Cornel Wilde

Conversation Stoppers

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Timeless Tweed

On the Hebrides Isle of Harris, weavers are still producing their sought-after textile

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Leonardo’s Horse: A Long Shot Pays Off

500 years late, but 56 hands high

The barn at Cogswell's Grant, Essex, Massachusetts

A Passion for the Past

Bertram and Nina Little spent six decades amassing folk art that captures a corner of American history

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A Mailbox with a Catch

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“Hallelujah, I’m a Bum”

They took to the road in jobless thousands to escape failure, seek work or find a kind of freedom

A Brush with Gold

Sculptures by a modern master using age-old techniques will be on public view for the first time

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The Art of Money

Across the globe, the images on a country’s currency offer a window on its culture

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How the Bard Won the West

Mountain man Jim Bridger could recite Shakespeare with the best of them

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One Under the Sun

With a newly refurbished logo, the Smithsonian reaffirms its unity of purpose

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Sharing the Gift of Music

An endowment accompanying rare instruments lets them be heard in performances and on recordings

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Pierre Bonnard

The masterful modernist manipulated light, form and focus to create color-strewn scenes of everyday life

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The Man Who Dreamed Up Madeline

A dashing nonconformist himself, Ludwig Bemelmans conferred a winning waywardness on his headstrong heroine

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