- Art history memes are back and better than ever. [via Bored Panda]
- The fascinating story behind the Freer Sackler's Peacock Room. [via Atlas Obscura]
- A new app, Seek, for identifying plants and animals, the "Shazam of Nature." [via My Modern Met]
- Speaking of apps, you can now create 3D artwork in Augmented Reality with Artopia! [via Colossal]
- And we have an app for Archives researchers! Tropy, an open-source desktop app which helps researchers organize and describe photos they take in archives. [via AHA]
- The reports of noted baseball scout, Branch Rickey, are now online. Here's some background via by the Library of Congress. [via Infodocket]
- Increasingly, archives are figuring out how to be responsive to tragedies like the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting and the 2016 Brussels Stock Exchange attack.
- For the first time since opening, the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture will allow walk-ups on Wednesdays. [via USA Today]
- Mark your calendars! The largest onsite installation by artist Lee Ufan is coming to the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum Fall 2019. [via Curbed DC]
- It turns out bowhead whales are quite noisy. [via WAPO]
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