Smithsonian receives $40m from the Lilly Endowment
The Smithsonian Institution has received $40m from the Lilly Endowment for its upcoming celebrations of the 250th anniversary of the ...
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Biden picks rising star at the Smithsonian to head presidential arts committee dissolved by the Trump administration
US President Joseph Biden has named Tsione Wolde-Michael, the director of the Center for Restorative History at the Smithsonian Institution’s ...
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US campaign group sues Smithsonian over return of Benin Bronzes to Nigeria
A New York-based organisation known as the Restitution Study Group (RSG) is leading a lawsuit to stop the return of ...
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Donald Trump’s political action committee gives Smithsonian Institution $650,000 to pay for presidential portrait commission
Whereas hundreds of donors—including celebrities John Legend, Steven Spielberg and Chrissy Teigen—footed the bill for his predecessor’s portrait, Donald Trump’s ...
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Getty institute and Smithsonian museum will share an unparalleled photo archive of Black American life
In the second half of the 20th century, Chicago’s Johnson Publishing Company (JPC) was the great image-maker of African American ...
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Artefacts long held by the Smithsonian will go on view at new Mi’ kmaw cultural centre in Nova Scotia
More than 500 objects associated with the Mi’ kmaw Nation will be transferred from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the ...
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Smithsonian adopts new ‘ethical returns policy’ to handle artefacts with problematic histories
The Smithsonian Institution is adopting a new “ethical returns policy” that will allow its museums to repatriate items that were ...
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