Smithsonian, National Gallery Set to Reopen Tuesday, Following Long Government Shutdown
The institutions had closed their doors shortly after the new year, after running low on funds.
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Smithsonian Secretary David J. Skorton Submits Resignation, Will Depart in June
He's been tapped to be president of the Association of American Medical Colleges.
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Then and Now: As Wojnarowicz Is Our Witness
With a Whitney Museum retrospective having just opened, we look back at the artist, his influence, and his milieu.
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Smithsonian Appoints Curator and Archivist for African-American Art
Erin Jenoa Gilbert and Rayna Andrews join the institution, which is based in Washington, D.C.
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Morning Links: Dark Matter Edition
Eric Veit, Dena Yago, and Jutta Zimmermann’s “Some Versions of Pastoral” at Tomorrow Gallery in New York. [Contemporary Art Daily] The Smithsonian Institution’s Archives of American Art…
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Whistler: The Original Art Star
A century before Warhol, Whistler treated his own persona as a work of art. In the Peacock Room, he created an installation that expressed his bitterness about the ties between art and money.
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Morning Links: Tom of Finland Edition
Here’s a profile of Okwui Enwezor, who is readying his Venice Biennale and who hints he may be retiring from the biennial game: “This is exhausting,” he says. “In any case, there’s a need…
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Asia Society’s Melissa Chiu Will Head Hirshhorn Museum
The Asia Society's Melissa Chiu has been appointed director of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, in Washington, D.C., according to a statement from the museum. She will take up her new post S…
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Smithsonian Names David J. Skorton as Secretary
The Smithsonian Institution's Board of Regents has appointed David J. Skorton, president of Cornell University and a board-certified cardiologist, as the 13th Secretary of the Smithsonian. Skorton w…
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13 Dazzling Treasure-Packed Art-Museum Shows to See in Spring 2014
Masterworks, manuscripts, mosaics, royal jewels, devotional sculpture, and blinged-out arms and armor feature in exhibitions devoted to the arts of Byzantium, Buddhism, Islam, West Africa, the…
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