Smithsonian Institution

LOOK: Space Shuttle To Fly Low Over Nation's Capital

Posted 04.16.2012

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WASHINGTON -- On Tuesday, be sure to look up for a rare and wonderful air show. The Space Shuttle Discovery is expected to fly over landmarks in th...

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Smithsonian's New Exhibit Focuses On Immigration

AP | BRETT ZONGKER | Posted 04.12.2012

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WASHINGTON — Dorothy's ruby slippers from "The Wizard of Oz" have a new home with a diverse set of artifacts in a new timeline of American histo...

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Portrait Gallery Opens Civil War Portraits

AP | Posted 03.30.2012

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WASHINGTON -- The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery is opening two new exhibits that retrace the history of the Civil War, including a display o...

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WATCH: 'SONG 1' Opens At The Hirshhorn, 'The Bubble' Gets Its Name

Posted 03.23.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Multimedia artist Doug Aitken's "SONG 1" was officially inaugurated on Thursday night literally wrapping the Hirshhorn Museum in moving ...

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LOOK: Museum Exterior Wrapped In Hi-Def Video Images

Posted 03.22.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Multimedia artist Doug Aitken's "SONG 1" will literally wrap the Hirshhorn Museum in moving images beginning Thursday night. The art...

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Now Open At SAAM : 'Art of Video Games'

The Huffington Post | Megan Arellano | Posted 03.16.2012

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WASHINGTON -- "It's not only one of the most expressive art forms we have," said Chris Melissinos, curator of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's ne...

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Video Games Redefined As An Art Form

Posted 03.15.2012

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When we typically think of video games we often envision a few teenage boys screaming at the TV amid a cloud of testosterone and the scent of recently...

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More Than the Art of Video Games

Michael Gallagher | Posted 05.15.2012

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Michael Gallagher

Video games have embedded themselves into our culture. And the future of the industry depends on the innovators who are drawn to it.

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Smithsonian Groundbreaking Snubs Obama: Were They Low on Shovels? (Updated)

Dee Evans | Posted 04.23.2012

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Dee Evans

It would be interesting to know what the thought process was behind the decision not to have the first black president participate in the shovel part of the ceremony for the first national museum dedicated to African American history; heck, Obama is African American history!

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Smithsonian Black History Museum Groundbreaking Kicks Off

AP | By BRETT ZONGKER | Posted 04.23.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Frederick Douglass was black and that was enough for the Smithsonian Institution to bar the famed abolitionist from speaking at a lectur...

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Smithsonian Honors Eastwood, Opens Theater On Mall

AP | BRETT ZONGKER | Posted 04.02.2012

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WASHINGTON — Clint Eastwood helped open a new movie theater on the National Mall Wednesday evening and the Smithsonian Institution honored the a...

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New Smithsonian Exhibit Explores Jefferson's Slave Ownership

AP | BRETT ZONGKER | Posted 03.26.2012

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WASHINGTON — Thomas Jefferson wrote "all men are created equal" to declare U.S. independence from Britain, yet he was also a lifelong slave owne...

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Space Shuttle Discovery Headed To The Smithsonian

AP | Posted 03.25.2012

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WASHINGTON — The Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum is preparing to welcome the space shuttle Discovery into its collection. Smithsoni...

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Smithsonian Details 'Art Of Video Games' Exhibit

AP | Posted 03.19.2012

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WASHINGTON — The Smithsonian American Art Museum is announcing details of its first major exhibit exploring the art and evolution of video games...

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Work By China's Ai Weiwei Coming To Smithsonian

AP | Posted 01.10.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Sculptures by an outspoken Chinese artist are going on display at Smithsonian museums in Washington. Chinese artist Ai Weiwei (EYE' WAY...

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Major Museums And Organizations Collect Materials Produced By Occupy Movement

AP/The Huffington Post | By CRISTIAN SALAZAR and RANDY HERSCHAFT | Posted 12.24.2011

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By CRISTIAN SALAZAR AND RANDY HERSCHAFT, The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) -- Occupy Wall Street may still be working to shake the notion it repre...

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Smithsonian To See $52 Million Increase From Congress

AP | BRETT ZONGKER | Posted 02.19.2012

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WASHINGTON — The Smithsonian Institution is receiving a $52 million increase in funding from Congress for 2012, with the increase primarily devo...

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National Zoo Gets Big Panda Donation (PHOTOS)

The Huffington Post | Posted 12.19.2011

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WASHINGTON -- There's great news for panda fans: The Washington Post reports that the National Zoo's panda reproduction program will be receiving a $4...

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Smithsonian Digs Out Alexander Graham Bell Recordings From 1880s (PHOTOS)

AP | BRETT ZONGKER | Posted 02.12.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Alexander Graham Bell foresaw many things, including that people could someday talk over a telephone. Yet the inventor certainly never c...

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Smithsonian Hosts 'The Black List' Portraits At National Portrait Gallery

AP | By BRETT ZONGKER | Posted 12.27.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Whoopi Goldberg, John Legend, Sean Combs and Serena Williams now have a place in the National Portrait Gallery in a new show featuring l...

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Walking on the National Mall

Zoe P. Strassfield | Posted 10.11.2011

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Zoe P. Strassfield

Early on during my time in DC, I found a book about the gardens of the various Smithsonian museums on sale somewhere.

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US Panel Calls For Smithsonian Latino Museum

AP | BRETT ZONGKER | Posted 07.04.2011

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WASHINGTON -- A federal commission is calling for a national museum devoted to American Latino history and culture to be built next to the Capitol as ...

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NASA Reveals Final Stop For Space Shuttle

AP | MIKE SCHNEIDER | Posted 06.13.2011

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- On a memorable day in space history, NASA began its goodbyes to the shuttle program Tuesday, announcing the aged spacecraft wi...

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"Hide/Seek" Fallout: Interference Institutionalized at the Smithsonian

Lee Rosenbaum | Posted 05.25.2011

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Lee Rosenbaum

If it follows the advice of a committee, Smithsonian museums will be buried under a new layer of procedural requirements for public input whenever a cautious curator flags a proposed exhibition as "sensitive."

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'Hide/Seek' Interview: Smithsonian Secretary Clough 'Can Do the Math' (But Miscalculates)

Lee Rosenbaum | Posted 05.25.2011

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Lee Rosenbaum

How did Clough analyze the potential damage from the political, cultural and religious firestorm that erupted over his order to remove one work from the National Portrait Gallery's provocative, gay-themed "Hide/Seek" exhibition?

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