In the 1910s and '20s, actress Mary Pickford was known as "Blondielocks" for her golden, sausage-like curls. General Photographic Agency/Getty Images hide caption
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Two self-portraits by Rembrandt, painted two years apart, are on display at the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, Calif. Ryan Miller/Capture Imaging/Courtesy of Norton Simon Museum hide caption
'He's Not A Leading Man': A Casting Director On Rembrandt's Self-Portraits
Kean, Subway Sandwich Artist by Shauna Frischkorn Shauna Frischkorn/Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery hide caption
From Sandwich Shops To Cotton Mills, Art That Honors The American Worker
The Carter Burden Gallery in Chelsea only shows works by artists who are at least 60 years old. Carter Burden Gallery hide caption
This New York Gallery Has An Unusual Age Limit: No Artists Younger Than 60
Stone bust of the goddess Sakhmet. Brooklyn Museum/Gift of Dr. and Mrs. W. Benson Harer, Jr. hide caption
It's great when generations get together to pass down family traditions, especially if the little ones might need a little extra time to get on board. Raquel Zaldivar/NPR hide caption
Mama Stamberg's Cranberry Relish Takes Heat From One Of The Family's Own
Left: Johannes Vermeer's Lady Writing, 1665. Right: Caspar Netscher's Woman Feeding a Parrot, with a Page, 1666. National Gallery of Art, Washington hide caption
Dutch Artists Painted Their Patriotism With Pearls And ... Parrots?
'Hank And Jim' Highlights The Long Friendship Of 2 Hollywood Legends
Phillips Collection curator Eliza Rathbone says Renoir was "at the height of his powers" when in he painted Luncheon of the Boating Party. The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. hide caption
Guess Who Renoir Was In Love With In 'Luncheon Of The Boating Party'
Curator Paola Antonelli says the white T-shirt is both timeless and universal. Courtesy Shutterstock/SFIO CRACHO/ The Museum of Modern Art, New York hide caption
We Are What We Wear: Exhibition Examines Clothing That Changed The World
Harvey Dunn's 1918 oil painting The Sentry shows a soldier coming up from the trenches. "You see in his eyes what would later become known as the thousand-yard stare," says exhibit curator Peter Jakab. Hugh Talman/National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution hide caption
Even In 'The War To End All Wars,' There Was Art Coming From The Trenches
The porches of the 1890s Allison Buildings, shown above in 1910, were later enclosed to provide more space for patient beds. National Archives and Records Administration/National Building Museum hide caption
'Architecture Of An Asylum' Tracks History Of U.S. Treatment Of Mental Illness
Senior conservator of paintings Ann Hoenigswald works to fill in elements of Paul Cézanne's Riverbank c. 1895 in the National Gallery of Art's Paintings Conservation Lab in Washington, D.C. Liam James Doyle/NPR hide caption