Amanda Gorman, the youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history, will deliver the opening keynote for the 2026 Smithsonian’s ...

Like mythological Greek gods of old, superheroes captivate the imaginations of people of all ages. Superman’s 1938 debut kicked off the golden age of comic books. Created by Jerry Siegel and Joe ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Art and Japan-based TOPPAN Inc. are partnering to advance the museum’s growing digitization efforts, starting with implementation of cutting-edge virtual- and ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art has renewed its memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the National Institute of Japanese Literature (NIJL), part of the National Institutes for the ...

The Smithsonian will debut “Smithsonian Dreams,” a large-scale, multisensory public art experience by Refik Anadol, internationally acclaimed media artist and director of Refik Anadol Studio, on the ...

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The Smithsonian's Feather Identification Lab work to save lives by preventing bird strikes and air disasters.

Until the Executive Order of June 24, 1912, neither the order of the stars nor the proportions of the flag was prescribed. Consequently, flags dating before this period sometimes show unusual ...

This exhibition looks closely at the interconnected web of artists, dealers, and collectors who helped shape the Freer Gallery of Art’s collection amid the shifting political and economic environment ...

It has long been recognized and documented that insects are the most diverse group of organisms, meaning that the numbers of species of insects are more than any other group. In the world, some 900 ...

This distinctive type of ceramic face vessel first appeared in the American South in the mid-1800s. Jugs such as these are attributed to a small number of black slaves working as potters in the ...