“Pictures of Belonging” traces the careers of three female artists who flourished despite the U.S. government’s imprisonment of Japanese Americans during World War II. By Aruna D’Souza One ...

Moreover, the National Portrait Gallery only takes up half of the building and shares the space with the Smithsonian American Art Museum. This museum showcases rotating exhibits, which have ...

Nicola Wood, Senior Editor Designed to replicate the three-tiered crowns found in Yoruban art from West ... Americans, the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture opened ...

Free tickets are available here. Where: G St., NW and Eighth St., NW. The Lunar New Year Family Celebration at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Photograph by Norwood photography. For the 11th year ...

who commissioned several of the museum’s earliest portraits. In the early 20th century, Davis commissioned an art student, Florence Harris, to travel to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington ...

Seeing sound through art. The rich sounds ... Looking for more? Visit Smithsonian Jazz at the National Museum of American History and Smithsonian Folkways.

The Smithsonian American Art Museum and Renwick Gallery in Washington, D.C., has a number of photographs by Sally Mann in its collection, including three from her earlier series that include ...

Breanna Saxon found her first photo booth at a thrift store in Alabama for $200. Since then, she has been affectionately ...

Harry T. Moore and his wife Harriette were killed by the Ku Klux Klan in 1951 when a bomb was placed under their home in Mims.

Harris's photographs, which capture Black life in mid-20th-century America, are now the subject of a permanent exhibit at the ...

While lectures on the legacies of Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and Harriet Tubman are all important, some educators (and their students) are eager to learn more about underrepresented ...

Jacqueline Kennedy, 1961 Mrs Kennedy had committed to making the White House “a showcase of American art and ... held at the Smithsonian Institution - the location of the museum which today ...