Was Sie über ein universe...

Wenn Sie universal ofe-gitter kaufen möchten, müssen Sie einige Dinge berücksichtigen. In diesem Art...

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Maria Anna Mozart: The Fa...

“Virtuosic.” “A prodigy.” “Genius.” These words were written in the 1760s about Mozart—Maria Anna Mo...

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An Unforgettable Photo of...

Barbara Morgan’s 1940 image of Martha Graham in the ballet Letter to the World may be the most famou...

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Semiconductor on Volcanic...

Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt , the British performance artists better known as Semiconductor, are develop...

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The Last of the Cornish Packme...

Before the coming of the railways, and the buses, and the motor car, when it was not uncommon for is...

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Wernher von Braun’s V-2 R...

In 1960, Columbia Pictures released a movie about NASA rocket scientist Wernher von Braun called I Aim...

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A Velázquez in the Cellar...

John Marciari first spotted the painting among hundreds of other works carefully filed in pullout racks...

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Collaborations

Imagine a time when students in one of the poorest schools in Africa become scientists for a week by...

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Stolen: How the Mona Lisa...

It was a quiet, humid Monday morning in Paris, 21 August 1911. Three men were hurrying out of the Louvre...

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A Larger-Than-Life Toussaint...

An imposing sculpture by Senegalese artist Ousmane Sow—the centerpiece of a new exhibition, “African...

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Making Beautiful Art out of...

Judith Lang waves from a kelp pile on Kehoe Beach, shouting to her husband. “Here’s the Pick of the...

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True to Form

Gazing up at an amazingly lifelike 45-foot-long right whale, visitors to the new Sant Ocean Hall at the...

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Kenneth R. Fletcher on “T...

Kenneth Fletcher graduated with a master's degree in journalism from University of Maryland, where he...

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Get Your Game On

It began with the man who would not talk about his tattoos.He walked bare-chested into an academic confer...

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Day of the Iguanas

In the early 1920s, Diego Rivera returned to Mexico City from a trip to Oaxaca and began telling friends...

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Making History

Animals are usually the "guinea pigs" for human medicine, but a recent case at Smithsonian's National...

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Botticelli Comes Ashore

"How much do you want a Botticelli?" The question was sent to Isabella Stewart Gardner in Boston in a...

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Nancy Knowlton

Renowned coral reef biologist Nancy Knowlton was recently appointed to the Smithsonian's Sant Chair for...

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From the Castle

At the recent Smithsonian Folklife Festival, NASA astronaut Loren Shriver was asked what struck him most...

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Q&A: Cynthia Saltzman

Your book profiles several of the great 19th-century American collectors of European Old Master paintings...

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