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The Samuel Goldwyn Children’s Center | MPTF
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Aided by AI, Study Uncovers Hidden Sex Differences in Dynamic Brain Function
Posted on February 29th, 2024 by Dr. Monica M. Bertagnolli
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Jewish “Ghosts”: Judit Hersko and Susan Hiller and the Feminist Intersectional Art of Post-Holocaust…
1. IntroductionIn the realm of feminist art, the exploration of Jewish identities has often remained obscured, as was central to my earlier work, Jewish Identities in American Feminist Art: Ghosts of Ethnicity (Bloom 2006). The book…
Smithsonian American Art Museum Presents In-Person and Virtual Programs as Part of the 2024 National…
The Smithsonian American Art Museum is collaborating for the 11th year in a row with the National Cherry Blossom Festival for a series of in-person and virtual cherry blossom-themed public programs. The museum’s cherry blossom…
Golden Swords of the Early Nomads of Eurasia: A New Classification and Chronology
1. IntroductionThe first millennium BC was marked by the spread of iron, the rise of nomadism, and the cavalry revolution. It was also the time of the emergence of new social and cultural standards, thanks to which the nomadic world was…
La Liga de la Decencia: Performing 20th Century Mexican History in 21st Century Texas
In addition, I became very interested in investigating the political climate in which these characters, tropes, and dances began to develop given how long they have remained on the theatrical stage and how integral they have become to…
National Portrait Gallery Celebrates Women’s History Month With a Festival, Programs and Exhibitions…
The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery will celebrate Women’s History Month with a free, all-ages festival and in-person and online programs and exhibitions. March kicks off with the annual Women’s History Month Festival in…
Feeling Is First
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Department of Art and Art History, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX 78712, USA
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A Potential New Way to Prevent Noise-Induced Hearing Loss: Trapping Excess Zinc
Posted on February 22nd, 2024 by Dr. Monica M. Bertagnolli
Zinc in the inner ear is…
“Grand Narratives” and “Personal Dramas”: (Re)reading the Masterpieces by Artemisia Gentileschi
1. Introduction: La grande pittriceIn the Kensington Palace pinacotheca, currently owned by King Charles III, there is a small-scale canvas that is both an allegorical representation of the art of painting and a (presumed) self-portrait…
MoMA Goes beyond the Iron Curtain: The Eastern European Tour of The Prints of Andy Warhol
1. IntroductionAmerican pop art, although well represented in Western Europe, was long hidden from the Eastern European’s eye. According to art historian David Crowley, even if “the Soviet engagement with pop art was predominately…
Conversations with the Artist: Featuring Mstyslav Chernov, 20 Days in Mariupol | MPTF
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Conversations with the Artist: Featuring Sheila Nevins & Trish Adlesic, The ABCs of Book…
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Conversations with the Artist: Featuring Kris Bowers & Ben Proudfoot, The Last Repair Shop |…
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Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Correspondence Art | The Art Institute of Chicago
Correspondence art—also known as mail or postal art—is a dialogue, a connection, a testament to the enduring power of creativity.
By <a href="https://www.artic.edu/authors/219/sofia-canale-parola" rel="author">Sofia…
Arts and Refugees: Multidisciplinary Perspectives (Vol. 2)
1. IntroductionPublished in 2019, the Special Issue entitled “Arts and Refugees: Multidisciplinary Perspectives” gathered together a set of articles exploring the role of art created and performed by refugees settled in urban European…
The Discursive Power of Digital Popular Art during the Russo-Ukrainian War: Re/Shaping Visual…
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Jewelry, Accessories, and Decorative Elements of Women’s Funeral Costume of the First Half of the…
Arts, Vol. 13, Pages 35: Jewelry, Accessories, and Decorative Elements of Women’s Funeral Costume of the First Half of the 6th Century BCE in the Territory of Forest-Steppe Scythia
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Phil Alden Robinson | MPTF
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Smithsonian Hosts Annual Day of Remembrance Program | Smithsonian Institution
The 82nd anniversary of President Franklin D. Roosevelt signing Executive Order 9066, this Presidents Day, Feb. 19, will be commemorated with a panel discussion at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. The order…
Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum Has Announced Its Committee of Scholars | Smithsonian…
The Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum has established a committee of scholars to guide the museum on content and provide input on the museum’s comprehensive plan to document the full spectrum of the experiences of women…
David Hemingson | MPTF
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Affect and Commemoration Atop the Pedestal
High above the entrance to City Park in New Orleans, Paula Wilson danced. Her perch was an empty pedestal, on top of which she unleashed a flurry of emotions for twenty minutes under the cover of the early morning. The year was 2017, a…
What’s Behind that Morning Migraine? Community-Based Study Points to Differences in Perceived Sleep…
Posted on February 8th, 2024 by Dr. Monica M. Bertagnolli
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Speech Melody Research as the Interdisciplinary Foundation of the Petrograd Institute of the Living…
1. IntroductionThe opposition between the theoretical attitudes of Russian Symbolists and Formalists is often referred to in major works on the history of Formalism. This applies both to the assertions of the Formalists themselves and…
The Complexity of Colour/Textile Interaction in Digital Printing as an Integral Part of…
1. IntroductionIn the context of urban design and the aesthetic shaping of the human environment, the interaction of colours and materials plays a key role. The presence, significance, dominance, and inter-relationships of colours in…
Celebrating Lunar New Year: The Year of the Dragon | The Art Institute of Chicago
