Arts Post Archive: Smithsonian
Smithsonian pledges to open an American merchandise shop
The skirmish over product origins between the National Museum of American History and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) was settled this week when the museum promised to open a gift shop devoted to made-in-America products. Sanders had expressed his displeasure at...
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Jacqueline Trescott
| March 11, 2011; 9:00 AM ET |
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Smithsonian dispatches curator to collect from Wisconsin debates
The National Museum of American History, always on the outlook for current materials, has dispatched a curator to Wisconsin to judge whether signs and buttons from the ongoing labor debates are museum-worthy. Barbara Klark Smith, a curator with the museum's...
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Jacqueline Trescott
| March 8, 2011; 6:10 PM ET |
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Smithsonian Snapshot focuses on suffrage movement
"Smithsonian Snapshot" continues rumaging through the millions of Smithsonian artifacts this week with a look at a suffragist's sash. The yellow sash was worn by supporters of the women's movement and was printed with the words "Votes for Women." March...
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Jacqueline Trescott
| March 1, 2011; 2:00 PM ET |
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Museum acquires rare Baldwin photographs
James Baldwin feeding pigeons in Istanbul. (Sedat Pakay, 1965) A collection of photographs of James Baldwin, one of the leading literary figures of the 20th Century, has been acquired by the National Museum of African American History and Culture....
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Jacqueline Trescott
| February 24, 2011; 9:00 AM ET |
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President's budget reduces almost all cultural funding
For the proposed federal budget for fiscal 2012, released Monday, almost all of the agencies and museums that receive government dollars saw their checkbooks trimmed. The budget sent to Capitol Hill by the administration is a starting point for discussions...
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Jacqueline Trescott
| February 14, 2011; 8:30 PM ET |
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President suggests reductions for almost all cultural funding
In the administration's fiscal 2012 budget request, released Monday, the National Endowment for the Arts was penciled in for $146.2 million. That number, which now has to be debated by Congress, represents a 13 percent reduction from the fiscal 2010...
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Jacqueline Trescott
| February 14, 2011; 12:15 PM ET |
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