Portrait of a Gaofeng Yuanmiao, 1238 - 1295. Chūan Kinkō (mid-15th century) Japan, Muromachi period, 1392-1568 Ink on paper. H x W (image): 58.4 x 37.4 cm. Gift of Charles Lang Freer, Freer Gallery of Art. F1911.317a-b
“Mind Over Matter: Zen in Medieval Japan” Launches “The Arts of Devotion,” a Five-Year Initiative Dedicated to Furthering Civic Discourse and the Understanding of Religion
Chela Zabin, a marine ecologist with the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, counts oysters and Fucus rockweed in the intertidal zone in San Francisco Bay. (Credit: Jeff Blumenthal/SERC)
Image courtesy Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery. The National Portrait Gallery is grateful to the generous donors who made these commissions possible and proudly recognizes them at npg.si.edu/obamaportraitstour. Support for the national tour has been generously provided by Bank of America.
"The Web of Space" sculpture by John Safer. A miniature version of this sculpture is given to the National Air and Space Museum’s Michael Collins Trophy winners every year. Credit: Smithsonian Institution
Still image of several supra-arcade downflows, also described as “dark, finger-like features,” occurring in a solar flare. The downflows appear directly above the bright flare arcade. This solar flare occurred June 18, 2015. Image credit: NASA SDO
Preston Singletary (American Tlingit, born 1963). White Raven (Dleit Yéil), 2018. Blown, hot-sculpted, and sand-carved glass; steel stand. 19 1/4 × 9 × 14 in. (48.9 × 22.9 × 35.6 cm). Courtesy of the artist. Photo by Russell Johnson, courtesy of Museum of Glass
