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The South Side Community Art Center’s $15 million rehabilitation and expansion project will build upon an eighty-five-year ...
The Smithsonian represents a pinnacle of official US efforts to represent pasts that are painful and violent as well as beautiful and accomplished.
"American Sublime," the sweeping Amy Sherald survey, arrives at the Whitney Museum in New York, bringing together almost 50 ...
From its beginning in Wright’s Detroit basement, the museum has cultivated increased visibility for all African Americans by ...
Kevin Young, an award-winning writer and head of the National Museum of African American History and Culture since 2021, has stepped down, the Smithsonian said.
Kevin Young, who has led the National Museum of African American History and Culture since 2021, went on leave before the ...
Sherald’s oeuvre so far is singular in its advancement of the American Realist tradition of artists such as Edward Hopper, ...
The memo from Lonnie G. Bunch III, the first African American to lead the Smithsonian Institution, was as much a message of reassurance as a call to vigilance.
Kevin Young, who took the helm in 2021, has been absent from his position since March 14 for an “undetermined period.” ...
The president’s executive order demanding change at the institution presents a perilous test for Lonnie G. Bunch III, its ...
Poet Kevin Young, director since 2021 of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture, has been ...
Kevin Young, director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, is on personal leave amid political scrutiny and calls to reshape national cultural narratives.