On Wednesday, March 26, the Smithsonian American Women's History Museum and the U.S. Mint are introducing the latest quarter ...

WTOP gets a look at how a “fossil preparator” uncovers the past at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in D.C.

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Wayne Higby, director of the Alfred Ceramic Art Museum and a longtime ceramic artist and educator, will receive the Smithsonian Visionary Award for ...

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President Donald Trump is taking aim at a nonpartisan Washington think tank in his drive to downsize the federal bureaucracy.

Artist Alex Katz left something behind after his recent exhibition at the Butler Institute of American Art. “Collaborations with Poets,” an exhibition by the 97-year-old artist, was shown last fall at ...

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Ameya Okamoto, Santana Walker, and Celeste Hampton—part of the Smithsonian's Nail Art Project. Photos courtesy of the ...