Lunar New Year activities to ring in the Year of the Snake in the DC area
Lunar New Year is a 15-day holiday welcoming spring and celebrating the new year on the lunar calendar. This year, it begins on Wednesday, Jan. 29. In the Chinese zodiac, 2025 is the Year of the Snake ...
Hyperallergic2 小时
Smithsonian Institution to Shutter Diversity Offices
In a staff-wide email, the organization said it was complying with Trump’s executive order banning federally funded diversity ...
The Smithsonian will close its diversity office and freeze federal hiring
The Smithsonian Institution is closing its diversity office and freezing all federal hiring. The decision will affect dozens ...
Smithsonian Magazine22 天
The Roots of U.S. Work Culture—and Why the American Dream Is So Difficult to Achieve Today
To mark 99% Perspiration’s release on January 7, Smithsonian editor Jennie Rothenberg Gritz spoke to Chandler about the past, present and future of the American workplace. Read a condensed and ...
The Washington Post29 天
Sweeping SAAM exhibit explores race and power through sculpture
The Smithsonian American Art Museum’s “The Shape of Power: Stories of Race and American Sculpture” is a complex and eclectic exhibition, and one that includes multiple subordinate themes.
Smithsonian Magazine29 天
Eleven Fascinating Acquisitions That Joined the Smithsonian’s Vast Collections in 2024
Another of the three ceremonial double ikat textiles acquired by the Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art in 2024 Marty Kelly / Courtesy of Thomas Murray Master stamp forgers Jean de Sperati ...
Artnet29 天
How Native American Artists are Combatting Misrepresention with ‘Indigenous Joy’
The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art highlights its latest acquisitions of works by Native American artists in a new exhibition celebrating the intergenerational expressions of Indigenous ...