Curators' Corner
Gil Goldstein and Bobby McFerrin’s New Project at the Kennedy Center
Gil Goldstein lends an experienced hand to Bobby McFerrin's new concert series and recording project that honors familiar spirituals with a fresh new spirit
What the Great Gatsby Got Right about the Jazz Age
Curator Amy Henderson explores how the 1920s came alive in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel
Poetry Matters: In Baseball, No Poet Has Yet to Do the Game Justice
Smithsonian historian David Ward umpires the field of poetry, honoring the boys of spring, and calls a strike
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April showers bring May flowers. Or maybe, just mosquitoes. But the horticulture folks who bring you the Smithsonian gardens want you front and center tomorrow and Saturday (May 6 and 7). Bring your wellies and gloves to this year's Garden Fest for tips and techniques to make your flowers and veggi...
May 05, 2011
| By Madeline Andre
Today marks the 50th anniversary of the first American in space. At 9:37 AM on May 5, 1961, the Freedom 7 spacecraft, now a Smithsonian artifact, was launched from Cape Canaveral, lobbing Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard Jr. (1923-1998) to an altitude of 116.5 miles. Shepard tested out the spacecraf...
May 05, 2011
| By Arcynta Ali Childs
Dear Readers,As a service to you, we're putting this post up today so that you'll remember to call your mother on Sunday, or to get a card in the mail, ASAP. A simple collections search of artifacts at the Smithsonian can turn up moms on the order of magnitudes, or rather, moms as subjects or as ar...
May 04, 2011
| By Madeline Andre
There is much to celebrate in the month of May—Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, Mother's Day, as well as a number of anniversaries marking special events in our nation's history. On today, we turn our focus, slightly, from remembering the Civil War to acknowledging the civil rights movement i...
May 04, 2011
| By Arcynta Ali Childs
The Smithsonian's Alain Touwaide studies ancient books to identify medicines used thousands of years ago
May 2011
| By Megan Gambino
The Haitian revolutionary joins the Smithsonian Museum of African Art's collection
May 2011
| By Owen Edwards
Recently discovered photographs depict the aftermath of the devastating California earthquake in a new light
May 2011
| By Arcynta Ali Childs
May 2011 | By G. Wayne Clough
If you've had the occasion to visit the National Zoo lately, you might have noticed that something was missing. Not sure? Ok, I'll give you a hint. He's 27 feet long, was named after a dinosaur in the 1956 children's book The Enormous Egg, by Oliver Butterworth, later appeared in the 1967 NBC TV ad...
May 03, 2011
| By Arcynta Ali Childs
Coming of age in America means studying the Civil War, all through our school years we revisit the battles, the leaders, the soldiers, reexamining the strife that tore this nation apart for four long years beginning in 1861. We hear the stories of soldiers in battle and former slaves fighting for ...
May 03, 2011
| By Madeline Andre
As we continue our four-year-long coverage of the Civil War, highlighting the exhibitions and events around the Smithsonian Institution that commemorate the seminal moments of the war during this, its sesquicentennial, the ATM blog team focuses our attention today on the death of Col. Elmer E. Ells...
May 02, 2011
| By Arcynta Ali Childs
Monday, May 2 Written in BoneFamily-friendly and hands-on. Forensic anthropology is not just for scientists! Meet at Natural History in the exhibition, "Written in Bone: Forensic Files of the 17th-Century Chesapeake," and learn to use human bones to solve mysteries. In no time at all, be an expert ...
May 02, 2011
| By Michelle Strange
When "Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian" hits theaters on May 22, it will be the first time the interiors of the museum complex will be shown on the big screen. An equally significant date for the increasingly cool Smithsonian will take place on May 5, when a set of video games based o...
April 16, 2009
| By Joseph Caputo
Can you think of a witty caption for the above photograph? As the contest comes to a close, we've already received some entertaining submissions, like...."Nope, this one's not Walt Disney, either," by Jim.and"In his excitement at finding Curley’s shrunken head, he did not notice he had become surro...
April 13, 2009
| By Joseph Caputo
Christopher Mah provides interesting dinnertime conversation, if you’re eating starfish at least. The post-doctoral fellow at the Smithsonian’s Museum of Natural History may be the only person in the world who can name any sea star on sight. With just a low-resolution snapshot via iPhone, Mah can t...
April 13, 2009
| By Joseph Caputo
Monday, April 13: Easter Monday: Celebrating the African American FamilyEaster Monday has been a long standing multicultural tradition in Washington, DC—and why not celebrate at the National Zoo? The day is rife with food and activities, which include an Easter egg hunt, crafts, live musical entert...
April 13, 2009
| By Jesse Rhodes
Friday, April 10: Annual Bunny PartyIs your best friend a 6-foot 3 and one half inch rabbit? Are your tea parties never without a march hare in attendance? Or, do you just live in fear of the cotton-tailed creature living down the street? Spring is here, so come sing, dance, play and listen to stor...
April 10, 2009
| By Jesse Rhodes
If Georgia O’Keeffe and Ansel Adams had friended each other on Facebook, what would the two icons of 20th-century modern art have shared with each other?
After all, the pair were friends for more than 50 years. She went camping with him in Yosemite. He stopped by her New Mexico home for visits. An...
October 01, 2008
| By Beth Py-Lieberman
The seaweed may usually look greener on somebody else’s plate, but I’m unconvinced that 3-D movies are going to be better than 2-D, at least not anytime soon. Putting my technologically conservative notions to the test, I was invited to attend a screening of the new IMAX film Deep Sea 3-D.On enteri...
September 24, 2008
| By Jesse Rhodes
Voting starts today for the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum’s third annual People’s Design Award – a contest that asks the public to nominate and vote for an object or concept that constitutes good design.
So if there’s a product on the market that leaves you spellbound, a new building that...
September 22, 2008
| By Megan Gambino
EHow, a website that claims to teach anything, says that the first step in attending a silent auction is perusing the online catalog. Having scored a ticket to the National Museum of African Art’s first benefit gala (such are the perks of professional journalism), I downloaded the auction catalog...
September 19, 2008
| By Anika Gupta
Video artist Bill Viola dropped his notes on his way up to the podium last Wednesday night at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. With a shrug, he joked that his lecture—the pages now scrambled—would lack order. But the traditional organization one expects from a story or a narrative is decidedly...
September 16, 2008
| By Megan Gambino
I like to camp. But I’m living in DC, without a car to get me out to the Shenandoah on the weekends. And I’ve always wanted to go on a safari. But my pocket isn’t so deep. So I figured I’d try the next best thing—urban camping in the mock wild, at the Smithsonian National Zoo. Does that sound a bit...
September 11, 2008
| By Megan Gambino
This week, the Sackler begins its "Video Art from Asia" series with two short films by Chinese makers: Yang Fudong’s "Liu Lan" and Cao Fei and Ou Ning’s "San Yuan Li." Both films were made in 2003."Liu Lan" is a rustic love story. At the start, a man in an all-white suit meets his girlfriend by th...
September 09, 2008
| By Anika Gupta
Friday, June 4: 3-Day Ibero-American Guitar FestivalSponsored in part by the Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian and the Smithsonian Latino Center, the 4th annual Ibero-American Guitar Festival celebrates the musical traditions of Spain, Portugal and Latin America. Enjoy musical performances,...
June 04, 2010
| By Jesse Rhodes
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