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Paper Chase

Looking up his high school Permanent Record Card leaves our author curiously grateful for his failings

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Tony Blair Goes to War

In a new book, a British journalist documents the day-by-day march into conflict in Iraq

Robert Irwin collaborated with Dia director Michael Govan (pictured), and the architectural firm, OpenOffice, on the renovation of the 1929 factory that houses the new museum.

Beacon of Light

Groundbreaking art shines at the extraordinary new Dia: Beacon museum on New York’s Hudson River

Mark Twain (in 1906) "simply never, never goes stale," says editor Harriet Smith. If all goes well, annotating Twain's letters should be completed by 2021.

Keeping Up with Mark Twain

Berkeley researchers toil to stay abreast of Samuel Clemens’ enormous literary output, which appears to continue unabated

Newport, 1964: Waterman says he photographed Mississippi John Hurt (1893-1966), left, and Skip James (1902-1969) for posterity.

Focus on the Blues

Richard Waterman’s never-before-published photographs caught the roots music legends at their down-home best

After hearing about the attacks, Jenna Piccirillo took her son Vaughan and headed to the rooftop of her Brooklyn home.

September 11 From a Brooklyn Rooftop

Photographer Alex Webb captured a moment that showed, he says, the “continuity of life in the face of disaster”

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Picture This

Five Categories, 50 Finalists, Six Winners

The Dahlia necklace was produced in the Netherlands in 1984.

Man’s Reach

The Cooper-Hewitt explores the wide-ranging impact of historical and contemporary designs

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James Smithson’s Legacy

The Stranger and the Statesman: James Smithson, John Quincy Adams, and the Making of America’s Greatest Museum

"Dean of Weird Menace Art" John Newton Howitt's "River of Pain", done in 1934 for Terror Tales, is the only one of his pulp paintings known to survive. The rest were destroyed.

Guys and Molls

Bold, garish and steamy cover images from popular pulp-fiction magazines of the 1930s and ‘40s have made their way from newsstands to museum walls

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Mesopotamian Masterpieces

Exquisite art and artifacts from the world’s earliest civilization are dazzling visitors to New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Dream Assignment

Photographer Bob Adelman’s picture of Martin Luther King, Jr., taken 40 years ago, captures one of the greatest speeches in American history

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Haute Tomato

I can forgive the French for almost anything. Except dessert

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Heroes of the Underground Railroad

A groundbreaking chronicle sheds new light on one of the most dramatic chapters in American history

"This is the energy of American culture at its most useful and exuberant," says Philadelphia architectural historian George Thomas, 58, of motels like the Caribbean, whose vintage style is echoed in the 2001 renovation of the Starlux.

Doo Wop by the Sea

Architects and preservationists have turned a strip of New Jersey shore into a monument to mid-century architecture. Can they keep the bulldozers at bay?

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Land Shark

In his noir satires, novelist and eco-warrior Carl Hiaasen ravages those who dare to desecrate

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Nothing but the Struth

A new exhibition showcases the German photographer’s eye for art

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Shoot, Don’t Call

Announcing our first-ever photo contest

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Battling Smallpox; Renovating Paris

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Into the Breach

David Douglas Duncan’s Life photographs captured the courage and anguish of marines in Korea, bringing home the gravity of war

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