ARTISTS
2022
Brilliantly colored and full of visual drama, Bisa Butler's larger-than-life sized quilted portraits are nearly indistinguishable from paintings.
2021
The upcoming 2023 Renwick Invitational explores how Indigenous worldviews and the present moment inform what Native artists are making today
From roses on teacups to berries on wallpaper, natural motifs are common in the decorative arts.
Finally, you can meet the baby panda in person; tips for visiting and acquiring free tickets. Seven Smithsonian museums and the National Zoo will reopen in May, following months of closure during the Covid-19 pandemic.
2020
For four days in early March, a glamorous crowd of elite international art buyers sipped wine and nibbled on passed canap茅, intimately mingling, yet often eschewing embraces and cheek kisses to greet each other with an elbow bump.
In an official statement, the Institution announced a temporary closing of all its public facilities beginning November 23.
The Smithsonian Institution last week greeted its October 1 fiscal new year by laying off 237 employees in its first permanent job cuts since the Covid-19 pandemic forced the Washington, DC鈥揵ased institution to close its doors on March 14.
Two months after the Smithsonian successfully reopened the National Zoo and the National Air and Space Museum鈥檚 Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Va., four more museums will welcome back visitors on Friday.
Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists celebrates the works of North American Indigenous women throughout history and into the present.
We've been thinking about mothers a lot lately. Not just because they do so much for everyone under normal circumstances, but because these days, many moms are juggling full-time childcare and office hours, plus a whole lot of extra stress.
Transform your Zoom virtual background or computer desktop into a work of art
Andrea Kirsh visits an exhibition of pan-Pacific indigenous art, and follows up with a two-part book review about indigenous art.
2019
The Smithsonian鈥檚 American Women鈥檚 History Initiative (鈥淏ecause of Her Story鈥�) asks us to consider the stories of notable figures in our history whose achievements have not always received the full appreciation they merit.
Burning Man is a polarizing topic here in the Bay Area, where the arts and music festival was founded in 1986 at Baker Beach in San Francisco.
North Carolina ceramist Michael Sherrill set out to make if not a better teapot, at least a more distinctive one.