Aviva Shen

Aviva Shen

 

Aviva Shen is a reporter/blogger for ThinkProgress. Before joining CAP, Aviva interned and wrote for Smithsonian magazine, Salon, and New York.

Indulge and educate yourself at the Power of Chocolate Festival this weekend.

Weekend Events Feb 10-12: Mourning, The Power of Chocolate Festival, and the Emerson String Quartet

How much is the Hope Diamond worth? Ask Smithsonian.

How Much the Hope Diamond is Worth and Other Questions From Our Readers

From American art, history and culture, air and space technology, Asian art and any of the sciences from astronomy to zoology, we'll find an answer

The African Art Museum's film festival takes place every Thursday this month.

Events Feb 7-9: Water Matters, Multiplicity, and Touki Bouki

Learn why water matters, take a tour of the American Art Museum's exhibition, Multiplicity, and enjoy a free film at the African Art House Film Festival

Take a guided tour of the universe in the Air and Space Museum's portable planetarium.

Weekend Events Feb 3-5: Under the Stars, Black History Month Family Day, and The Big Sleep

The Black List features portraits of fifty African Americans who are influential in their fields, such as Chris Rock.

Celebrate Black History Month with the Smithsonian

From Kenyan storytelling performances to Black Power film screenings, February on the Mall is buzzing with Black History Month events

The Art of Video Games exhibit opens at the American Art Museum on March 16.

The Top Five Most Anticipated Exhibits of 2012

Take a look at the five upcoming exhibits we're most excited about

Adorable Photos of the National Zoo’s Rare Maned Wolf Pups

For the first time in two years, a litter of the South American mammals was born at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute

Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's plantation, was run by hundreds of enslaved African Americans in his lifetime.

“Paradox of Liberty” Tells the Other Side of Jefferson’s Monticello

Presented by the National Museum of African American History and Culture, this exhibit looks at the iconic founding father through the eyes of his slaves

The American Indian Museum features two daily films through the month of February

Events Jan 31-Feb 2: Draw and Discover, Great Spies of WWII, and February Daily Films

This week, sketch at the Luce Foundation Center, learn about espionage during WWII, and enjoy a Cree film at the American Indian Museum

Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami's trilogy kicks off with "Where is the Friend's Home?"

Weekend Events Jan 27-29: Iranian Film Festival, Renwick Birthday Party, and Silkscreening Demo

This weekend, the Iranian Film Festival features Abbas Kiarostami, the Renwick Gallery turns 40, and artist Kristina Bilonick leads a silkscreening demo

Congolese artist Sammy Baloji combines images of past industry with modern photographs in a patchwork of memory and regret.

Remembering “The Beautiful Time” at the Natural History Museum

Congolese artist Sammy Baloji challenges his nation's collective memory with collages that meld the past and present, on view at the Natural History Museum

A still life from Annie Leibovitz's Pilgrimage, on view at the American Art Museum

Events Jan 24-26: Annie Leibovitz’s Pilgrimage, Profile America Forum, and Flights of Fancy

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Curators, Scientific Adventurers and Book Worms to Watch in 2012

Our top ten picks from the Smithsonian Twitterati and blogrolls

See Alice Waters and her new portrait side-by-side on Friday.

Weekend Events January 20-22: An Evening with Alice Waters, Create Your Own Peacock Room and Dance for the Dying

Learn the story behind Dale Chihuly's Blanket Cylinder Series at the Renwick Gallery.

Events January 17-19: The Loving Story, Blanket Cylinder Series and Beat the Blues

Would you eat this bacon sundae?

Why Are We So Crazy for Bacon?

"Everything's better with bacon" is the ruling philosophy of the decade. But are we taking it too far?

Honor Martin Luther King, Jr. this weekend

Weekend Events January 13-15: Martin Luther King Jr’s Birthday, To the Mountaintop and Native Dance

See Warhol through an artist's eyes in Talking With Andy on January 11

Events January 10-12: Mission Impossible, Talking about Andy, Webby Talk

This week, experience Mission: Impossible in IMAX, rediscover the iconic work of Andy Warhol, and learn about the most innovative work happening on the Web

Come make your own stamp collection at a drop-in workshop at the Postal Museum.

Weekend Events Jan 6-8: “This is Not a Film,” Stamps, Masterworks of Three Centuries

This weekend, watch an Iranian film, attend a stamp collecting workshop or listen to eclectic Baroque chamber music

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