- The American Foundation for the Blind launched the Helen Keller Archive, the world's first fully accessible digital archive comprised of more than 160,000 artifacts. [via PR Newswire]
- Ahead of his major retrospective at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, artist Trevor Paglen shares his views on the social and political implication of surveillance systems and artificial intelligence. [via Art Newspaper]
- Objects from the movie about the first superhero of African descent to appear in mainstream American comics, Black Panther, are coming to the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture. [via NBC]
- The Smithsonian is staying open until midnight Saturday to mark the Solstice hosting a series of events including an international arts and dialogue festival at the historic Arts and Industries Building. [via Smithsonian Magazine]
- The Worcester Art Museum introduced signs in their gallery talking about which portrait subjects benefited from slavery. [via WBUR]
- Physical anthropologists from the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History shed new light on combat medicine after studying remains from a pit of human bones found at a Civil War battlefield in Virginia. [via NPR]
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