“All the pretty, cushy places on earth have already been studied,” said photographer Chip Clark with a laugh in conversation with Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, where he worked from 1973 until his death in the summer of 2010. He was on the ground with scientists when they collected samples and data, roughing it in tents, sharing space with bugs and critters of all kinds.
An exhibition at The Baltimore Museum of Art pays tribute to the first woman to head a major metropolitan museum. She helped the museum acquire Matisse, Cassatt, Cézanne and Van Gogh masterpieces.