Artist's rendering depicts the new Discovering Our Universe Gallery featuring lenses at the center to augment the starry sky and the Bruce Telescope at rear.
“Flower Market: Dieppe,” James McNeill Whistler, 1880s, Watercolor on paper, H x W: 12.8 x 21 cm (5 1/16 x 8 1/4 in), Credit: James McNeill Whistler/Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.: Gift of Charles Lang Freer, F1907.171a-b
Audrey Flack, Queen, 1976, acrylic on canvas, 80 × 80 in. (203.2 × 203.2 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Louis K. and Susan P. Meisel, 2022.11.5
Congressional Medal for the Jan. 6 Defenders, Photographs, Law Enforcement Gear and Personal Effects Added to National Museum of American History’s Collections
One of a pair of six-panel screens: Maple leaves on a stream (front); mountain views (reverse), Ikeda Koson, Edo period, 1856-1858, Japan, Screens (six-panel), Ink and color on gilded paper; ink on paper, H x W (image, each screen): 66.3 × 343.2 cm (65 1/2 × 135 1/8 in) Credit: Ikeda Koson/Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.: Purchase—Harold P. Stern Memorial Fund and funds provided by the Friends of the Freer and Sackler Galleries in appreciation of James W. Lintott and his exemplary service to the galleries as chair of the Board of Trustees (2011-2015), F2014.7.1-2
Anna L. Fisher, Kathryn D. Sullivan and Rhea Seddon taking a break from various training exercises at a three-day water-survival school held near Homestead Air Force Base in Florida. Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum.
Human-harvested shellfish from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History research collections. (Credit: Brittany M. Hance and James D. Tiller, Smithsonian)
As part of the museum’s longstanding commitment to and collaboration with institutions of higher learning on the continent, more than 100 copies of the Heroes catalog will be donated to universities and art institutions across Africa.
“Belated Bonsal,” Park Chan-kyong, 2019, HD film, 5.1 channel sound, 55 min, Credit: Copyright Park Chan-kyong /
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korean KCH9852-HDR
Exhibition Is First Solo Presentation of the Korean Artist’s Work in a Major US Institution and Inaugurates the Museum’s New Modern and Contemporary Galleries
Clockwise, from upper right: Ruth Fine (photo by Frank Stewart); Keith Haring Foundation logo, courtesy Keith Haring Foundation; Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (photo by Grace Roswell)
Angel Rodríguez-Díaz, “The Protagonist of an Endless Story,” 1993, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum. Museum purchase made possible in part by the Smithsonian Latino Initiatives Pool and the Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program, 1996.19. Copyright 1993, Angel Rodriguez-Diaz.
