News
The Commission recently told its grantees that it could terminate any funding interpreted as "lewd, lascivious, vulgar, overtly political, and/or excessively violent." The ACLU may sue on First Amendment grounds if the language is not repealed.
Announcement
Japan Modern: Photography from the Gloria Katz and Willard Huyck Collection and Japan Modern: Prints in the Age of Photography are on view at the Freer|Sackler through January 21.
News
This week the Corcoran's board announced that over 99% of the works from the gallery's collection will stay in DC, with the vast majority going to the museum at American University.
Art
The Library of Congress selected examples from its collection of 10,000 courtroom drawings to show how artists are essential to public understanding of American trials.
In Brief
The racist symbol was found hanging from a lamppost outside the institution on the National Mall.
Art
In the mid-19th century, Philadelphia physician Thomas Story Kirkbride incorporated magic lantern slides into his "moral treatment" regimen at the Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane.
Art
The National Building Museum's recently acquired collection of 4,500 paper models shows an interpretation of the world in miniature, from black-and-white shtetls to nuclear power plants.
Art
An exhibition at the National Building Museum explores St. Elizabeths in Washington, DC, and the history of mental health architecture in the United States.
Art
Recent disputes over a painting by an 18-year-old and another from the 19th century illustrate art's ability to speak truth to power, but also to become a pawn in politicians' power games.
Art
Whitfield Lovell reinterprets found imagery and references evocative cultural touchstones to add further layers and textures to his drawings and mixed media installations.
Interview
After being dragged into one of 2016's strangest news stories over a mural he made six years ago, Arrington de Dionyso took a public stand against far-right extremists' mob censorship.
Interview
The Native American performance artist DeLesslin George-Warren is giving walking tours of the National Portrait Gallery's hall of presidential portraits with a focus on the history of indigenous American populations.