America needed a Vietnam memorial. The contest drew 1,421 entries. The winner was denounced as “egg roll” and “a gook.” But Maya Lin’s “wall” still touches the nation’s heart.

It took courage to build skyscrapers, and courage to photograph the ones who “built America.”

The history was black. The colors were Harlem. Jacob Lawrence interwove them and lit up the past.

One man.  A vision.  Thirty years working in his backyard. The Watts Towers are "as pure a work of art as this country can rightly call its own."

American art was pretty and pink until The Ashcan School took the streets as its canvas.

"Would y'all like to see my Daddy's pottery?"  The garage door opened to reveal reds, blues, yellows, and genius. 

Turning the grand old flag into art took genius.

How an idea at a dinner party turned into an art masterpiece.  The table is set.

Photography was not art until Alfred Stieglitz and his little gallery insisted that it was.