Smithsonian Institution
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Damage Control: How Artists Destroy to Create Art
The Hirshhorn's new exhibition explores the theme of destruction in contemporary art since 1950
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What Did the FAO Schwarz Catalog Look Like in 1911?
Old photos from an FAO Schwarz 1911 catalog provide a glimpse at past holiday toys
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A New Education Lab Called Q?rius Aims to Be the Mother of All Curiosity
It's a quirky way to spell curious, but at Natural History's Q?rius, the kids are lining up to get in
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How the Language of Dance and Movement Transcends Cultures
The award-winning choreographer and Lion King dancer talks about his plans for a new work celebrating Omani and East African cultures
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Meet the Real "Most Interesting Man in the World"
On view at African Art, a retrospective of Eliot Elisofon, who drank scotch and was allowed to touch the museum's art
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The Smithsonian's Curator of Asian Film on Where Spike Lee's Oldboy Fails
The Sackler Gallery's curator Tom Vick wonders why Hollywood directors and producers even bother remaking films when the originals were so excellent
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What is the Origin of Hollywood's Red Carpet?
Curator Amy Henderson has rolled out the red carpet to a host of America's dancing superstars in a new show at the Portrait Gallery
Shovels Break Ground for the New National Museum of African American History and Culture
Dignitaries plunge their shovels into a small rectangle of dirt, marking the groundbreaking for the 19th Smithsonian museum
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Before Email, There Was V-mail
A history of the method used to transmit letters during World War II
Our Presidential Exit Poll
Watch our very own "gallery" exit poll in the hall of America’s Presidents in the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery
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