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Surprising Chocolate Facts, Just in Time for NMAI’s Power of Chocolate Festival
Attendees will have the opportunity to grind and sample their own chocolate beverages and learn about history and science behind the “food of the gods.”
The Hirshhorn Turns Labor Into Art with “Black Box: Ali Kazma”
Turkish video artist Ali Kazma captures the actions of a man who seems to be the most efficient stamper of paper ever at the Hirshhorn’s Black Box Theater
Q and A: Judy Blume
The children’s book author speaks about her career and what it means to write a “banned book”
Author Judy Blume to Speak at the Smithsonian
Blume will receive a John P. McGovern Award from Smithsonian Associates Monday evening at the Ripley Center
Volker Sattel’s Film Brings Nuclear Power Under Control at the Hirshhorn
Volker Sattel’s haunting film “Under Control” takes the viewer behind the scenes for a stylized look at day-to-day operations at nuclear power plants
October 31, 1926: Death Proves Inescapable for Even Houdini
Magician Harry Houdini, who could seemingly escape anything, couldn’t escape a punch to the gut and appendicitis
The List: Top Eleven Things to Do this Month at the Smithsonian After Work
Date night at the Smithsonian, grab your special someone and head out to these after-hours events
The Mickey Hart Collection in Rhythm with the World
Former Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart’s curates a 25-album series of world music for Smithsonian Folkways that drops next week
A “Genius Grant” for Silversmith Ubaldo Vitali
Silversmith Ubaldo Vitali, recently featured in a Renwick Gallery exhibition, was just awarded a “genius grant.”
“Exercise Your Mynd—BK Adams I Am Art” Brightens Up the Anacostia Museum
The boldly-colored paintings and sculptures of Washington D.C.’s own BK Adams enliven the museum’s main gallery
American Wonder Wild Bill Hickok Shot and Killed From Behind on This Day in History
Wild Bill dead of a gunshot wound to the head, see one of his guns at a new exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Belly Dancing After Dark at the Freer and Sackler Galleries
This Thursday evening, get your groove on at the Asian art museums annual celebration
Iron Chef-Style Showdown Sunday at the American Indian Museum
Mitsitam Cafe’s own Chef Richard Hetzler does battle against Chef Don McClellan (Cherokee) using ingredients of the Three Sisters–corn, beans and squash
Flip Nicklin, Whale Photographer Extraordinaire, Tells Tales at the Ripley Center
Flip Nicklin, one of the world’s leading whale photographers, shares stories from his career at the Ripley Center for a Smithsonian Associates event
Earth vs. the Flying Saucers @ the Hirshhorn
It seems as though the film might have been exhibiting camp tendencies back in 1956, too
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