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The "Turkish Room" was created from pieces of the interior of a 19th-century Damascus mansion.

The Honolulu hideaway built by “the richest girl in the world” is now a museum showcasing her unique collection of Islamic art

March 2004

Big!

Pop artist James Rosenquist returns to the limelight with a dazzling retrospective of his larger-than-life works

January 1, 2004

"Olmec butterfly" rug by Isaac Vasquez of Oaxaca

Dream Weavers

In the Mexican village of Teotitlán, gifted artisans create a future from bright hand-loomed rugs

November 1, 2003

Matisse & Picasso

As a new exhibition makes clear, these friends and rivals spurred each other to change the course of 20th-century art

February 2003

A New York residence designed by Lin is adaptable, "like origami or a transformer toy," says the architect in her studio with Ranch the cat.

Monumental Achievement

Our 2002 profile of architect Maya Lin that marked the 20th year of the Vietnam Memorial

November 1, 2002

American Will Thompson (with his take on Goya's Young Woman with a Fan) has been copying at the Louvre since 1994.

Master Class

Like generations of painters before them, artists from around the globe go to Paris to copy the masterpieces at the Louvre

March 2001

Edgar Degas rarely painted a pure still life, but he often included still lifes in the backgrounds or corners of his compositions. In The Millinery Shop (1882-86), the hatstheir shapes, textures and colorstake center stage; the figure is merely an accessory.

Still Delightful

A sumptuous show documents how the Impressionists breathed new life into the staid tradition of still life painting

March 2002

Magnificent Obsession

Artist Alberto Giacometti’s singular vision is celebrated in a special centennial exhibition at New York City’s Museum of Modern Art

November 1, 2001

Virtue and Beauty

The Renaissance Image of the Ideal Woman

August 31, 2001

Bedtime Horrors

April 30, 2001

Minding the “Milkstone”

When works of art are pollen and rice, and even milk, the Hirshhorn Museum gives them extra-special care

April 1, 2001

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

March 1, 2001

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

February 1, 2001

The Twigman Cometh

If Patrick Dougherty shows up in town, he’s there to make art - with a twist - out of sticks

December 1, 2000

The Pygmalion of the Avant-Garde

November 1, 2000

At the Moulin Rouge (1895), a painting by Henri Toulouse-Lautrec that captures the vibrant and decadent spirit of society during the fin de siècle.

Art Nouveau

The exuberant fin de siècle style is celebrated in a sweeping exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington

September 30, 2000

Imagining the Orient

A new exhibition explores the potent mystique of the Near East and its sway on American Art and Culture

August 31, 2000

Waterlogging

After more than a century on the bottom of Lake Superior, a sunken treasure of old-growth wood comes alive again

August 31, 2000

Tickling the Sky

Israeli designer Doron Gazit has harnessed the wind to create immense visual surprises and a whole new form of art

July 31, 2000

“The Stormy Petrel of American Art”

Rockwell Kent was a master of bucolic landscapes, but his contentious politics earned him the nickname

July 31, 2000