Smithsonian articles from May 2002

Smithsonian archives from May 2002

Artemisia's Moment : AFTER BEING ECLIPSED FOR CENTURIES BY HER FATHER, ORAZIO, ARTEMISIA GENTILESCHI, THE BOLDEST FEMALE PAINTER OF HER TIME, GETS HER DUE.(Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
May 1, 2002... Holofernes' head is upside down. His face writhes in agony. Judith drives her knee into his rib cage as he fights wildly, pushing his fist against her maidservant's breastbone. As Judith slices Holofernes' neck, blood spurts from his throat and...

Drawn from Prehistory : DEEP WITHIN MEXICO'S BAJA PENINSULA, NOMADIC PAINTERS LEFT BEHIND THE LARGEST TROVE OF ANCIENT ART IN THE AMERICAS.(Column)(Statistical Data Included)
May 1, 2002... The figures are everywhere. some are stabbed with arrows and spears. Others seem to stand, horror-struck, arms jabbing straight out from their sides, or raised (bent at the elbows, hands open) in a "don't shoot" gesture of supplication. Several...

My Ears Are Bent.
May 1, 2002... My Ears Are Bent Joseph Mitchell Foreword by Sheila McGrath and Dan Frank Pantheon, $23 When I first read Joseph Mitchell in the New Yorker in the 1950s, I felt like a cult of one, awed by the beauty of his prose and his gentle,...

Mary Shelley.
May 1, 2002... Mary Shelley Miranda Seymour Grove Press, $35 In the preface to her compelling biography of Mary Shelley, Miranda Seymour confesses that, in an earlier work, she portrayed the 18th-century writer as a "sulky, bad-tempered young woman,...

Auto-mated : A CURIOUS BOND OFTEN DEVELOPS ON THE ROAD. VERY CURIOUS.(Enrico Ferorelli/Bruce Watson, Smithsonian)(Brief Article)(Editorial)
May 1, 2002... Whenever possible, we like to send Smithsonian photographers and writers out on stories together, as we did this month for both "Drawn from Prehistory," which documents some extraordinary cave paintings in Baja California (p. 100), and "A Rally...

Home on the Range : A NEW PUBLIC TELEVISION SERIES TRANSPLANTS THREE AMERICAN FAMILIES TO THE FRONTIER WEST OF 1883, WITHOUT ELECTRICITY, RUNNING WATER OR--GASP!--VISITS TO THE MALL.(Frontier House)
May 1, 2002... When 9-year-old Logan Patton started getting headaches, it created something of a dilemma for the producers of Frontier House, a six-part series scheduled to begin airing on PBS stations April 29. The problem was that aspirin and other...

Heroes Then and Now.(firefighters in "Lull in the Battle" by Jerry Gay)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... You can't tell what time of day it is, the fog and smoke are so thick. Bare branches heighten the gothic mood. The ground is mud. An overturned wheelbarrow hints at chaos. One man turns toward the mysterious glow while the others--wet,...