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West Pier V, 2006, Fiona Tan.

Exploring the Video Art of Fiona Tan

Take a tour of the contemporary artist’s innovative work in a new exhibit at the Sackler Gallery

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John Lennon’s First Album

The famed Beatle was also a stamp collector

John Roberts Poinsett (1779-1851)

How Joel Poinsett, the Namesake for the Poinsettia, Played a Role in Creating the Smithsonian

As a major scientific scholar in 19th-century America, the botanist and statesman was the first to argue the Smithsonian should be a national museum

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