Hosted by the museum’s director, Kim Sajet, PORTRAITS explores art, biography, history and identity.

A Smithsonian curator reflects back on the artistic legend, a "Renaissance man" with 28 Grammys to his name, who died Sunday ...

The pachyderm, named Kamala, was suffering from osteoarthritis when zoo staff chose to euthanize her ...

When fishermen found the endangered loggerhead sea turtle off Vancouver Island in February, she was listlessly floating in a ...

Before arriving in North America, the species is believed to have invaded South American rivers through ballast water—the ...

In the Jim Crow South, activists became martyrs at the hands of white racists, all for the just cause of using the vote to ...

Recently, SAAM acquired a “Wobbulator” built by Nam June Paik and Shuya Abe for its Nam June Paik Archive and were able to ...

In collaboration with USA TODAY, “America’s Veterans: Honor, Service, and Sacrifice” is a tribute to veterans—covering ...

A "staggering array" of markings have been hiding in plain sight carved into the walls of Gainsborough Old Hall, a 500-year-old home in Lincolnshire, England ...

In the late 19th century, city officials turned the final resting place for 10,000 souls into what's now Greenwich Village’s ...

Texts like the "Sortes Astrampsychi" promised insights on clients' love lives, career prospects, financial woes and families ...

A new exhibition spotlights the Spanish artist’s printmaking talents, which he began honing in his 20s. In the decades that ...