Art & Design

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Watch the final presentation by Tatiana Flores, Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Senior Fellow, University of Virginia, entitled, “The Stakes of Mestizaje: An Intellectual History Across Borders.”
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2026 Smithsonian American Art Museum Fellows Lectures – Tatiana Flores

Seed the day and learn how to make your very own crop art using a few simple materials! Mary demonstrates our latest Handi-hour craft, inspired by "State Fairs: Growing American Craft" at SAAM's Renwick gallery.
Smithsonian American Art Museum
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Handi Hour Craft: Crop Art

A person wearing glasses, a floral top, and white cardigan sits at a table with craft supplies and demonstrates how to make crop art.


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Drawing from her work in medical device design and healthcare innovation, Sherman will share the fundamentals of her process—tracing her early use of hand-drawn sketches to her current use of AI tools.
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
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Designing Healthcare in the AI Era, National Design Award Winner Jules Sherman & Figma’s Amber Bravo

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Mastarna (Servius Tullius, the sixth king of Rome) frees Celio Vibenna from chains in this tan colored double panel fresco on a wall in a burial chamber.
See These Ancient Etruscan Frescoes That Italy Bought for Millions and Put on Public Display in Rome
Found in a burial chamber, the artworks depict battles between ancient heroes in the Mediterranean world.
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Rembrandt's Let the Little Children Come Unto Me painting.
Rembrandt Began a Biblical Painting. Another Artist Finished It ‘Rather Crudely.’ Now, Restorations Have Revealed the Long-Lost Original
An art dealer stumbled across “Let the Little Children Come Unto Me” at a German auction house in 2014. Experts have now carefully removed layers of overpaint from the forgotten masterpiece.
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A woman and a helmet on scaffolding using a laser on a fresco painting.
The Hall of Raphael Frescoes Where the Pope Lives at the Vatican Is Getting a Much-Needed Restoration With the Help of Lasers
Conservators will spend the next five years cleaning and retouching the Renaissance frescoes, which date back to the early 16th century.
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A pastel drawing of Jupiter depicts puffy white clouds. The planet's Great Red Spot is shown in a salmon color.
Making Sense of Space with Art
Art can bring a unique view to our understanding of flight and astronomy.
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Room with fireplace, staircase, arched doorway to room with arched windows, and large landscape paintings in gilded frames.
A Museum in the Making
Art collector and American industrialist Charles Lang Freer founded the country’s first national art museum (that’s us!). Long before that, however, he worked with artists, architects, and designers to transform his Detroit home into a place . Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.
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