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  • Dancer Judith Jamison (Max Waldman)

    Photo Gallery: Women of Our Time: Twentieth-Century Photographs

    The Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery has launched a new exhibition, Women of Our Time: Twentieth-Century Photographs, that celebrates the lives of U.S. women who helped shape the 20th century. Meet a few of these visionaries on America.gov.

On the Record

Quote BeginningActing isn't really a creative profession. It's an interpretive one.End Quote

American actor Paul Newman (1925-2008)

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  • Artist Joseph Menna (U.S. Mint)

    Artist Joseph Menna, who earned fine-arts degrees in Philadephia and New York, also studied monumental and architectural sculpture in Russia. Today, he is a medallic sculptor at the U.S. Mint facility in Philadelphia, and his designs appear on new coins each year.

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  • Eastern European Stars Shine in U.S. Arts

    Much of 20th century American culture was shaped by Eastern European artists who emigrated to the United States. Today, leading artists from Eastern Europe continue to gravitate to America.