Skip to main content

Subscribe to Smithsonian magazine and get a FREE tote.

Arts & Culture

None

Movie Magic on the Mall

Museum flicks – from German silents to a comedy starring kangaroos – are not the typical fare

Chuck Close, self-portrait

Close Calls in Art and Life

None

The Hit Parade from Hell

None

Van Gogh’s Van Goghs

None

The Old Ball Game

It’s two, three, four strikes you’re out

None

Fired with Finesse

In North Carolina, artisans drawing on tradition and looking to the future are creating a hot market for pottery

Cornel Wilde

Conversation Stoppers

None

Timeless Tweed

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

None

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

None

A Mailbox with a Catch

None

“Hallelujah, I’m a Bum”

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

None

How the Bard Won the West

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

None

One Under the Sun

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

None

Sharing the Gift of Music

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

Page 359 of 371