Description: When museum visitors match the artwork. [via artFido]The Smithsonian's Secretary, David Skorton, is convening thought-leaders to discuss critical issues Americans are facing, starting with immigration. The International Federation of Television Archives' Innovation award went to Radio.Garden, a website that allows you to browse radio stream geographically. [via Sound and
Description: Dr. Massumeh Farhad, Chief Curator and Curator of Islamic Art, Freer and Sackler Galleries, has created numerous exhibitions on the arts of the Islamic world, and twice received the Smithsonian Secretary's prestigious research prize. #Groundbreaker
Description: Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery's Associate Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Media Arts, Dr. Asma Naeem, was an attorney and public servant prior to studying art history, and researches the history of technology and the sensorial imagination of both artist and beholder. #Groundbreaker
Description: Art Deco beetles and butterflies from Smithsonian Libraries. [via Hyperallergic]Depression-era faces lost to history by an editor's hold punch. [via PetaPixel]A new online archive: the Digital Transgender Archive. [via Smithsonian Magazine]The Photographers' Identities Catalog, a collection of biographical data for over 115,000 photographers, studios, etc. [via NYPL LABS]A new
Description: The George Lucas Museum of Narrative Art will have a prominent home on Chicago's gorgeous lakefront. The museum will house Lucas's private art and memorabilia collections, which includes Star Wars and Indiana Jones ephemera, Norman Rockwell paintings, and movie posters. [via Wired] Who knew? Actors who got their start in government films! A weekly feature of archive & museum
Description: Ellen Dorn (right), former Director of Exhibitions at the Smithsonian’s Arts and Industries Building, worked on several large scale traveling exhibits including “America’s Smithsonian,” for the Smithsonian's 150th and "Smithsonian's America" which traveled to Japan. #Groundbreaker
Description: Curator of painting & sculpture, Dr. Dorothy Moss, Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, directs the triennial Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, and curates the museum’s first-ever performance art series, IDENTIFY. #Groundbreaker
Description: Curator of Latino art, Dr. Taína Caragol, Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, aspires to: "My goal at the Portrait Gallery has been to make sure the contributions of Latinos to U.S. history are properly represented in the museum." #Groundbreaker
Description: Lend a hand to "Wiki Loves Monuments" to improve Wikipedia articles about U.S. historic sites. The Banned Book Handbook, 2016 edition. [via Info Docket]Didn't get tickets to the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture Museum opening? You can still attend the surrounding festival featuring The Roots and Public Enemy! [via NY Times]The first
Description: You can now download hi-res images of Vincent Van Gogh's paintings, sketches, and letters. [via Open Culture and Vincent Van Gogh Museum]Speaking of Van Gogh, the Art Institute of Chicago has recreated the bedroom in his famous painting and it is now for rent on Air BnB. [via Colossal]More enjoyable art browsing brought to you by technology! Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of
Description: Anthropologist & educator Dr. Johnnetta Cole was director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art from 2009–2017, and the only person to have served as president of two historically Black colleges for women in the U.S., Spelman and Bennett. #Groundbreaker
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