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The House that Art Built

Money is no object for the Getty Trust, as it builds its collections and does good works around the globe. Now it has a new home overlooking Los Angeles

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Hands-on Toys

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Look at Me

As far as Bernarr Macfadden was concerned, the main aim in life was to be noticed

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Time Out—Sports in Art

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The Rebirth of Shakespeare’s Globe

It took an American actor to champion the rebuilding of a British cultural symbol

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The Quiet Man of American Modernism

From the outside, Arthur Dove’s life appeared out of kilter, but his inner vision shone through

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Go West, Moran

A lifetime of painting the country’s natural treasures was this tenderfoot’s destiny

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Where Echoes of Spirits Still Dwell

Over a period of ten years, a photographer has documented the vanishing cultures of the Stone Age tribes of New Guinea

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Picasso Takes on the Masters

A book by Susan Galassi explains why the artist with an eye on the future kept returning to the art of the past

South Koreans stand by the cauldron of the 1988 Summer Olympics

A Video Visionary

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