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Last Hurrah

Everyone wanted to see the Babe the day they retired his number; photographer Nat Fein saw the story.

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Let There Be Light

From dark and cavernous to room for everybody

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Joe Robinson, Vacation Advocate, Santa Monica, Calif.

His prescription for overworked Americans: chill

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Q&A: Cheryl Henson

Cheryl Henson, Henson’s daughter and a muppet designer, spoke with Smithsonian’s Jennifer Drapkin

The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations' Millennium General Assembly was found in a garage after the 1964 death of its self-taught creator, Washington, D.C. janitor James Hampton.

Grand Reopening: Speaking of Art

Two museums return home and invite visitors to engage in “conversations”

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Interview with Adam Goodheart, Author of “Back to the Future”

The author talks about what makes the newly renovated Patent Office Building special

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An Interview with Author David Karp, Fruit Detective

The author of “Berried Treasure” discusses fruit mysteries and pith helmet style

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Interview with Andrew Lawler, Author of “A Mystery Fit for a Pharaoh”

Andrew Lawler discusses imperialism and the natural romance of studying ancient cultures.

Artist Andrew Wyeth at the age of 66

Wyeth’s World

In the wake of his death, controversy still surrounds painter Andrew Wyeth’s stature as a major American artist

Joe Booth -- livestock salesman in 1984 and lumberyard worker in 2005.

Time and Again

In 1984, Peter Feldstein set out to photograph everyone in Oxford, Iowa. Two decades later, he’s doing it again, creating a portrait of heartland America

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Land of the Wee

Where else can you decorate the bordello and exercise godlike powers?

Coal Miner’s Daughter

“I’m 15. I’m getting married. My mother doesn’t want me to get married.” But that’s just the beginning of the story

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Interview: David Roberts, Author of “Below the Rim”

Author David Roberts talks about what he found surprising while exploring the Grand Canyon.

The Libeskind-designed Jewish Museum Berlin

Jewish Museum Berlin

Architect Daniel Libeskind’s zinc lightning bolt of a building is one of the most revolutionary structures built since the war in Germany or anywhere

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Interview on the Legacy of Andrew Wyeth

Henry Adams, author of “Wyeth’s World,” speaks with the artist about his early work, influences and technique

China produces about two-thirds of the world's shoes, and its unofficial shoe-making capital is Wenzhou (Chen Wenyi makes a call at the Heyu Shoe Materials Company). Says one factory owner: "Wenzhounese work harder than anyone else in China."

A Tale of Two Chinas

As the red-hot Chinese economy feeds the world’s appetite for consumer goods, the workers’ republic is more than ever a nation of haves and have-nots

In 1919 Marcel Duchamp penciled a mustache and goatee on a print of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa and inscribed the work "L.H.O.O.Q." Spelled out in French these letters form a risqué pun: Elle a chaud au cul, or "She has hot pants." Intentionally disrespectful, Duchamp's defacement was meant to express the Dadaists' rejection of both artistic and cultural authority.

Switzerland

A Brief History of Dada

The irreverent, rowdy revolution set the trajectory of 20th-century art

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Forging its Own Future

Dedicated metalsmiths help a Memphis museum revive a lost American art form

James McNeill Whistler's palette, c. 1888-90.

Refined Palette

Scholars say this 19th-century artifact could have belonged to the celebrated American painter

Beowulf face to face with fire-breathing dragon

Evildoer

The Beowolf monster is a thousand years old, but his bad old tricks continue to resonate in the modern world

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