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Smithsonian Cafeteria Workers Call for Higher Wages

Avatar photo by Elaine Velie April 10, 2023April 10, 2023

Some contracted cooks and other food service workers at the institution’s museums report taking two jobs to pay the bills.

Posted inFilm

MTV’s The Exhibit Is All That’s Wrong With the Art World

by Rhea Nayyar April 7, 2023April 7, 2023

The sixth episode and season finale ultimately leaned into the very issues the reality show was ostensibly trying to address.

Posted inOpinion

Nancy Yao Will Not Be Missed

Avatar photo by Youth Against Displacement April 6, 2023April 6, 2023

As president of the Museum of Chinese in America, she patronized Chinatown residents and supported their displacement. She is not fit to lead the American Women’s History Museum.

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Hirshhorn’s The Exhibit Premieres With Inflatable Banana and Lots of Cringe

by Rhea Nayyar March 6, 2023March 7, 2023

The Exhibit: Finding the Next Great Artist is filled with awkward silences and art-world jargon.

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Smithsonian to House Repatriated Yemeni Artifacts

Avatar photo by Taylor Michael February 23, 2023February 23, 2023

The National Museum of Asian Art will temporarily store the 77 cultural relics as looting and destruction of antiquities continues in the war-torn country.

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Harmful Pesticides in Museum Collections Complicate Repatriation Efforts

Avatar photo by Maya Pontone February 23, 2023May 3, 2023

Tribes and museums are grappling with the dilemma of sacred Indigenous objects and remains contaminated by toxic pesticides and preservatives.

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500+ US Museums Will Be Free on September 17

by Sarah Rose Sharp September 15, 2022September 15, 2022

Museum Day 2022 is a chance to get out there and show the special or weird institution in your state that you care — for free.

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The Smithsonian Will Return 29 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria

Avatar photo by Jasmine Liu June 16, 2022June 16, 2022

Provenance research is still being conducted on the ten remaining bronzes in the collection.

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Smithsonian Adopts Landmark Policy on Ethical Restitution

Avatar photo by Jasmine Liu May 4, 2022May 5, 2022

Previously, the Smithsonian held that its museums were entitled to retain an artifact so long as its provenance rested on solid legal ground.

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Smithsonian Announces Landmark Decision to Repatriate Benin Bronzes

by Cassie Packard March 9, 2022March 9, 2022

The institution says it will return most of the 39 artifacts in its collection to Nigeria for eventual display at the Benin City National Museum.

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Smithsonian to Exhibit 120 3D-printed Statues of Women in Sciences

Avatar photo by Jasmine Liu February 14, 2022February 15, 2022

It will be the “largest collection of statues of women ever assembled together,” the institution said.

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Portraits of Anthony Fauci and Ava DuVernay Will Hang in the Smithsonian

Avatar photo by Jasmine Liu January 26, 2022January 26, 2022

Their portraits will be included along with those of Venus and Serena Williams, José Andrés, Clive Davis, and Marian Wright Edelman.

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