The Best Adaptive Scissors for Support and Comfort 2021-04-13 18:00:01If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, we may receive an affiliate commission. Most of us take fo
With a Focus on Indigenous Knowledge, 2022 Sydney 2021-04-13 17:02:40The exhibition is being curated under the artistic direction of José Roca.
New Trevor Paglen Documentary Peers Inside Artist’s Attempts 2021-04-13 16:37:20Unseen Skies considers how the artist makes the invisible visible.
Best Lighting Kits for Online Art Demos and 2021-04-13 16:30:13The lockdowns and closures of COVID-19 forced many teaching artists to move their classes online. What started out as a stricture has become a new for
Denise Gardner Becomes First Black Woman to Lead 2021-04-13 16:22:18She will assume leadership of the board this November.
The Best Portable Projectors for Artists 2021-04-13 15:00:24A projector can be an excellent alternative to a video monitor, and it can also be a great tool for artists. You can use one to enlarge drawings and p
In the New Digital Economy, Are Artists Creators? 2021-04-13 14:15:03The 'creator economy' is an evolving buzzword for making money from online creative content. But artists should be wary about being classified as cr
Rare Seurat Studies to Be Auctioned After Being 2021-04-13 12:20:41More than half of the oil studies for Seurat's most famous paintings are held by museums.
The Best Laptop Stands for Working with Visual Information 2021-04-13 12:00:54Maintaining a proper eye level when viewing your laptop screen is key to reducing eyestrain, which is especially important if you work with images. Er
For the Met Museum’s 151st Birthday, Google Showcases 2021-04-13 11:06:07The Google Doodle today features 18 objects and their respective locations within the museum.
Emerging Artists Reign Amid Absence of Mega-Galleries in 2021-04-12 17:56:51"We wanted to come up with a different compilation that people wouldn’t expect from us,” one dealer said.
Turkey Seeks to Recover $14.4 M. Stargazer Sculpture 2021-04-12 17:15:09The country's government filed a lawsuit against Christie's.
Scholastic Stops 'Captain Underpants' Spinoff Book Distribution For 2021-03-29 14:32:53Author Dav Pilkey issued an apology for “The Adventures of Ook and Gluk: Kung-Fu Cavemen From the Future," which he said is "harmful to my Asi
Stunning Photos Show A Man In COVID-19 Isolation 2021-03-22 21:19:58"My only two rules were that I had to set alarms for random minutes of each day, and I had to photograph the exact task I was doing when they went of
Frank Jacobs, Mad Magazine Writer With a Lyrical 2021-04-14 18:02:37He deftly mocked pop culture, politics and more for 57 years. He also wrote new lyrics for familiar songs, which led to a lawsuit from Irving Berlin a
The Triumph of the Celebrity Endorsement 2021-04-14 18:00:38Shilling stars used to be accused of “selling out.” Now they’re hailed as savvy investors and giving the performances of their caree
John Naisbitt, Business Guru and Author of ‘Megatrends,’ 2021-04-14 17:05:15His book, published in 1982 amid a brutal recession, foretold of a bountiful postindustrial information economy. He was half right.
The Brief, Brilliant and Radical Life of Lorraine 2021-04-14 16:19:23Soyica Diggs Colbert’s “Radical Vision” situates the playwright of “A Raisin in the Sun” as a writer who offered “
Donald P. Ryder, Architect of Black Heritage Sites, 2021-04-14 15:55:41His firm, which he formed with J. Max Bond Jr., designed public works commemorating the civil rights movement as well as the Schomburg Center in Harle
‘Pieces of a Woman’ Has Midwives Talking About 2021-04-14 15:52:08Vanessa Kirby’s Oscar-nominated performance involves an extended sequence that these experts say gets some things right — and a few wrong.
Red Carpet or Not, Film Festivals Roll On 2021-04-14 15:23:26Fresh leadership and veteran instincts helped keep film festivals running during the pandemic. The leaders of the major festivals speak about how.
This Ain’t No Disco: Alone in a Crowd 2021-04-14 15:05:15At times, the experience of “SOCIAL! the social distant dance club” felt no more freeing than dancing by myself in my cramped living room,
The 6 Best Speeches of Awards Season So 2021-04-14 14:19:13From a pajama-clad Jodie Foster to the teary “Minari” child star Alan S. Kim, they managed to make their acceptance speeches work from hom
Review: Close Quarters and Distant Love in ‘The 2021-04-14 13:33:37Casting Black actors and filming in a claustrophobic New York apartment revitalizes Jason Robert Brown’s popular two-character musical.
