As the US celebrates its 250th birthday in 2026, there is no better place to be during this historic milestone than Washington, DC.

Celebrate gorgeous flowers at the Lotus and Water Lily Festival, check out music and cultural festivals, and enjoy animals ...

The art is all from the newly expanded and remastered edition of The Artist’s Guide to Sketching, originally written and illustrated in 1982 by me and the late Thomas Kinkade. The tips marked JG are ...

Black culture is the pulse of music, dance and pop culture, and it’s at the heartbeat of what makes the world go round. It ...

Wikimedia Commons/Jessie Tarbox Beals The 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair Human Zoo The Philippine Exposition was the largest ...

Eighty-eight years have passed since Amelia Earhart vanished into legend, her silver Lockheed Electra disappearing somewhere ...

The Hirshhorn, the Asian Art and African Art museums, and the National Museum of the American Indian had to close on Sunday.

1661 Pennsylvania Ave NW, #1 Washington, DC 20006 americanart.si.edu ...

Artists are nominated by a Smithsonian research staff member and then selected by a panel of Smithsonian art curators and representatives from the science, history and culture communities. More than ...

Save Our Museum committee formed to preserve Anacostia Community Museum amid funding cuts. Concerns over loss of a local ...

It is one of the most evocative works from the American Civil War: A sculpture of a Black man who had escaped from slavery ...

All Smithsonian museums have officially reopened after officials say  heating, ventilation and air conditioning issues linked ...