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Bill Viola: The Mind’s Eye

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Sleep Over Party at the Zoo

Are you a Washingtonian who likes to camp? Try urban camping in the mock wild, at Smithsonian’s National Zoo

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Newcomers

Two new key additions to our staff

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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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Fear and Loathing in Hong Kong: the Freer Screens Classic Foreign Films

Another warm Washington DC summer, another Made in Hong Kong Film Festival, the Freer Gallery’s 13th annual celebration of Hong Kong

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Call the Queen: It’s Teatime at the Freer

Drinking tea is a serious business

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At the National Zoo, Guess Who

We were born on July 17th at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo

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The Cola Wars. Smear Campaigns in Space?

Sending astronauts into space takes heaps of cash, hours of political wrangling and the kind of engineering prowess that would make Newton weep

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A New Exhibition Gets All The Dirt on Soil

I don’t know how dirt got its bad reputation. The word is a catch-all for every vile behavior humankind can muster…

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Fingers Crossed. A Panda Preggers at the National Zoo???!

On March 20, Mei was anesthetized and artificially inseminated. Since then, the public has waited anxiously for the pitter patter of panda paws

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