Fine Arts

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Barack Obama is the Man of the Moment at the Portrait Gallery

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Smithsonian Events Week of 12/15-21

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Smithsonian Weekend Events December 12-14

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Founder of the National Museum of African Art Dies

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Calling All Trophy Holders: Artist Wants Yours

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Smithsonian Events Week of December 8-14

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Smithsonian Says Goodbye to Odetta

A look back on the performer's life

A crocheted coral reef

Smithsonian Events Week of 12/1-7

John White likely did this study of a male Atlantic loggerhead on a stop in the West Indies en route to "Virginia" in 1585. "Their heads, feet, and tails look very ugly, like those of a venomous serpent," wrote Thomas Harriot, the expedition's scientist, of New World tortoises. "Nevertheless they are very good to eat, as are their eggs."

Sketching the Earliest Views of the New World

The watercolors that John White produced in 1585 gave England its first startling glimpse of America

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Sneak Peek at the film Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian

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What's Cooking: Turkeys at the Smithsonian

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DIY Cartoons on a Budget

The latest installment of the Hirshorn's Art Lab

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To Be A Successful Art Collector

39 highly conceptual paintings, sculptures, wall drawings, installations and films

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Fake Radio War Stirs Terror Through US: Orson Welles' War of the Worlds turns 70

Seventy years ago, Orson Welles whipped millions of Americans into a martian-crazed panic with a radio play adaptation of H.G. Welles' War of the Worlds

The Whole Gory Story: Vampires on Film

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The Sound of Silent Film: The Devil's Music Ensemble and Red Heroine at the Freer

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Georgia O'Keeffe Confirmed You as a Friend on Facebook

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On the Mall: Sipping Pinotage at the National Museum of African Art

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Bill Viola: The Mind's Eye

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Recent History: Michael Phelps at the Portrait Gallery

One of the heroes of the 2008 Olympic Games now hangs from the wall of the National Portrait Gallery

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