Romare Bearden: Man of Many Parts
A new exhibition showcases Bearden’s innovative collages and stakes a claim for him in the pantheon of 20th-century American artists
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Baghdad Beyond the Headlines
From gleeful schoolkids to a literary scholar who loves Humphrey Bogart, a photographer captures a reawakening but still wary city
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The Mad Potter of Biloxi
George E. Ohr’s wild, wonderful pots gathered dust in a garage for half a century. Now architect Frank Gehry is designing a museum dedicated to the artist
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Winner by a Decision
When Sonny Liston decided not to meet the Beatles 40 years ago, photographer Harry Benson pulled a switcheroo
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Big!
Pop artist James Rosenquist returns to the limelight with a dazzling retrospective of his larger-than-life works
Shooting Stars
Photographer Jack Pashkovsky disarmed Hollywood’s royalty with his ardor and persistence
Riding the Steppes
A 1,000-mile odyssey across Mongolia on horseback
Profile in Courage
Fifteen years later, a photograph of an anonymous protester facing down a row of tanks in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square still inspires astonishment
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The Elusive Marc Chagall
With his wild and whimsical imagery, the Russian-born artist bucked the trends of 20th-century art
Jazzed About Roy Haynes
A robust 78, one of the greatest drummers of all time still riffs up a storm and wows fellow musicians
Too Hot to Handle
Taken at the start of his multifaceted career, Gordon Parks’ photograph of a Washington, D.C. worker was so inflammatory it was buried for decades
Seeing Sylvia Plath
A new movie rekindles curiosity about the poet’s life, love and suicide at age 30
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Dream Weavers
In the Mexican village of Teotitlán, gifted artisans create a future from bright hand-loomed rugs
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Meet Phillip Glass
From opera halls to neighborhood movie theaters, Philip Glass attracts an enormous audience many of whom have never listened to classical music
Magic Moments
A new book and a Paris arts center pay homage to photography’s elusive 95-year-old grand master
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Book Review: Veiled Threat
Reading Lolita in Tehran
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Folk Art Jubilee
Self-taught artists and their fans mingle each fall at Alabama’s up close and personal Kentuck Festival
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Dead Lines
Today’s obituary writers sum up lives famous and not with pans as well as paeans
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Eminent Victorians
Julia Margaret Cameron’s evocative photographs of Lord Tennyson and other 19th-century British notables pioneered the art of portraiture
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Base Deception
In 1821, the French carved a classical Greek sculpture. In the Venus de Milo, they thought they finally had one. Never mind that it wasn’t really classical
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