Bound for Glory
Or maybe not. America’s most grueling adult tricycle competition is tough on riders and equipment alike
Portraits on the Plains
Armed with easel, palette and pencil, George Catlin went west in the 1830s to paint the real “Wild West”
Book Reviews
For the Love of It: Amateuring and Its Rivals
The Grandeur That Was Rome
A new exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art showcases the Eternal City as the artistic and cultural capital of 18th-century Europe
A Unique Home for Cutting-edge Art
MASS MoCA, the nation’s newest and largest center for the contemporary arts, has brought a blue-collar New England town back to the future
Scythian Gold
An exhibition of treasures from ancient Ukraine illuminates a great warrior culture, notable for its relentless ferocity and remarkable art
Two for Tea
America’s only commercial tea crop is grown on an island with plants more than a century old
Bonding through Books
A good read gives mothers and daughters much more to talk about than just the plot
Moving Big Stuff
If you can move a lighthouse, you can move anything
Martin Johnson Heade: An American Original
A master of light, atmosphere and mood, the 19th-century artist is now recognized as one of this country’s great Romantic painters
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