Art & Design

We knead you to know that the butter sculpting process is dairy hands on. Sarah, Grace, and Hannah Pratt reveal their favorite tools and why they appreciate working as a team.

In an empire where visual representation meant power, Hamida Banu Begum (ca. 1527–1604) achieved something remarkable—her image appears in at least nine surviving Mughal court paintings from her lifetime.

Cake artist Jill Nguyen from Washington D.C. met with conservation biologist Gary Krupnick and scientific illustrator Alice Tangerini in the US National Herbarium of our National Museum of Natural History.

For two nights only, the Smithsonian Castle will come to life with a large-scale, multisensory experience by media artist Refik Anadol. Anadol was driven by one question: “What would it would look like if the Smithsonian Castle could dream?”

Forget calming white noise or soothing whispering sounds. We’ll take Japanese tamping brush ASMR any day of the week.

Calling someone's paintings “enormous panoramas of emptiness” was a sick burn in 1952. These rubber baby underpants are just an example of the many unique and unexpected pieces of correspondence in the collections of our Archives of American Art.