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Sonic Blossom /2013–present / Lee Mingwei / Ongoing participatory performance installation with chair, music stand, costume, and spontaneous song / Installation view at “Lee Mingwei: Sonic Blossom,” The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2015 /Photo: Anita Kan.

Lee Mingwei on Music and Sonic Blossom

In anticipation of the National Portrait Gallery’s presentation of IDENTIFY: Sonic Blossom by Lee Mingwei, the artist discusses the role of music in his practice with the Portrait Gallery’s associate curator of photographs, Leslie Ureña.

Promotional image, The Stormy Man, directed by Umetsugu Inoue, Image © 1957 Nikkatsu

Japan, Jazz, and Movies at the Freer|Sackler in April

Pandereta (Plena Drum), Puerto Rico, 20th Century Division of Home and Community Life, National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center, Gift of Teodoro Vidal

Reflections on the Puerto Rican Plena, Post-Hurricane Maria

Harper's Bazaar celebrated the centennial of George Washington's 1789 inauguration with a cover featuring the first president dancing the minuet at his inaugural ball.

Music at the White House: From the 18th to the 21st Centuries

Trumpet owned by Louis Armstrong, 1946, Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture

Louis Armstrong: The First Great Jazz Soloist

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A Towering Figure in Music: Pete Seeger's Centennial

Barrier-Breaking Opera Singer, Marian Anderson, Featured by National Portrait Gallery

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