Young children in a classroom (Photo credit: Shutterstock.com / Ground Picture ... Her groundbreaking career with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings produced 39 albums that brought cultural awareness and ...

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Andre Lambertson was named James H. Ottaway Sr. Visiting Professor for fall of 2024. The Ottaway Visiting Professorship was ...

The Black Hollywood Education and Resource Center's 30th Short Film Festival will honor industry leaders and feature over 60 ...

The sales closing out 2024 are a collector's dream, including the Bob Mackie dress Miley Cyrus wore at the Grammys, a collection of Grace Kelly's letters, and cinema's most iconic pair of shoes.

The Amsterdam News was saddened to hear of the passing of dance luminary Judith Jamison. Jamison sat down for an interview ...

Read more at http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/In-Vogue.html At 62 years old, Edward Steichen convinced the U.S. Navy to let him gather a team of ...

Jeff MacGregor is the award-winning Writer-at-Large for Smithsonian. He has written for ... and is the author of the acclaimed book Sunday Money. Photo by Olya Evanitsky. The Chinese American ...

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The now-bankrupt catalog had a meteoric rise and fall William Mortensen’s grotesque, retouched photos of celebrities were a far cry from the realism favored by the photography elite ...