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Country artist Victoria Blackie (Navajo)

Victoria Blackie Brings Some Country to NMAI

Catch up-and-coming Navajo country artist Victoria Blackie this Saturday, June 11, outside of NMAI

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Bluebrain’s Soundtrack for the National Mall

DC electro-pop duo Bluebrain have released a location-aware album app that serves as a soundtrack for the National Mall

Wrap Your Mind Around African Headwrapping at Africa Underground

Experience the flavors and traditions of West Africa and the Caribbean tonight at the National Museum of African Art’s Africa Underground event

Evalyn McLean (c. 1914) wearing the Hope Diamond

Don’t You Wish You Could Wear the Hope Diamond?

How did such a huge rock come to be in the possession of such a party girl like Evalyn McLean

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Who Had the Best Civil War Facial Hair?

Browse these portraits of officers with great facial hair courtesy of the Library of Congress and then vote for your favorite

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Meet TOPGUN Radar Intercept Officer David “Bio” Baranek

It’s difficult to hear the phrase “TOPGUN” and not immediately have F-14 Tomcats zooming around in your brain against a rocking Kenny Loggins soundtrack

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Happy Birthday, Billie!

It’s fitting that legendary jazz songstress-extraordinaire Billie Holiday’s birthday today falls during Smithsonian’s Jazz Appreciation Month

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Getting Negative With Edward Curtis

It’s extremely rare to find negatives of Edward Sheriff Curtis, the iconic photographer of Native American life and the Old West

In April of 1971, at the invitation of the Chinese government, a nine-person United States table tennis team visited China for a series of exhibition matches.

Connie Sweeris, Ping-Pong Diplomat

A 1971 table tennis competition between the U.S. and China laid the groundwork for a foreign relations breakthrough

Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt, better known as Semiconductor, are developing a multimedia piece about volcanologists.

Semiconductor on Volcanic Inspiration

The British performance artists discuss how their research on volcanoes will inform their newest works

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