The Smithsonian Institution is closing its diversity office and freezing all federal hiring. The decision will affect dozens ...

(October 18, 2025, through August 30, 2026) “Grandma Moses: A Good Day’s Work” at the Smithsonian American Art Museum She didn’t begin painting in earnest until the age of 78. But when she ...

WASHINGTON — Art lovers, rejoice! The Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden has just hit the refresh button on its collection in a big way, welcoming 175 new works from over 60 modern ...

Gear up for fossil fun at the Florida Museum of Natural History’s “Cruisin’ Deep Time” Talk and Book Signing on Thursday, Feb ...

An archive of scores by composer Arnold Schoenberg and the collections of countless contemporary artists have been lost in the blaze Sonja Anderson The museum has been staging exhibitions ...

The Smithsonian Institution is closing its Office of Diversity, freezing federal hiring and ordering employees back to in-office work, according to an email sent by Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III.

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 ...

The museum closed its office of belonging and inclusion, halting a years-long effort to rebrand and broaden the racial makeup ...

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 ...

“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 ...