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Last fall, Stephanie Stebich stepped down as director of the American Art Museum after complaints that she had fostered a toxic work environment. She remains with the Smithsonian as senior advisor ...
The arts and humanities organizations, led by visionary change agents, do much more than organizing cultural events: they ...
Funding for the report was provided by the Andrew Mellon, Alice L. Walton and Ford Foundations. In 2023, Mellon committed ...
Civil rights advocates, historians and Black political leaders sharply rebuked Trump on Friday for his order, entitled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History.” ...
Because the Smithsonian can receive private funding, it is not entirely in trouble-but the long-term effects remain unclear.
The sculpture DNA Study Revisited by artist Roberto Lugo, part of the exhibition The Shape of Power: Stories of Race and American Sculpture at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, is seen on ...
The written descriptions of works of art are more than just labels—they are a record of evolving cultural understanding, writes Curationist's Amanda Figueroa ...
Sackler gallery, SI The Dalai Lama can be trusted to recognize an impressive donation of Tibetan art when he sees it ... didn’t want his Asian and American pieces lent out, or “outside ...
THE SMITHSONIAN DRAMA CONTINUES, with the Washington Postreporting yesterday that Kevin Young, the director of the National Museum of African American History and C ...
Iconic TIME Cover by Kiyoshi Saito, First Woodblock Print Featured, Showcases Cultural Diplomacy 1967: Saito's TIME Cover Blends Art and Di ...
For nearly a decade, scholars of fascism have tried to explain the ways in which Trumpism reflects fascist ideology.