Inside the textile workshop where the past comes to life A new exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum brings together the Black Modernist painter’s most famous series for the first ...

Sir Isaac Julien’s moving image installation interweaves period reenactments across five screens to create a vivid picture of nineteenth-century activist, writer, orator, and philosopher Frederick ...

The institution not only houses the portraits of U.S. presidents, but a wide range of other famous Americans and works by ...

Explore America and discover people, places, art, history, and other items related to California in the Smithsonian's digitized collections ... and explore the lives of famous Californians, ranging ...