Alfred Stieglitz
In celebrating the cultures of the ancient Silk Road, renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma has found a second calling
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Ed Rich gave magazines a whirl. And then some
Graham Greene's letters to his paramour, Catherine Walston, trace the hazy line between life and fiction
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After being eclipsed for centuries by her father, Orazio, Artemisia Gentileschi, the boldest female painter of her time, gets her due
At schools near Shaolin, the famous Buddhist temple, students from all over china vie to be the next Jet Li or Jackie Chan
An exhibition at Washington's National Gallery of Art takes a fresh look at one of Spain's most celebrated artists and the women he painted
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Photographer Edward Burtynsky's politically charged industrial landscapes are carefully crafted to elicit different interpretations
Robert Capa, famous for his battle photographs, made friends along the way
The season's first sap makes the finest maple syrup but not without some backbreaking labors of love
A magazine should have the zest of a good dinner party
Orlando Martinez, who lives and breathes the age-old sport of pigeon racing, goes for the Main Event
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Cavendish, Vermont 1981
What did the Russian author like about the United States? "[He] told me the air was free in America," Benson recalls.](https://th-thumbnailer.cdn-si-edu.com/O_qC_tCpYsmfX55-i3SZH2glOuc=/400x300/filters:no_upscale()/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/charmer_solzhenitsyn.jpg)
For half a century, photographer Harry Benson has been talking his way to the top of his game
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A sumptuous show documents how the Impressionists breathed new life into the staid tradition of still life painting
Our writers explore new worlds in time and space
When J.R.R. Tolkien finally completed his Lord of the Rings trilogy in 1949, the Oxford don scarcely imagined his fantasy epic would entrance readers
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