Spanish forces and their Indigenous allies captured Tenochtitlán in 1521, bringing the Aztec Empire’s reign to a close after less than a century. The White House, whose cornerstone was laid in 1792, ...
The Smithsonian Design Triennial presents 25 commissions that explore the physical and conceptual ideas of shelter and refuge ...
A Smithsonian curator reflects back on the artistic legend, a "Renaissance man" with 28 Grammys to his name, who died Sunday ...
The pachyderm, named Kamala, was suffering from osteoarthritis when zoo staff chose to euthanize her ...
Before arriving in North America, the species is believed to have invaded South American rivers through ballast water—the ...
Despite the lack of a dedicated mission to the planet, scientists have learned plenty through ground observations and space telescopes ...
See the Breathtaking 14th-Century Sienese Artworks That Helped Set the Italian Renaissance in Motion
This brief chapter of art history is often overlooked. Now, an exhibition in New York City makes a strong argument for the ...
When fishermen found the endangered loggerhead sea turtle off Vancouver Island in February, she was listlessly floating in a ...
Recently, SAAM acquired a “Wobbulator” built by Nam June Paik and Shuya Abe for its Nam June Paik Archive and were able to ...
Hosted by the museum’s director, Kim Sajet, PORTRAITS explores art, biography, history and identity.
In the Jim Crow South, activists became martyrs at the hands of white racists, all for the just cause of using the vote to ...
A "staggering array" of markings have been hiding in plain sight carved into the walls of Gainsborough Old Hall, a 500-year-old home in Lincolnshire, England ...
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