Opal Lee by Sedrick Huckaby, oil on canvas, 2023. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; acquired through the generosity of Sasha and Edward P. Bass. Copyright 2023 Sedrick Huckaby.
Embossed gold jar (detail), Ōnuma Chihiro (b. 1950), Japan, Shōwa era, 1988, hammered copper with amalgam gilding (kinkeshi), National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, Bequest of Shirley Z. Johnson, S2022.8.37a–c Copyright Ōnuma Chihiro.
Left: John Singer Sargent, “Mrs. Kate A. Moore,” 1884. Oil on canvas; 71 5/8 x 45 3/4 in. (181.9 x 116.2 cm). Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1972 (72.257). Photo: Lee Stalsworth.
Right: Amoako Boafo, “Cobalt Blue Dress,” 2020. Oil on canvas; 78 3/8 x 60 1/2 in. (199.1 x 153.7 cm). Gift of Sandra and Howard Hoffen, 2022 (2022.016). Photo: Rob Blunt.
Arcadia, California. Persons of Japanese ancestry arrive at the Santa Anita Assembly center from San Pedro, California. Evacuees lived at this center located at the former Santa Anita racetrack before being moved inland to relocation centers, April 5, 1942.
The public is invited to help name two cotton-top tamarin sisters at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute. Image: Chelia Chong, Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute.
The Film—Which Will Have Its World Premiere at the 2024 Berlin International Film Festival—Is Inspired by Xuanzang, the Seventh-Century Monk Who Walked From China to India
Clark Gable and Joan Crawford by George Hurrell, gelatin silver print, 1936. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; acquired in part through the generosity of an anonymous donor.
"Sewing a fine seam—finishing touches are applied to one section of the new spacesuit for NASA's Apollo lunar missions on this long-arm sewing machine, built specially for manufacturing the spacesuits." Hazel Fellows, seated, machine-sewing pieces of an Apollo A7L spacesuit on the production line at International Latex Corporation (ILC), Federica (Dover), Delaware; released Aug. 9, 1968. Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum.
Perspective view of Lucus Planum part of the Medusae Fossae Formation, a series of thick deposits found along the highland-lowland dichotomy boundary on Mars. The deposit shown here in this false color, Context Camera (CTX) mosaic, is several kilometers thick.
Credit: Caltech/JPL Global CTX Mosaic of Mars/Smithsonian Institution.
