With the government shutdown continuing into the new year, Smithsonian museums, along with the National Zoo, must prepare to close as well.
December 28, 2018
Week in Review: Ivory Coast Demands 148 Works From France, Banksy Work Appears in Wales
Also, the Park Avenue Armory receives a grant from the city, Agnes Gund and Oprah Winfrey will help chair a charity art auction, and more.
Barry Jenkins and Kahlil Joseph Reimagine Roy DeCarava’s Admiring Vision of Harlem
Director Barry Jenkins’ If Beale Street Could Talk and video artist Kahlil Joseph’s “Fly Paper” transmute the aesthetics and storytelling of photographer Roy DeCarava’s 1950s portraits of Harlem.
A View From the Easel
This week, artist studios in Belgium, California, England, New York, and Texas.
Astronomical Images of Newly-Formed Galaxies
Recently, researchers released high-resolution images of the swirls and rings of still-forming planetary and star systems.
Artists and Poets Look at Homelands from a Distance
The Far Shore: Navigating Homelands at the Arab American National Museum amplifies individual immigrant voices, presenting them as fully human rather than as statistical abstractions.