Water towers as art: Iconic urban fixtures decorate a Chicago park
Art Under the Sun: Iván Navarro's neon-decorated sculptures speak of a society chasing dreams of economic advancement, social mobility, and home
Arts
Cowgirl photographer Barbara Van Cleve
Born and bred in Montana, at 84 she still runs cattle with the best – and is celebrated for chronicling the lives of ranch women with her evocative images of the American West
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater at 60
Founded by the groundbreaking dancer-choreographer, one of the world's preeminent modern dance companies continues his legacy with a new generation
How the Peanuts character Woodstock got his name
The Charles M. Schulz Museum, in Santa Rosa, Calif., is celebrating one of the comic strip's most popular characters: the little "hippie bird" who became a devoted friend of Snoopy's
Face value: Portraits on money
Seth Dickerman's portraits of presidents that appear on our currency, magnified up to 10,000%, make the stoic profiles that are so familiar look strangely new
Black models in modern art
A recent NYC exhibition, now at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, explores the importance of black models as key to the development of 19th and 20th century art
Graffiti beyond the streets
What was once a symbol of New York's 'bad old days' is now being celebrated. Serena Altschul reports on "Beyond the Streets," the largest exhibition of graffiti and street art ever produced
Surrealist art and war
The exhibition "Monsters & Myths" explores how war's real-life monstrosities bred metaphorical monsters in mid-20th century paintings and sculptures by such artists as Dalí, Ernst, Masson and Miró
The delicate craft of wood carver David Esterly
The sculptor's finely-detailed, expressive works are conjured from the subtle neurological connections between the artist's brain and hands, now afflicted with ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease
Teddy Abrams, the Louisville Orchestra's rock star
At 32 he is the youngest conductor of a major orchestra in the United States, and he's done what most orchestras are desperate to do: increased the audience, young and old
Trafficking in art
In Florence the hottest new art pieces are Clet Abraham's doctored street signs – playful, funny and irreverent
Florentine artisans: Preserving the traditions of Medici taste
The Italian city still has a thriving culture of artisanship, with historic roots that go back 600 years
David, the quintessence of Renaissance art
Michelangelo's 17-foot-tall masterpiece stands front-and-center at the Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence
Street art: Japanese manhole covers
Colorful designs adorn the lids to the sewers in towns across the country, inspiring flocks of fans, called "manholers," to engage in manhole tourism
J.R.R. Tolkien's creation of Middle-earth, on display in New York City
An exhibition at the Morgan Library and Museum explores the fantasy author's creative process
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