Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of African Art Announces “Here: Pride and Belonging in African Art”

Exhibition Explores How LGBTQ+ Artists From Africa and Its Diaspora Are Part of a Larger, Joyful Story of African Art History ...
The Art Newspaper

African LGBTQ+ art at the Smithsonian, the Iran crisis’s cultural impact, Louise Nevelson at the Pompidou Metz—podcast

Pride and Belonging in African Art’ at the National Museum of African Art in Washington, D.C, discusses the cultural effects of a brutal crackdown in Iran and takes a look at a landmark 1958 installat ...
The Root

National Museum of African Art Receives $1,800,000 From Sultanate of Oman

“The sun of Oman shines in this museum,” said National Museum of African Art Director Johnnetta B. Cole on a rainy Tuesday in Washington, D.C. “My colleagues and I at this museum are profoundly ...
The Boston Globe

Darkened galleries and ominous signs on a walk through embattled Smithsonian museums

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Beige fabric walls off a gallery at the National Museum of African Art, just off the National Mall. “Coming soon” reads the sign on a slim chrome stand just in front of it. “Here: ...
Washingtonian

AC Problem Closes Four Smithsonian Museums on the National Mall

Four museums on the National Mall are closed Tuesday because of an HVAC problem. The Hirshhorn Museum, the National Museum of Asian Art, the National Museum of African Art, and the National Museum of ...
Hyperallergic

Smithsonian: Exhibiting Cosby Collection "Does Not Imply Any Position on the Serious Allegations"

Whereas last week, the museum refused to mention the accusations against Cosby in any form, yesterday’s statement, published on the museum’s website, does concede their existence: The National Museum ...