A crowd watching a lion dancer perform outside the museum during the 2023 Lunar New Year Festival.
Credit: National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Pinback button memorial depicting Martin Luther King Jr. ca. 1968.
Credit: Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, gift of Peggy Boyd Petrey.
The reconstructed woolly dog shown at scale with Arctic dogs and spitz breeds in the background to compare scale and appearance; the portrayal does not imply a genetic relationship. Credit: Karen Carr.
Credit: Oprah Winfrey by Shawn Michael Warren, oil on linen, 2023. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. Acquired through the generosity of Tommie L. Pegues and Donald A. Capoccia; Taylor and Wemimo Abbey; Anonymous; Deon Jones and Cameron J. Ross; Lisa Opoku and Loki Muthu; Mack Wilbourn; Charles Young and Andrea Wishom Young.
Rashid Johnson, “Bruise Painting ‘Message to Our Folks,’”2023. Copyright Rashid Johnson.
Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photograph by Josh Weilepp/NMAAHC.
Pinback button celebrating the seven principles of Kwanzaa.
Credit: Collection of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture
From left to right: Glenn Kiser- Director, Dolby Institute; Josh Singer (Co-Writer- Maestro); Dagmar Dolby; Michelle Tesoro (Editor- Maestro); Natasha Dolby; Mark Bridges (Costume Designer- Maestro); David Dolby; and Anthea M. Hartig.
Sept. 23, 2023. Giant panda Xiao Qi Ji enjoys a fruitsicle cake during the Panda Palooza: A Final Farewell celebration at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute.
Photo credit: Skip Brown, Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute
Installation view, Isaac Julien: “Lessons of the Hour,” SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Sept. 24–Dec. 15, 2019. Copyright Isaac Julien, courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro. Image courtesy of SCAD.
