The piece is one of three iconic landscape paintings on loan from the Smithsonian American Art Museum at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts in Salt Lake City on Friday Oct. 25, 2019.

The artist Amy Sherald has canceled a major exhibition of her work at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, citing ...

Sherald said she backed out amid discussions of removing a painting that shows a transgender woman dressed as the Statue of ...

An artist whose work once caught national attention is stepping away from a planned Smithsonian exhibition after concerns ...

Composing Color: Paintings by Alma Thomas" explores the life of this groundbreaking artist and educator. On view at the Smithsonian American Art Museum from September 15, 2023 – June 2, 2024, the ...

Bob Ross made thousands of paintings in his career, and curiously, he often created three copies of them. Here's why.

Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser Marsh: This was one of several pieces included in the “Singing and the Silence” show that I curated in 2014.

Amy Sherald withdrew “American Sublime” from the National Portrait Gallery, saying the Smithsonian proposed replacing her ...

Monadnock No. 2, Abbott Handerson Thayer, oil on canvas, 1912 National Museum of Asian Art Full-time curators “tend to gravitate toward favorites,” Greenwold says.

The Smithsonian has awarded fellowships to 10 accomplished visual artists from an international pool of candidates as part of the 2024 Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship Program. Over the course ...

The conservators at the Smithsonian American Art Museum are called “art doctors.” They use some of the same equipment as physicians, often wear white lab coats and care for the injured.

When the Smithsonian American Art Museum opened its major retrospective of Traylor’s work in September of 2018, it would have been natural to assume all the roadblocks to enjoying his work had ...