To mark the 2024 presidential election, the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery will present “Picturing the Presidents: ...

Fiber has long inspired women artists, although their ingenuity with threads and cloth was often dismissed as domestic work ...

48 states in the United States have officially designated State Insects.

Director Wes Ball breathes new life into the global, epic franchise set several generations in the future following Caesar’s reign, in which apes are the dominant species living harmoniously and ...

The story of the 1913 Armory Show cannot be told without the Archives of American Art. The Archives holds the largest accumulation of primary source material, ranging from official records produced by ...

As American business expanded in the second half of the 19th century, and cash transactions replaced barter, shopkeepers took steps to secure their money. Slips recording transactions could be entered ...

As store ads fill your mailbox at home and spam fills your inbox at work, rekindle your holiday spirit with hand-made holiday cards. The cards featured in this exhibition offer insight into how ...

Jennifer Brosnahan McIntyre is the chief legal officer for the Smithsonian Institution. She assumed the position March 11, 2024. McIntyre is the principal legal advisor to the Secretary; the Board of ...

“Blossom Time” (detail), Willard Metcalf (1858–1925), United States, 1910, oil on canvas, National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, Freer Gallery of Art Collection, Gift of Charles Lang ...

In the pendant surrounding the Hope Diamond are 16 white diamonds, both pear-shapes and cushion cuts. A bail is soldered to the pendant where Mrs. McLean would often attach other diamonds including ...

On July 20, Apollo 11, carrying three U.S. astronauts, landed on the moon. The event was a unifying moment for America in a decade rife with social discord, racial violence, and antiwar protests.

Don Eddy once described himself as “an obsessive-compulsive precisionist.” The execution of his hyperrealistic paintings requires tremendous discipline and scrupulous attention to detail. His process ...