The Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture were created by the Smithsonian American Art Museum to assist researchers in locating American paintings and sculptures for comparative study.

The Smithsonian Institution quietly removed the director of the Smithsonian American Art Museum this summer and placed her in another role, following years of complaints from staff about her ...

Photograph Study Collection, Smithsonian American Art Museum Diana (front view) sculpture / (photographer unknown) Smithsonian Libraries Welcome the caribou man / Tsonakwa and Yolaikia Photograph ...

(October 18, 2025, through August 30, 2026) “Grandma Moses: A Good Day’s Work” at the Smithsonian American Art Museum She didn’t begin painting in earnest until the age of 78. But when she ...

Ignacio Darnaude, in Out magazine, accuses the National Portrait Gallery of "queer erasure" over its display of a Felix ...

An executive order by Donald Trump prohibits all DEI programs at federal institutions. Some have already dismantled them.

The Smithsonian Institution is closing its diversity office and freezing all federal hiring. The decision will affect dozens ...

And, further, that they are core to our modern American identity ... has a presence in a real life Smithsonian museum is an amusing bit of life imitating art, as the very movie the shield is ...

A joint purchase by the Portrait Gallery and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, this five-screen video installation uses period reenactments to create a portrait of the activist, writer ...

Taylor The work, now on view at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, tells the story of two characters on the island—the last people alive in the world ...