The Rise and Fall of an American Dream
How one photographer saw the promise of public housing in L.A.'s Aliso Village
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Read MoreMany know Lyonel Feininger as an accomplished painter, printmaker, and caricaturist whose work is forever linked to the Bauhaus movement. He was Walter Gropius’s first faculty appointment to the Weimar art school in 1919, and he helped shape an...
Read MoreUnderstanding the special relationship between a scientist and an architect that led to the Salk Institute.
Read MoreTwin sisters who make powerful and mysterious images.
Read MoreA poet and a curator respond to Lange’s influential work
Read MoreHow the history of ancient Egypt has been explored, documented, and understood through the work of European Egyptologists.
Read MoreA military officer finds inspiration in Renaissance art.
Read MoreHow are architectural models conserved?
Read MoreLearning from the Director of the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Gus Casely-Hayford.
Read MoreThe position of the signs of the zodiac in the night sky and movement of the planets influenced everyday decisions in the Middle Ages, from bloodletting to flower picking.
Read MoreThe art and politics of border walls.
Read MoreMexican cooking as we know and love it in the U.S.—moles, carne asada, burritos, cafe con leche, loads of melty cheese—would have been unrecognizable to the Aztecs. They didn’t have cows, pigs, sugar, cheese, butter, cinnamon, or wheat. They...
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