Amanda Miller

Was Sie über ein universelles Netz wissen müssen

Was Sie über ein universelles Netz wissen müssen

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

Maria Anna Mozart: The Family’s First Prodigy

Maria Anna Mozart: The Family’s First Prodigy

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

An Unforgettable Photo of Martha Graham

An Unforgettable Photo of Martha Graham

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

Semiconductor on Volcanic Inspiration

Semiconductor on Volcanic Inspiration

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

The Last of the Cornish Packmen

The Last of the Cornish Packmen

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

Wernher von Braun’s V-2 Rocket

Wernher von Braun’s V-2 Rocket

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

A Velázquez in the Cellar?

A Velázquez in the Cellar?

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

Collaborations

Collaborations

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

Stolen: How the Mona Lisa Became the World’s Most Famous Painting

Stolen: How the Mona Lisa Became the World’s Most Famous Painting

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

A Larger-Than-Life Toussaint Louverture

A Larger-Than-Life Toussaint Louverture

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

Making Beautiful Art out of Beach Plastic

Making Beautiful Art out of Beach Plastic

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

True to Form

True to Form

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

Kenneth R. Fletcher on “The Beach”

Kenneth R. Fletcher on “The Beach”

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

Get Your Game On

Get Your Game On

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

Day of the Iguanas

Day of the Iguanas

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

Making History

Making History

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

Botticelli Comes Ashore

Botticelli Comes Ashore

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

Nancy Knowlton

Nancy Knowlton

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

From the Castle

From the Castle

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

Q&A: Cynthia Saltzman

Q&A: Cynthia Saltzman

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