- You can help the Smithsonian produce a 9 CD Hip Hop & Rap Anthology in a newly launched Kickstarter, and if you kick in $100 or more, you'll get a digital-only track! The material in the anthology was produced with an advisory board comprised of members of the hip-hop community including artists Chuck D, MC Lyte, Questlove and 9th Wonder. [via billboard]
- The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery announced that former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama have chosen the artists for their official portraits which will reside in the museum. [via Rolling Stone]
- The Boston Public Library will digitize, preserve, and make available “hundreds of thousands of audio recordings in a variety of historical formats,” for the Great 78 project powered by the Internet Archive. [via Open Culture]
- Too good - librarians recreate a Kardashian photo shoot in all their librarian glory. [via Bored Panda]
- Research at the Library of Congress helped to confirm the principle carver of Mount Rushmore, Luigi Del Bianco. [via LOC Blog]
- Frances Glessner Lee, the woman behind the 'Nutshell Studies,' aka Dollhouse Crime Scenes now on display at the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Renwick Gallery. [via Smithsonian Magazine]
- How the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum prepares Apollo 11 to travel the country. [via PBS Newshour]
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