By <a href="https://www.artic.edu/authors/216/nancy-chen" rel="author">Nancy Chen</a>, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/authors/50/craig-lee" rel="author">Craig Lee</a>, <a…
Choreographing Social Memories: Healing and Collective Imagining in Eiko Otake and Wen Hui’s…
1. IntroductionOn 3 January 2020, New York-based Japanese artist Eiko Otake arrived in Beijing for a month-long collaboration with independent Chinese choreographer and filmmaker Wen Hui.1 This project, funded by the Asian Cultural…
Public Can Help Name Cotton-Top Tamarins at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology…
Starting today, Feb. 5, the public will have an opportunity to vote on names for two cotton-top tamarin sisters at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute (NZCBI). The newest residents at the Small Mammal…
National Museum of Asian Art Announces Premiere of Centennial-Commissioned Film “Abiding Nowhere” by…
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art has announced the world premiere of Abiding Nowhere, a film it commissioned from Taiwan-based director Tsai Ming-liang in honor of the museum’s centennial last year. The film will be…
National Portrait Gallery Presents “Star Power: Photographs From Hollywood’s Golden Age by George…
The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery will present “Star Power: Photographs from Hollywood’s Golden Age by George Hurrell,” an exhibition exploring timeless images of film royalty from the 1930s and 1940s. George Hurrell, the…
Smithsonian Presents the Mother Tongue Film Festival, “Finding Balance” | Smithsonian Institution
The annual Mother Tongue Film Festival will take place at the National Mall from Wednesday, Feb. 21, to Saturday, Feb. 24. Featuring 23 films in 27 languages from communities around the globe, the festival will explore the theme…
National Museum of American History Receives Gift From Americana Corner To Support Gunboat…
The gunboat USS Philadelphia, the oldest surviving American fighting vessel and an American cultural treasure, is being preserved at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in part through a $1 million leading gift…
Heather Reinholtz, Executive Director, Retail and Dining | The Art Institute of Chicago
By <a href="https://www.artic.edu/authors/204/heather-reinholtz" rel="author">Heather Reinholtz</a> and <a href="https://www.artic.edu/authors/203/brittany-miller" rel="author">Brittany Miller</a>
She…
Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum Celebrates Women’s History Month 2024 With Inaugural…
The Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum has announced an exciting lineup of new initiatives for Women’s History Month March 2024 that will further the museum’s mission to make women’s history more visible. These initiatives…
National Air and Space Museum Provides Update on Renovation Project | Smithsonian Institution
The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum has announced the names and estimated opening timeline for the final 12 galleries to open as part of the renovation of its building in Washington, D.C.
The next round of galleries to…
White Atmospheres: Choreographing Racial Materialities in Academic Space
How can we escape the dominant epistemology of “identity” as a fixed attribute of individuals, without losing the urgent and much-needed analytics of identity as social and material force? In the gap between these two approaches—we…
Hungarian Representative Exhibitions and the Rhetoric of Display in the 1920s
Notes1For clarity, Hungarian names will be presented in the Western order, first name, last name, not the traditional Hungarian last name, first name. First names, however, will not be translated, thus Miklos, not Nicholas.2Other…
To Touch Time: United States. Black Feminist Modernist Sculpture in the 1970s and 1980s
1. IntroductionBeverly Buchanan’s (1940–2015) site-specific environmental installation, Marsh Ruins (1981), once stood five feet tall (Figure 1). Now, its three boulder-like mounds sink into the wetland banks of the Marshes of Glynn in…
National Museum of African American History and Culture Celebrates Black History Month | Smithsonian…
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) commemorates Black History Month with wide-reaching programs that elevate the theme of “African Americans and the Arts,” using art as a platform for…
Smithsonian Curators To Collect 2024 Presidential Campaign Memorabilia | Smithsonian Institution
As the 2024 presidential election season speeds up with caucuses and primaries in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, political history curators from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History will be on the road…
“From the Deep: In the Wake of Drexciya with Ayana V. Jackson” Extended to Jan. 6, 2025, at National…
“From the Deep: In the Wake of Drexciya with Ayana V. Jackson” will now be on display at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art until Jan. 6, 2025. The exhibition, which imagines a powerful underwater world of African…
National Museum of African American History and Culture Presents “gOD-Talk: Reimagining Faith in the…
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) is launching a multi-city film screening tour of the documentary film, gOD-Talk: Reimagining Faith in the 21st Century, including panel discussions…
Photography without Pictures
1. Carrots, Lemons and Photographs“The question ‘Where Is The Photograph?’ presupposes that we have lost sight of photography or that photography is somehow lost; that it has lost a direction perhaps or that we do not find it where it…
New Findings in Football Players May Aid the Future Diagnosis and Study of Chronic Traumatic…
Posted on January 18th, 2024 by Dr. Monica M. Bertagnolli
A new study found injuries…
New Study Reveals Evidence of an Ice-Rich Layered Deposit on Mars | Smithsonian Institution
Findings from a recently published paper led by Smithsonian senior scientist emeritus Thomas R. Watters reveal evidence that the deposits of the vast Medusae Fossae Formation (MFF) may contain a significant volume of water ice. The…
Inspiring Picasso | The Art Institute of Chicago
By <a href="https://www.artic.edu/authors/54/jay-a-clarke" rel="author">Jay A. Clarke</a> and <a href="https://www.artic.edu/authors/105/emily-ziemba" rel="author">Emily Ziemba</a>
The work, Head of a…
Learning to Speak Chinese: Defining the Sino-American Film Paradigm
1. IntroductionThe opening sequence of Shang-Chi and the Legend of Ten Rings (2021) begins 1000 years ago. We linger on a battle standard emblazoned with the Ten Rings insignia before pulling away to survey a horseman army led by the…
Toast for a Cause | MPTF
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