Edmonia Lewis’s marble figures echo neoclassical ideals but recast narratives around subjects including emancipation and ...

Tom Crouch, a historian of more than 40 years for the Smithsonian Institution, offered listeners insight into the origins of its establishment during a virtual webinar on Tuesday. The Library Speakers ...

On a Monday afternoon this winter, 64-year-old historian James Millward climbed the steps of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery with a “little stack of handouts, like a good professor,” and ...

A Marco Island attraction has been chosen as among the best in America. USA Today has named the Marco Island Historical ...

By Robert Hill Artist Nick Cave is presenting his new body of artwork titled "Mammoth" at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C. The exhibition opened Feb. 13 ...

The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden will loan scores of modern and contemporary masterworks in storage to museums in 50 states. By Graham Bowley With its recognizable Brutalist-doughnut ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art is returning to the Indian government three bronzes, museum leaders told The Washington Post, after extensive provenance research indicated that the ...

The Smithsonian Institution on Tuesday submitted documents to the Trump administration including digital photographs of labels, placards and other texts on display in its museums in response to a ...

“The object of the Museum is to acquire power,” announces a crusty old archaeologist in Penelope Fitzgerald’s 1977 satire, The Golden Child. It isn’t a goal he respects. He wants the museum where he’s ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

WASHINGTON — In 2020, Congress greenlit a bipartisan plan to build a women’s history museum in the nation’s capital — an effort that has drawn widespread bipartisan support and raised tens of millions ...

Director Lonnie Bunch said the institution is committed to being "transparent and open," turning over documents for a mandated content review. Smithsonian's Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art ...