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Arts, Culture & Media

Five Things You Had to See Online This Week

Mar 24, 2018

Conservator Ariel O’Connor uses X-ray fluorescence spectrometry to determine what metal alloy was used to construct the port engine of the Enterprise model

Boldly going where no TV prop has gone before

Jan 17, 2018

Native American musicians and the ‘Rumble’ beginnings of rock

Aug 4, 2017

Picture This: President Frank Underwood

Full EpisodeFeb 29, 2016

A visitor takes a "selfie" in front of art exhibit "Circle Uncircled" by artist Rahul Kumar.

You can bring your camera to see the art, but leave that selfie stick at home

Mar 9, 2015

The $2 billion remake of the Smithsonian in DC plans to use skylights to showcase art displayed underground.

A Danish architect gets the nod to remake ‘the backyard of the nation’

Nov 28, 2014