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Edmonia Lewis, Prominent Black and Ojibwe Sculptor, Gets Her Own USPS Stamp

by Hakim Bishara January 4, 2022January 7, 2022

The stamp will debut on January 26 at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

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With a New Professional Development Program, American Art Journal Intends to Make Scholarly Publishing More Equitable

Avatar photo by Smithsonian American Art Museum August 30, 2021August 31, 2021

Scholars who are producing research on US-American art history and related visual culture topics have until September 15 to apply for Toward Equity in Publishing.

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Black Daguerreotypists Highlighted at the Smithsonian

by Cassie Packard August 29, 2021August 27, 2021

The American Art Museum purchased a collection of early American photographs spanning the 1840s to the mid-1920s.

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SAAM Highlights Cecilia Vicuña, Coco Fusco, and Mariam Ghani at Third Women Filmmakers Festival

Avatar photo by Smithsonian American Art Museum February 26, 2021March 4, 2021

From March 1 to 21, watch online screenings hosted by the Smithsonian American Art Museum and attend weekly conversations with the artists and museum curators.

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The Timely Dissent of a Vietnam War-Themed Show

Avatar photo by Suzaan Boettger April 16, 2019April 28, 2019

Less than a mile from the White House, the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Artists Respond boldly surveys how artists wrestled with showing how their government had gone wrong.

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The Beatitudes of Bill Traylor

by Kerry James Marshall October 3, 2018March 17, 2021

I wonder if it is possible for black Americans and white Americans to really see the same thing when they look at the creations of institutionally minted “modern” black artists.

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The Unsung Heroes of Burning Man Go Unnoticed

by Larissa Archer August 24, 2018August 23, 2018

A host of creative, kind, brave, funny people go unsung in No Spectators, which is centered on a narrow, affluent segment of the Burning Man population.

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An Early Modernist Master of Light Moves into the Spotlight

by Claire Voon January 5, 2018

His best-known work runs for a jaw-dropping nine years, 127 days, and 18 hours, and it was exhibited alongside works by Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, and Clyfford Still at the Museum of Modern Art.

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Go Behind the Scenes of 9 Museums With These Great Online Web Series

Avatar photo by Allison Meier October 19, 2017October 19, 2017

These nine museums are using online video series to take viewers behind the scenes of their collections.

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The Smithsonian Conserves Blood Pools and Charred Skeletons from 1940s Crime Dioramas

Avatar photo by Allison Meier October 5, 2017October 9, 2017

For the first time all 19 surviving Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death are going on public view, with an exhibition opening in October at the Smithsonian’s Renwick Gallery.

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Smithsonian American Art Museum Acquires Nearly 100 Works by Self-Taught Artists

Avatar photo by Allison Meier December 14, 2016

The Margaret Z. Robson Collection is the institution’s largest acquisition of its kind in two decades.

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A Lesbian Artist Who Painted Her Circle of Women at the Turn of the 20th Century

by Bridey Heing September 27, 2016September 30, 2016

WASHINGTON, DC — Tucked into a far corner of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, an exhibit showcases the extensive career of artist Romaine Brooks, a turn-of-the-20th-century icon who’s since been largely forgotten by the mainstream.

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