Art & Design
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Follow along with Pinky as she learns about portraiture and posing!
This video is part of a larger educational resource featuring the National Portrait Gallery's portrait of First Lady Michelle Obama and the National Zoo's Asian elephants.
In this video, we examine a nineteenth-century Raku ceramic tea bowl made in Japan. We discuss the history and process of making Raku ware, the first kind of ceramic made in Japan specifically to serve matcha (powdered green tea).
In this video, we examine a nineteenth-century Raku ceramic tea bowl made in Japan. We discuss the history and process of making Raku ware, the first kind of ceramic made in Japan specifically to serve matcha (powdered green tea).
In 2023, Dr. Avril Somlyo gifted the museum with a significant collection of porcelain Kakiemon-type figurines, making ours the largest collection of such objects in the United States.
Have you ever been going through your storage, found something, and thought, “Where’d this come from?” That happens sometimes to museums, too.
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Olafur Eliasson’s latest installation married visuals with a soundscape to draw the public’s attention to the plight of the important ecosystem
Head of curatorial affairs Ben Gillespie shares three new oral history interviews that explore intergenerational dynamics.
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Filmmaker Georges Méliès employed some of his signature special effects techniques to create comedy in “Gugusse and the Automaton”