‘Snabba Cash’ Depicts a Sweden Flowing with Money 2021-04-14 13:14:05Netflix’s gender-flipped update of Jens Lapidus’s Stockholm Noir Trilogy probes the hustle for riches among drug dealers and tech billiona
Miami Outdoor Theater Hit Announces a New York 2021-04-14 13:04:56“The Seven Deadly Sins,” a theatrical anthology series, will start off on June 23 at a series of storefront windows in the Meatpacking Dis
Groundbreaking New Center Unveils World's Largest Collection of 2021-04-13 08:30:00More than 20,000 works from artists across the Canadian Arctic are on display at Qaumajuq, a new museum-within-a-museum at the Winnipeg Art Gallery
Celebrate National Library Week With Bibliophilic Backgrounds for 2021-04-09 12:21:50Smithsonian Libraries and Archives offers book lovers these nine stylish backdrops
How the Arts Have Inspired Social Change 2021-04-09 11:23:10Americans have a long tradition of inspiring and elevating movements for change using benefit concerts, song and other artistic traditions
Follow Dante's Footsteps Through Italy 2021-04-07 11:29:04For the 700th anniversary of the poet’s death, visit his birthplace, churches and tomb
From Books Bound in Human Skin to Occult 2021-04-06 08:00:00A new tome takes readers into collector Edward Brooke-Hitching's "madman's library"
Did Shakespeare Base His Masterpieces on Works by 2021-04-06 06:00:00The new book "North by Shakespeare" examines the link between the Bard of Avon and Sir Thomas North
Why These Five Women Changemakers in American Art 2021-04-05 10:50:22A rising scholar of equality issues in American Art dives into the Smithsonian collections to find dynamic stories for her upcoming webcomic series
The Thorny Politics of Presidential Portraiture 2021-04-05 09:00:00In a new podcast, the National Portrait Gallery reveals that a portrait is being commissioned of the former president
Time Travel Into Panama's Deep History With This 2021-04-01 10:26:17'Martina and the Bridge of Time' tells the story of the Isthmus' formation and evolution through the adventures of a young Panamanian girl
These Are the Winners of Smithsonian Magazine's 18th 2021-04-01 09:01:00From India to Antarctica, these pictures capture the passion, solitude and surprise of a year unlike any other
In Search of the Authentic Ernest Hemingway 2021-04-01 09:00:00An upcoming PBS documentary prompts a deep-dive into the story behind this rarely published Smithsonian portrait of the legendary writer
Women Resistance Fighters of WWII, the Secret Lives 2021-04-01 07:00:00These April releases elevate overlooked stories and offer insights on oft-discussed topics
Baltimore City Council Objects To Proposal That Would 2021-04-14 18:01:00Pushed by County Executive Johnny Olszewski Jr., a Democrat, the New Opportunities for Tourism and Entertainment — or NOTE — Act would ena
Make It Stop! Top French Publisher Pleads With 2021-04-14 17:01:00Successive Covid-19 lockdowns in France have given budding writers the time to finally work on that idea for a novel or to polish up an old manuscript
Spotify Turns 15 — It Revolutionized The Music 2021-04-14 16:31:00How completely has streaming transformed the music world? The platform rose from 7% of the U.S. market in 2010 to a whopping 83% by the end of 2020 &m
Most People Think In Images. I Think In 2021-04-14 16:02:00One of the distinctive features of my cognition is that not only do I think with sound and music; I also don’t think in images during my waking
Revealed: The Masterful Sophistication Of The Aztec Language 2021-04-14 15:34:00New research by a British linguistic anthropologist, Gordon Whittaker, is revealing for the first time that the Aztecs’ hieroglyphic writing sys
How A Gentle Little Movie By One Of 2021-04-14 15:01:00Novelist Mohammed Hanif (A Case of Exploding Mangoes) writes about the strange case of Sarmad Khoosat’s film Zindagi Tamasha (“Circus of L
How Beethoven (And The Philadelphia Orchestra) Brought The 2021-04-14 14:25:00The idea that the world’s two most powerful countries can simply “decouple” as their strategic competition grows fiercer — a c
On Zoom, Using Ancient Greek Theater To Process 2021-04-14 14:04:00“Ancient stories, and texts that have stood the test of time, can be portals to honest and dignified grappling with present wounds and longings
South African Arts Collapse During COVID 2021-04-14 13:28:00“Just as an example, when I put a post on Facebook that I was looking for someone to help clean my house, I got at least 50 replies from artists
Two Years After The Notre-Dame Fire, What’s The 2021-04-14 13:02:00In something of a miracle, the huge fire that ravaged the Paris landmark on April 15, 2019 did almost no serious damage to the 8,000-pipe Grand Organ;
Scientists Map Spider Webs For Their Music 2021-04-14 12:29:00Markus Buehler’s team used laser imaging to create a 3D map of webs made by tropical tent-web spiders (Cyrtophora citricola). They identified ea
Does Esperanto Have Any Hope Of Ever Catching 2021-04-14 12:03:00There are two fundamental problems with Esperanto as a genuinely global lingua franca. One is that, while it was intended to be have grammar simple an