Lily Hope, Memorial Beats, 2021, thigh-spun merino and cedar bark with copper, headphones, and audio files, 16 x 4 x 10 in., The Hope Family Trust. Photo by Sydney Akagi.
Credit: (Left) “Maya Lin working on Civil Rights Memorial” by Adam Stoltman, 1989. Photograph. Courtesy of Adam Stoltman. (Center) “Dr. Marta Moreno Vega” by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, 2011. Inkjet print. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Catherine and Ingrid Pino Duran. copyright 2011 Timothy Greenfield-Sanders. (Right) “Althea Gibson” by Brian Lanker, 1988. Gelatin silver print. Partial gift of Lynda Lanker and a museum purchase made possible with generous support from Robert E. Meyerhoff and Rheda Becker, Agnes Gund, Kate Kelly and George Schweitzer, Lyndon J. Barrois Sr. and Janine Sherman Barrois, and Mark and CindyAron. Copyright Brian Lanker Archive
Releases Include Book “Biography of a Phantom,” Box Set “Playing for the Man at the Door: Field Recordings from the Collection of Mack McCormick, 1958 – 1971” and Display at National Museum of American History
Ruddy ducks paddle in the Prairie Pothole aviary. Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute visitors will be able to see these migratory birds up close at the renovated Bird House, which will open to the public Monday, March 13. Photo credit: Skip Brown, Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute
Cauleen Smith, Sojourner, 2018, digital video, color, sound, 22:41 minutes, Smithsonian American Art Museum, museum purchase made possible by the SJ Weiler Fund, 2020.54.1, copyright 2020, Cauleen Smith
K-Pop Sensation Eric Nam and Breakout Star Raveena Perform May 13, Part of a Two-Week Festival Celebrating Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, Cornerstone of the Museum’s Centennial Anniversary
Filmed Onsite, “The Exhibit: Finding the Next Great Artist” Follows Seven Rising Artists, Features Artworks in the Hirshhorn Collection; Launches March 3 on MTV, March 7 on Smithsonian Channel
“rainbow night 4” from the series “Rainbow Passes Slowly,” Ay- Ō, (b. 1931, Japan), 1971, silkscreen; ink on paper, H x W (unframed) 54.5 × 73.6 cm (21 7/16 × 29 in), gift of Margot Paul Ernst in memory of Mr. and Mrs. Norman S. Paul, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, S1987.976.11, Copyright Ay-Ō
First Museum Exhibition in US Dedicated to Japanese Artist Ay-Ō, Member of the International Fluxus Avant-garde Art Group, Celebrated Figure of Pop Art Movement
