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      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Massumeh Farhad

      • Date: October 25, 2017
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • 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

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      Link Love: 6/4/2010

      • Date: June 4, 2010
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="314" caption="The Amb. Richard B. Parker Photographs contains 200 black and white prints, 481 black and white negatives, and two black and white contact sheets of Islamic monuments in Algeria, Cairo, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Morocco, and Spain, 1965-1979, by Richard Bordeaux Parker, Unknown medium, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M.

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      Link Love: 8/25/2017

      • Date: August 25, 2017
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: 435 high resolution book plates of gorgeous illustrations from Audubon's The Birds of America are now available for free download! [via Hyperallergic]And after you're done with the plates, check out peacock feathers under a high magnification lens, by artist Waldo Nell. [via Wired]University students are working to save the remaining copies of a black-owned newspaper, The

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      Link Love: 9/29/2017

      • Date: September 29, 2017
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Our National Museum of African American History & Culture is getting a forever stamp October 13th! [via WUSA 9]Save the date: the Freer Sackler reopens October 14th and the are celebrating with a festival, IlluminAsia featuring projections on the building. [via DCist] Need your baby animal fix? The National Zoo has three baby critically-endangered dama gazelles, the latest

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      Valentine’s Day: Love is Blooming

      • Date: February 14, 2012
      • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
      • Description: Need a date idea for Valentine’s Day? Let the Smithsonian help you out with a tour of its Enid Haupt Garden.

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      Elisabeth West FitzHugh, a Driving Force in Cultural Heritage Conservation and Scientific Research

      • Date: July 6, 2021
      • Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
      • Description: Learn about FitzHugh’s over 50-year career in conservation science at the Smithsonian.

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