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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The panel talk on the controversial practice spilled over in the Twittersphere as people talked about the history of racist mascots and what can be done
February 07, 2013
| By Leah Binkovitz
The artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center celebrates the jazz legend who won affection at home and abroad
February 07, 2013
| By Joann Stevens
Can you tell the difference between a replica and the real thing? Does it matter? A curator at Natural History talks about copies, 3-D printing and museums
February 27, 2013
| By Nick Pyenson
A New Welcome Center Offers A Sneak Peek at the New Museum
February 06, 2013
| By Paul Bisceglio
Are teams like the Indians, the Braves and the Redskins reflecting racial stereotypes?
February 06, 2013
| By Leah Binkovitz
Some 5,000 items filled Paul Singer's apartment, now 63 go on display
February 05, 2013
| By Leah Binkovitz
A homesteading settlement founded out of reach of Jim Crow is now a ghost town, but postal records live on to tell its story
February 04, 2013
| By Leah Binkovitz
Sometimes treated as curiosities at the time, black men and women fighting for the Union and organizing for change altered the course of history
February 01, 2013
| By Leah Binkovitz
A traveling exhibit ditches the trucks and goes digital to teach environmentally-friendly ways of living
January 30, 2013
| By Paul Bisceglio
Take a tour of San Francisco and Baltimore with historical photographs from the collections
January 29, 2013
| By Leah Binkovitz
March 2013 | By Paul Bisceglio
On this day in 1956, Elvis appeared on the CBS program, The Stage Show, to skeptical critics and enthused audiences
January 28, 2013
| By Leah Binkovitz
Smithsonian museums in the Washington, D.C. area as well as the National Zoo will open at noon Monday, due to inclement weather
January 28, 2013
| By Leah Binkovitz
Preview some of the top-notch shows—on anatomy, bioluminescence, water tanks and more—slated for the next year
December 28, 2012
| By Megan Gambino
Known for being particularly eye-catching, the orchids of Latin America are part of religious, cultural and even culinary life in the region
January 25, 2013
| By Leah Binkovitz
"A Day at the Museum" examines documents that tell the stories of artists' trips to museums over the past two centuries
January 25, 2013
| By Paul Bisceglio
From Iraq to Libya, Corine Wegener works to preserve priceless objects of human history
January 24, 2013
| By Leah Binkovitz
You asked? We answered
February 2013
| By Smithsonian magazine
What would otherwise be a local-interest story became a snapshot of history integral to the American experience
February 2013
| By Joseph Stromberg
Artists are making sweet music using history and museum collections as inspiration
February 25, 2013
| By Joann Stevens
For the 40th anniversary of the Oscars that made Cabaret a classic, actor Joel Grey stops by the Smithsonian for a special donation and screening
February 22, 2013
| By Amy Henderson
Smithsonian Secretary Wayne Clough looks at how our scientists are studying our changing climate
February 2013
| By G. Wayne Clough, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
February 2013 | By Leah Binkovitz
The Flyknit racer is currently in the collections of the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
February 2013
| By Leah Binkovitz
Enslaved at age 8, America's first black woman poet won her freedom with verse
February 13, 2013
| By David C. Ward
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