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Arts & Culture

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From the Castle

Sci-High

"Bad Boy", oil on linen, 66 inches x 96 inches by Eric Fischl

Always Something There to Remind Me

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Submit Your Entries

The editors of Smithsonian invite you to enter our 5th Annual Photo Contest

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Around the Mall & Beyond

Scenes and sightings from the Smithsonian Museums and beyond…Put a tiger in your pocket

Gaetano Pesce, Mediterraneo, 2006

Ceiling the Deal

A Thousand Words Are Worth a Picture

Fall Preview

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People in Glass Houses…Really Seem to Enjoy Themselves

The Virgin Mother

A Study in Contrasts

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Let the Good Times Scroll

A Hard Day’s Work

A Summer of Blockbusters and Sleeper Hits

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Wal-Mart Art

Getting Your Kicks

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What’s Up

Jim Henson, photojournalist Lola Alvarez Bravo and the heaviest bird that can fly

Louis Castro (bottom row, left) played 42 games as a second baseman for the Philadelphia Athletics during the 1902 season. Because his birthplace is questioned by baseball historians, he may or may not have been the first Hispanic player in the Major Leagues.

Debating Louis Castro

Was he the first foreign-born Hispanic in the Major Leagues?

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The Real Frida Kahlo

A new exhibition offers insights into the Mexican painter’s private life

"The Places in Between," by Rory Stewart

The New Civil Service

An excerpt from Rory Stewart’s “The Places in Between”

Kerouac (with the author in Greenwich Village in 1957) was as unprepared as anyone else for his novel's surprise impact.

Remembering Jack Kerouac

A friend of the author of “On the Road,” published 50 years ago this month, tells why the novel still matters

Ojibwa tribe members gather 50,000 pounds of wild rice each fall on the White Earth Indian Reservation in Minnesota (Ryan Stevens "knocks" grains into a canoe while James Frederick poles).

Going With the Grain

On Minnesota lakes, Native Americans satisfy a growing hunger for “slow food” by harvesting authentically wild rice the old-fashioned way

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