The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art has announced a special Asia After Dark program commemorating Diwali, the Hindu festival of light. The event takes place Friday, Nov. 1, 5–9:30 p.m. It ...

The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation granted the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) $12 million to support GEO-TREES, a partnership of a dozen research organizations providing a free, ...

Andrew Earle Simpson, composer and professor of music at the Benjamin T. Rome School of Music, Drama, and Art at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.

Smithsonian Ambassadors help visitors navigate the Smithsonian by meeting them where they are— outside roving the National Mall. The core mission of the Ambassador program is to make connections ...

For more information on the choice to use “Participatory Science” instead of “Citizen Science” visit the Smithsonian ...

Voting is the cornerstone of democracy, and yet the story of voting in America has often been one of exclusion—and many who are able to vote choose not to exercise the right. The fight for voting ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, in partnership with the National Archives and Records Administration, is displaying the Treaty with the Western Cherokee, 1828, in “Nation to ...

There are no showtimes for this date. In Venom: The Last Dance, Tom Hardy returns as Venom, one of Marvel’s greatest and most complex characters, for the final film in the trilogy. Eddie and Venom are ...

While fast-food restaurants have been around since the 1920s, drive-thru dining came of age in car-crazy California in the 1950s. IN-N-OUT Burger was an early part of this trend, opening in 1948 at ...

Archives of American Art Ed Bisese Christmas card to Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr. Archives of American Art Michael Clark, New York, N.Y. christmas card to Jacob Kainen, Chevy Chase, Md. Archives of ...

As a child, the diversity of plants and animals in his native Colombia left Carlos Jaramillo mesmerized. He found their fossils scattered across the landscape, leading him on a journey into the ...

Portrait of the artist Adam Pendleton. © Adam Pendleton. Photo: Matthew Septimus. Kate Gibbs ...