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10 Exhibitions to Visit in Washington, DC, This Summer
Lose yourself and find hope in women and queer-led shows in the capital this season.
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A Giant IUD Lands in DC as Senate Blocks Contraception Access Bill
The lavender inflatable is a visual reminder of what's at stake in the US as legislation protecting access to contraceptives is stalled in Congress.
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National Museum of American History Evacuates Staff After Bomb Threat
There were no injuries or damages reported.
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National Gallery of Art Names Its First-Ever Curator of Latinx Art
Natalia Ángeles Vieyra will develop the museum’s existing collections of Latinx art through new acquisitions, scholarship, exhibitions, and public programming.
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Activists Create Life-Sized Cyanotype in Trans Solidarity Action
Artist Cassils led “Etched in Light,” a participatory visual art and sonic performance in Washington, DC this weekend.
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National Gallery of Art Acquires Paintings by Women of the Boston School
The works by Mary Bradish Titcomb and Elizabeth Okie Paxton show how women artists inserted subtle agency in scenes of seemingly ordinary domesticity.
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Museum of the Bible Launches “New Testament Experience”
The controversial Washington, DC, institution’s hot new attraction will have you back for a second coming.
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After Controversy, Smithsonian Names Director of Women's History Museum
Elizabeth C. Babcock will be the museum’s first director after the initial appointee, Nancy Yao, withdrew amid an investigation into allegations.
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Georges Adéagbo Channels a Humanized Abraham Lincoln
Adéagbo teases out the exploitative and exhibitionist currents in aesthetic traditions, yet his world-making reclaims the emancipatory values of creative expression.
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The Divine Dissatisfaction of Music
Mariam Ghani and Erin Ellen Kelly’s Musical Thinking at the Smithsonian American Art Museum is alive with pathos.
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The DC Art Gallery Operating From a Freight Elevator
Housed in a working elevator, Freight Gallery opens roughly once a month for just two hours.
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DC’s New Feminist Monument Barks Up the Wrong Tree
Photos show a temporary sculpture unveiled on the National Mall that leaves a lot to be desired.