Sherald, a graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art, lived in Baltimore for more than a decade, and half of the ...

To come up with the Kandinsky soundtrack, Martin, Lampe and pianist Mikhail Rudy, who served as the show’s musical adviser, ...

The institution’s 21 museums, zoo, and research centers are shuttered indefinitely as Congress remains in a stalemate over funding. Closed signage outside the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space ...

The Smithsonian’s collections speak to the resolve and ingenuity of America’s service members A chess set used during the ...

Artist Amy Sherald made headlines in 2018 when her official portrait of then-first lady Michelle Obama was unveiled at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery. She made headlines again this summer ...

A fossil mosasaur skull and partial skeleton excavated from Angola’s costal cliffs. Credit Hillsman S. Jackson, Southern Methodist University. The story of prehistoric ocean life that emerged in the ...

Agayuliyararput (Our Way of Making Prayer): The Living Tradition of Yup'ik Masks (Exhibition) (1997: New York, N.Y.) Ainu: Spirit of a Northern People (Exhibition) (1999: Washington, D.C.) Amber: ...

Institutions around the country are preparing for the nation’s 250th anniversary, even in the face of political crosswinds. The Renwick Gallery’s commemorative exhibition, State Fairs: Growing ...

The Museum of Art is preparing to open a new exhibition, "Amy Sherald: American Sublime," on Nov. 2. The exhibition is in ...

The look on the curator’s face said it all, and the intensity of the conversation was escalating by the moment. Confusion to worry. Worry to dread. “I want to do this,” the curator said. “But I don’t ...