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The Museum of Modern Art is setting up a Richard Serra retrospective — which means getting his immense steel structures into the building.
A trip to the Arctic turns an avowed capitalist into an environmentalist.
Skeptics say the girl in the painting is too pretty to be the Pride and Prejudice author. Web Extra: See the Portrait
April 16, 2007 · Architect Louis Sullivan's buildings defined the city of Chicago at the turn of the last century, but by the 1950s, many of those buildings were being torn down. Photographer Richard Nickel raced against time to preserve them on film, but it was a race he lost — Nickel was killed when one of the buildings he was shooting collapsed on top of him. Web Extra: See Nickel's Photos and a Self-Portrait
April 9, 2007 · Modern-art pioneer Sol LeWitt has died at age 78, leaving behind a legacy of strikingly simple invention. He was known for his dynamic wall paintings — and as a founder of minimal and conceptual art styles. Web Extra: See Examples LeWitt's Work
April 8, 2007 · After 25 years of painstaking restoration in Italy, Lorenzo Ghiberti's gilded-bronze "Gates of Paradise" — lavish doors considered masterpieces of Renaissance art — will travel to the United States. Web Extra: Photos of the Doors
April 8, 2007 · Pollen is making its mark as the latest tool for allergy-ridden amateur artists in Decatur, Ga. Louisa Bailey and others ahve put their sniffles aside to draw pictures in the yellow stuff.
April 5, 2007 · A new photo exhibition in Houston, "Guantanamo: Pictures from Home," features photographs were taken for Guantanamo detainees by their lawyers. To win their trust, the lawyers traveled to the detainees' family homes in the Middle East.
April 4, 2007 · Artist Kara Walker is known for life-sized silhouettes created from freehand drawings. Cutouts were used in Victorian times as portraits of quiet repose. Walker's silhouettes depict the violence of slavery.
March 29, 2007 · Letting kids dip maggots into paint may sound merely disgusting — but there's an entomologist from U.C.-Davis who calls it art. Rebecca O'Flaherty is using the maggot art to teach respect for a larva most people associate with road-kill. Under her guidance, students dip maggots in water-based paint.
March 28, 2007 · Richard Rogers, who has won architecture's top prize, designs buildings that flaunt their infrastructure — like Centre Pompidou in Paris. But he also has an interest in city planning, and pushes for walkable, welcoming cities. One of his new buildings is part of the World Trade Center site.
March 26, 2007 · Chris Hondros has done nine tours in Iraq as a photographer. He talks about memorable images, including that of a little girl — splattered with her dead parents's blood — crouched in darkness near a U.S. soldier. Web Extra: Audio Slideshow
March 25, 2007 · Up the the street from NPR's Washington office is Warehouse, a neighborhood cafe and art space, where Christopher Goodwin is showing his latest project. He packs tiny found objects into plastic spheres that are sold out of a dispenser for 25 cents apiece.
March 29, 2007 · An increasing number of artists are working with digital technologies and that's posing some new and especially difficult preservation problems for museums. One difficulty is what to do when a work of art needs to keep a hard drive running, or maintain an Internet connection.
March 24, 2007 · Photographer Mark Edward Harris traveled to North Korea for the mass gymnastic games and gathered vivid snapshots throughout the country. His photographs are collected in a new book, Inside North Korea. Web Extra: Photo Gallery
A vast new exhibit illuminates the wide-ranging cultural influences that went into Latin America.
In the 1970s, Clifford Irving got a million-dollar advance for an "autobiography" of Howard Hughes.
A question over the film's music rights has kept it out of theaters, despite its legions of fans.
