Amy Sherald, best known for her portrait of Michelle Obama, is affirmed as one of the most significant American artists of ...

Amy Sherald, who painted former First Lady Michelle Obama's portrait in 2018, has a major survey of her work opening this ...

Lee’s surrender at Appomattox—dramatically illustrates the dangers of letting myth substitute for accurate history. For ...

Margaret Mitchell was born in 1900, a quarter century after the beginning and subsequently abrupt end of Reconstruction.

The National Museum of African American History and Culture, which is part of the Smithsonian Institution, currently has exhibits focusing on the power of Black protest, the impact of enslavement ...

In 1991, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, which was then known as the National Museum of American Art, created an ...

Some of the works are borrowed from the National Gallery of Art’s “Across the Nation” initiative, which loans artworks from ...

The president’s executive order demanding change at the institution presents a perilous test for Lonnie G. Bunch III, its ...

There’s no shortage of great arts institutions in the capital city. These are the classics and hidden gems that we like best.

The administration’s move to defund the Institute of Museum and Library Services is reminiscent of what Hitler did to German ...

When Monica Hesse learned of President Donald Trump’s executive order to eradicate “corrosive ideology” at the Smithsonian ...