An invited guest at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in July 1969, artist Robert Rauschenberg watched Apollo 11 lift off on its unprecedented journey to the moon. For NASA’s art program, he and a group of ...
Leonardo da Vinci was a pioneering painter and inventor—and, perhaps, bird lady. Avians appear in a number of the 13,000 notebook pages he produced, from the kite hawks of Codex Atlanticus (c. 1478) ...
John James Audubon (1785-1851) is a much-studied personality, his journals and writings giving historians such tasty fodder that it might seem difficult to present a fresh view of this unruly genius.