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Nancy Yao Will Not Lead Women's History Museum
Yao has “withdrawn” from her role as director of the new Smithsonian museum amid an investigation of her conduct as the former leader of New York’s Museum of Chinese in America.
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Smithsonian American Art Museum Presents Musical Thinking: New Video Art and Sonic Strategies
This new exhibition at SAAM explores the powerful resonances between video art and popular music.
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Black Sculptor Littleton Alston Makes History at the US Capitol
Alston’s statue of author Willa Cather is the first by a Black artist in the collection.
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Photographer Frank Stewart Gets His First Museum Retrospective
Ahead of the exhibition, Hyperallergic spoke to the artist about his images of jazz musicians and everyday Black individuals in moments of closeness and stillness.
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Nancy Yao's Role at Smithsonian Stalled As Review Continues
The American Women’s History Museum is awaiting the findings of an investigation into allegations against Yao.
Art
Can We Even See the Night Sky Anymore?
Lights Out: Recovering Our Night Sky at the National Museum of Natural History is a call to action to mitigate the impact of light pollution.
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Climate Protesters Target Degas Sculpture at National Gallery of Art
Two activists smeared the sculpture’s case and pedestal with red and black paint.
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Rare 19th-Century Silhouette Album’s Secrets Unlocked
Traveling portrait artist William Bache’s album depicts famous figures like Thomas Jefferson as well as people whose identity was previously unknown.
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Smithsonian to House Repatriated Yemeni Artifacts
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.
Art
Seven Stamps to Inspire Letter-Writing
USPS Director of Stamp Services William Gicker shares a selection of standouts over the years.
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Native Artist’s Work Enters the National Gallery Collection
“Untitled” (1961) by George Morrison is the first work by a Native American artist to join the museum’s Abstract Expressionist collection.
Art
How Leonardo’s “Monstrous” Drawings Inspired Modern Caricature
"Grotesque Head of an Old Woman," recently acquired by the National Gallery of Art, is one of several studies by Leonardo exploring exaggerated facial expression.