Harry Selfridge, a London department store owner, may have opened the doors to more than just his retail store when he gave women a chance to power shop
For the 40th anniversary of the Oscars that made Cabaret a classic, actor Joel Grey stops by the Smithsonian for a special donation and screening
Enslaved at age 8, America's first black woman poet won her freedom with verse
Michelle Obama's modern look has a long history
Our pop culture curator Amy Henderson strolls the halls of the Old Patent Building imagining the scene of Lincoln's 1865 inaugural ball
The stage is set. Enter Martha Levinson, a character described as rich, crass and brassy.
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The idyllic scenes of the dreamy holiday tune were painted by a Russian Jewish immigrant named Israel Baline, better known as Irving Berlin
Artist Everett Raymond Kinstler's portrait of the legendary performer Christopher Plummer joins the collection as Kinstler is honored in New York City
The beloved actress takes to the stage as a witty Molly Ivins just in time for election season
It was Diana Vreeland, whose skill, imagination and discipline, defined the job of a modern fashion editor
A look back at the most-trusted man in news
Guest blogger and Portrait Gallery historian Amy Henderson reflects on the Gallery's Olympian collection
Smithsonian Folkways honors the blind folk musician who died yesterday at the age of 89
For generations immersed in social media, culture means a different thing than it did in 1940
Guest blogger and Portrait Gallery historian Amy Henderson discusses Louis Armstrong and the meaning of stardom
A curator tells of 19th-century American socialites, who like Cora Crowley, found noble husbands and flushed Britain with cash
The Portrait Gallery's Cultural Historian Amy Henderson discusses the museum's vision—to tell America's stories as "visual biography"
In a new book of poetry, a Smithsonian scholar renders his thoughts on family, nature, celebrity and anonymity
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