Artist Stephanie Syjuco will be the featured speaker at the Williams College Museum of Art's annual Plonsker Family Lecture ...

Vaquero, a larger-than-life sculpture by Luis Jiménez, which stands just outside an entrance to the Smithsonian American Art Museum, is impossible to miss. It depicts a colorful Mexican cowboy ...

The Smithsonian American Art Museum’s reimagined galleries for modern and contemporary art invite visitors to reconsider what American art is. PHOTO Albert Ting Melissa Ho remembers the moment she ...

Smithsonian American Art Museum / Gift of the Harmon Foundation The African American artist William H. Johnson (1901-1970) had been painting expressionist landscapes in Europe for more than a ...

Amy Sherald, who painted former First Lady Michelle Obama's portrait in 2018, has a major survey of her work opening this week at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.

Recent student research projects have addressed mail art ... at the National Museum of American History or the State Department's National Museum of American Diplomacy. Select projects can be found on ...

It’s officially spring break for thousands of kids in D.C., Maryland and Northern Virginia, and you don’t need to go on ...

In a letter to Vice President JD Vance, four U.S. representatives on a committee that oversees the cultural institution urged ...

They kicked me when I worked back here in Watsonville, they would kick the back of my legs and say stand up, don't sit down. If you're not standing, we're going to kick you stories untold ...

but the joys and culture of the African American experience, Lonnie Bunch, the museum's founding director and now Secretary of the overall Smithsonian Institution, has said. Over the years ...

Art Museum is a truly special place, and I’m incredibly proud of everything we’ve accomplished together,” said Lerner in a ...