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Lads Without Plaids

Kiltless in Scotland: An Action Plan

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Operatic Entrance

As Paris feted Queen Elizabeth II, photographer Bert Hardy found a circumstance to match her pomp

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Comic Phyllis Diller’s Cabinet Keeps the Jokes Coming

The stand up comic’s archive holds a lifetime of proven punch lines

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What’s Up

Visual music, Macbeth and people wearing hats

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Writer Turned Scientist

In this interview, Mary K. Miller, author of “Reading Between the Lines,” describes becoming a shift supervisor in the lab

Many artists throughout history, including Van Gogh, Cellini, and Michelangelo,  have led lives worthy of tabloid headlines.

Artists Behaving Badly

Temperamental masters of the art world

"War Thoughts at Home" is only one small part of a much larger research project, says Stilling.

Frost Bite

A recently discovered poem by Robert Frost has brought fame—and controversy—to an English student

At a time when women were defined by their husbands and judged by the quality of their housework, Margaret Bourke-White set the standard for photojournalism and expanded the possibilities of being female. (Self-Portrait, 1943, Margaret Bourke-White, 19 1/8" x 15 1/4" Vintage gelatin silver print from the Richard and Ellen Sandor Family Collection)

A Life Less Ordinary

One of Life magazine’s original four photographers, Margaret Bourke-White snapped shots around the world

Frank Gehry's Louis Vuitton design

Art in Glass Houses

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Martin Ramirez

Colored Sand and Gunpowder

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Vanished Drawings

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The Biggest Guggenheim Ever

Sculptors and artists designed lifelike masks for gravely wounded soldiers.

World War I: 100 Years Later

Faces of War

Amid the horrors of World War I, a corps of artists brought hope to soldiers disfigured in the trenches

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What’s Up

A list of events and exhibitions at the Smithsonian Institution

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