Exhibitions
When “Danger” Is Art’s Middle Name
A new exhibit looks at the inspiration that comes from the clash of glory and catastrophe
A Major Retrospective of Photographer Irving Penn Includes Previously Unseen Works
At the Smithsonian American Art Museum, view works from the master photographer’s 70-year career
The Strange, Giant "Beach Animals" That Are About to Invade America's Shores
Artist Theo Jansen's sculptures first became hits on YouTube. Now they've reached the shores of New England
Running Shoes Date Back to the 1860s, and Other Revelations From the Brooklyn Museum's Sneaker Show
A show on sneaker culture at the Brooklyn Museum hypes its modern Nikes, but perhaps most fascinating are the historic kicks that started it all
The Evolution of Money, From Feathers to Credit Cards
Coin collectors, and trinket lovers welcome back the National Numismatic Collections to its splendid new gallery at the American History Museum
What it Took to Create the World’s First Gay Art Museum
Charles Leslie’s passionate half-century of homoerotic art collecting offers a mirror for the history of gay history itself
The World's Most Interesting (and Accessible) Library Collections
From the Magna Carta to Winnie the Pooh, what you can see at some of the world's great libraries
The Ridiculous World of Magna Carta Kitsch
Throughout the United Kingdom, retailers are going mad over an 800-year-old document
Designing Buildings For Hot Climates, Cold Ones and Everything in Between
A decade's worth of sustainable projects by Danish architect Bjarke Ingels and his firm, BIG, are now on display at the National Building Museum
Inside the Three-Decade Evolution of "Star Wars" Costumes
A Smithsonian traveling exhibition offers an unprecedented glimpse at costumes from a galaxy far, far away
Before Instagram, Memorializing Asia’s Most Traveled Roads
From Moroccan postcards to Japanese scrolls, the Sackler Gallery explores five centuries of travel around the Asian continent
The Threatened Birds in These Artworks Might One Day Go the Way of the Dodo
The Smithsonian American Art Museum's exhibition explores mankind's relationship to birds and the natural world
Unearthing America’s Lawrence of Arabia, Wendell Phillips
Phillips uncovered millennia-old treasures beneath Arabian sand, got rich from oil and died relatively unknown
Celebrating Pittsburgh, the City Behind Pro Football, Big Macs and the Polio Vaccine
The Pennsylvanian city had more lives than a cat and thrives as a hub of innovation
Capturing First Impressions of a City in Transition
William Greiner's photographs are on view at the Morris Museum of Art in Augusta, GA
What's In a Shoe? Japanese Artist Chiharu Shiota Investigates
An artist takes on the soul in the sole of your shoes in an exhibition at the Sackler Gallery of Art
Which General Was Better? Ulysses S. Grant or Robert E. Lee?
The historic rivalry between the South's polished general and the North's rough and rugged soldier is the subject of a new show at the Portrait Gallery
What's Up, Doc? Check Out the Work of Famed Animator Chuck Jones
As part of the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, Jones' work will travel to 13 locations through 2019
Surfers, Sunsets, and Dancing Girls: How Air Travel Came To Hawaii
“Hawaii by Air” opens today at the National Air and Space Museum, tracing the history of air travel to America’s “most exotic state.”
Relax Like You Are in 12th-Century China and Take in These Lush Landscape Paintings
When the Confucian elite got stressed, they'd stare at nature paintings to recharge and renew their souls
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