Matisse & Picasso
As a new exhibition makes clear, these friends and rivals spurred each other to change the course of 20th-century art
Monumental Achievement
Our 2002 profile of architect Maya Lin that marked the 20th year of the Vietnam Memorial
Master Class
Like generations of painters before them, artists from around the globe go to Paris to copy the masterpieces at the Louvre
Still Delightful
A sumptuous show documents how the Impressionists breathed new life into the staid tradition of still life painting
Magnificent Obsession
Artist Alberto Giacometti’s singular vision is celebrated in a special centennial exhibition at New York City’s Museum of Modern Art
Virtue and Beauty
The Renaissance Image of the Ideal Woman
Minding the “Milkstone”
When works of art are pollen and rice, and even milk, the Hirshhorn Museum gives them extra-special care
You, Too, Can Be a Rembrandt
The 1950s paint-by-number craze turned everyone into an instant artist. Critics were contemptuous, but even the President’s men were doing it
William Merritt Chase
Praised by critics, admired by colleagues and respected by students, the distinguished 19th-century artist produced paintings and pastels of gentle beauty
The Twigman Cometh
If Patrick Dougherty shows up in town, he’s there to make art - with a twist - out of sticks
Art Nouveau
The exuberant fin de siècle style is celebrated in a sweeping exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington
Imagining the Orient
A new exhibition explores the potent mystique of the Near East and its sway on American Art and Culture
Waterlogging
After more than a century on the bottom of Lake Superior, a sunken treasure of old-growth wood comes alive again
Tickling the Sky
Israeli designer Doron Gazit has harnessed the wind to create immense visual surprises and a whole new form of art
“The Stormy Petrel of American Art”
Rockwell Kent was a master of bucolic landscapes, but his contentious politics earned him the nickname
Rescue and Restoration
Saving major works of art from decay
Beirut Rises from the Ashes
After surviving a civil war, the city is once again a mecca for artists, a landscape covered with architecture and a wonderland of discoveries
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
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