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Smithsonian Says Goodbye to Odetta

A look back on the performer’s life

Mark Catesby's Blue Jay.

Mark Catesby’s New World

The artist sketched American wildlife for Europe’s high society, educating them on the creatures living among the unexplored lands

John White likely did this study of a male Atlantic loggerhead on a stop in the West Indies en route to "Virginia" in 1585.  "Their heads, feet, and tails look very ugly, like those of a venomous serpent," wrote Thomas Harriot, the expedition's scientist, of New World tortoises.  "Nevertheless they are very good to eat, as are their eggs."

Sketching the Earliest Views of the New World

The watercolors that John White produced in 1585 gave England its first startling glimpse of America

Installation artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude.  Together they built "Running Fence", a 24.5-mile fabric divide through Northern California.

Q and A: Christo and Jeanne-Claude

The artists discuss Running Fence, their 1976 fabric installation that ran through Northern California and subject of an upcoming Smithsonian exhibition

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DIY Cartoons on a Budget

The latest installment of the Hirshorn’s Art Lab

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To Be A Successful Art Collector

39 highly conceptual paintings, sculptures, wall drawings, installations and films

Courtesy of Municipal Gallery in Lenbachhaus.  Two riders before the red, 1911, woodblock, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn.

Feeling Blue: Expressionist Art on Display in Munich

Visitors catch a glimpse of the groundbreaking, abstract art created bypreeminent 20th century expressionists

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Fake Radio War Stirs Terror Through US: Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds turns 70

Seventy years ago, Orson Welles whipped millions of Americans into a martian-crazed panic with a radio play adaptation of H.G. Welles’ War of the Worlds

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