Credit: “Milk” by Elsa María Meléndez. Canvas with silkscreen, embroidery, ink, and other textiles. 2020 Collection of the artist. Copyright Elsa María Meléndez.
James Di Loreto / Smithsonian Institution. (Cell phone cases from left to right) Dinosaur Fossils in Blue by Meghan Hageman, Buffalo Medicine by John Isaiah Pepion, Piikani Band of the Blackfoot Confederacy, ¡Sin Lucha No Hay Victoria! (No Guts, No Glory!) by Lena Run, Progress Pride by Dani Guarino, Notorious B.I.G. Icon–Biggie Smalls by Thomas O’Neill, The Journey by Stephen Hogarth, Dancing Dragonflies by Michelle Lowden, Acoma Pueblo, Hi! by Jay Fleck.
View inside the nearly finished “Early Flight” exhibition at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC. "Early Flight" will be on view when the museum's west end reopens on Oct. 14, 2022. Credit: Smithsonian Institution
Exhibition Presents a New Way of Thinking About and Viewing Indian Paintings With Artworks That Reveal How Artists Conveyed Emotions and Ecologies in Groundbreaking Ways
The Apollo 11 Command Module Columbia displayed in the new "Destination Moon" exhibition, opening Oct. 14, 2022. Credit: Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum
Credit: “Harriet Beecher Stowe” by Alanson Fisher, oil on canvas, 1853. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution (L). “Congressman John Lewis” by Michael Shane Neal, oil on linen, 2020. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. Gift of Jeffery and Cindy Loring in memory of Congressman John Lewis. Copyright: Michael Shane Neal (R).
Sister Gertrude Morgan, Fan, ca. 1970, paint and ink on card, Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Margaret Z. Robson Collection, Gift of John E. and Douglas O. Robson, 2016.38.43R-V.
Sister Rosetta Tharpe performs at the 1967 Newport Folk Festival. Photo by Diana Jo Davies. Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections.
Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the “Godmother of Rock ‘n’ Roll,” rose to prominence in the 1930s as a pioneer of mixing “secular sounds,” such as electric guitar, with sacred lyrics.
Septima Poinsette Clark by Brian Lanker, gelatin silver print, 1987. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Partial gift of Lynda Lanker, and museum purchase with the support of Robert E. Meyerhoff and Rheda Becker, Agnes Gund, Kate Kelly and George Schweitzer, Lyndon J. Barrois and Janine Sherman Barrois, and Mark and Cindy Aron. Copyright Brian Lanker Archive.
Diver Nestor Ortiz of CONICET beside an experiment in Puerto Madryn, Argentina. Ortiz is adjacent to a panel open to predators. Panels contained within cages to exclude predators hang suspended in the background.
