Art & Design

The Louvre Museum in Paris, France, is famous for holding iconic works of art, like Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa. Did you know it also houses one of the richest and most comprehensive collections of Islamic art in the world? For the first time.... Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.

Happy 10th anniversary to the National Museum for African American Heritage and Culture! The museum’s opening dedication ceremony was unforgettable. The program, co-produced by musician Quincy Jones, featured speeches by then President Barack Obama.

From the California coast to the Kansas heartland to the streets of NYC, the photographs in “Much Here Is Beautiful: Photography Surveys of the U. S. Bicentennial” offer an expansive and evocative portrait of America in the 1970s and early 1980s.

To celebrate the U.S. Bicentennial in 1976, the milestone anniversary of the country’s founding, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) created a grant program to fund a series of regional photographic projects.

Listen to “Shultz's Dream” from ‘Making American Music: The Smithsonian Sessions,’ Dom Flemons' centuries-spanning third album on Smithsonian Folkways.