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Q&A: Meet Kim Vandenbroucke, Toy Designer and Innovator

Sculptor Alexander Calder is perhaps best known as the inventor of the mobile. View Portrait of the Arist as a Young Man and more at the Portrait Gallery.

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Wednesday Roundup- Making you Smarter: Ask an Expert, Mexico via Airmail, Space Math @ NASA, Harlem Renaissance artists

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Ella Jenkins Releases Her Latest Kid’s Album, “A Life in Song”

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New IMAX film, Arabia 3D, Opens Friday at Natural History

Happy Birthday, Susan B. Anthony

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Tips From A Smithsonian Gardener for Creating a Beautiful Valentine’s Day Arrangement

Eight steps from the horticulturalist Melanie Pyle for a bouquet that will last long past the lover’s holiday

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Weekend Events: Celebrating Chocolate, Make Your Own Valentines and Persian Cinema

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Wednesday Roundup- Renaissance Man, Paper Planes and Artist Interviews

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Events: Freedom Riders, Woo at the Zoo, American Indian Filmmaking and More

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UPDATED: Fire in the Natural History Museum’s Mechanical Building Under Control; Museum Is Open

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A Closer Look at Cairo in African Art Film Screening

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Found: Punxsutawney Phil in the Nation’s Attic

A 1976 black and white photo captures the bronze scupture of everyone’s favorite groundhog by artist Jimilu Mason

Visitors to the National Zoo might glimpse one or more of the seven lion cubs born there in August and September.

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Events: African Cinema, FONZ Photo Club, Conservation Clinics and More

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Blackbird Deaths Explained: Smithsonian Bird Curator Weighs In

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“Orchids: A View from the East” Opens This Weekend at Natural History

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Tomorrow, Don’t Miss “Study the Land”

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Weekend Events: Painting, Woodworking and a Dance Party

Another Candle on Cindy Sherman’s Cake

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