Art
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.
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Jewish Groups Call for Gaza Ceasefire in White House Protest
Photographers captured the massive gathering in Washington, DC, as Israel continues its deadly retaliation on Palestinians following Hamas’s attack.
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11 Art Shows to See in Washington, DC, This Fall
Simone Leigh, Maremi Andreozzi, and a Native art show curated by Jaune Quick-to-See Smith are among this season’s major highlights.
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DC’s National Cathedral Unveils Kerry James Marshall Stained-Glass Windows
Titled Now and Forever, the new designs honor the ongoing pursuit for racial equality in a country built on systemic oppression.
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Smithsonian American Art Museum Reopens Modern and Contemporary Galleries With a New Installation
New acquisitions and visitor favorites at SAAM examine the explosion of possibility in US art between the 1940s and today.