Installation view, Isaac Julien: “Lessons of the Hour,” SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Sept. 24–Dec. 15, 2019. Copyright Isaac Julien, courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro. Image courtesy of SCAD.
New Objects Are Available Online in Celebration of the 250th Anniversary of the Publication of Wheatley Peters’ Poems, Including the Only Copy of the Poet’s Long-Lost “Ocean” Poem in Her Handwriting
Animal care staff at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute in Front Royal, Virginia, welcomed a litter of five cheetah cubs to second-time mother Echo Sept. 12. Image courtesy Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute
Congressional Medal for the Jan. 6 Defenders, Photographs, Law Enforcement Gear and Personal Effects Added to National Museum of American History’s Collections
Left: Newborn gorilla cradled by mother Calaya, a 20-year-old female western lowland gorilla. She gave birth to her second offspring May 27 at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute. (Photo by Valerie Schultz, Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute)
Right: Calaya, a 20-year-old female western lowland gorilla, gave birth to her second offspring May 27 at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute.(Photo by Skip Brown, Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute)
Singer James Brown is captured off stage around Memphis, Tenn. (Ted Williams/Johnson Publishing Company Archive). Courtesy Ford Foundation, J. Paul Getty Trust, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and Smithsonian Institution.
Getty Trust Commits $30 Million to Digitize the Johnson Publishing Company Archive Which Features More Than 4 Million Prints and Negatives That Chronicle 20th Century Black Life
Professional Skateboarders and Filmmakers Jason Lee and Chris “Dune” Pastras Donate Personal Objects to the National Collections During Ceremony at Innoskate Festival
Masks, PPE, Health and Safety Signs, Fundraising- and Vaccine-Related Materials and Oral-History Interviews Added to National Museum of American History’s Collections