Field Operations, the landscape architecture firm best known for its work on New York’s High Line, is joining the design team ...

The Smithsonian American Art Museum’s main building is located at Eighth and F streets N.W. above the Gallery Place/Chinatown Metrorail station. Hours are 11:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily (closed Dec. 25).

As the built environment expands, the role of architects and architecture in realizing goals of sustainabilty, along with human aspiration, only increases in importance. Visit the Cooper Hewitt, ...

A New York industrialist who made his fortune building railway cars, Freer traveled the globe and donated more than 9,500 pieces of American and Asian art to the Smithsonian.

The Smithsonian American Art Museum, billed as the nation’s first collection of American art, shares a building at Eighth and ...

With its spires, rotunda and colorful facade, the Arts and Industries Building is a festive relief compared with its neighbors. But restoring the Smithsonian's first museum hasn't been easy.

The head of the Tacoma Art Museum has been appointed director of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Smithsonian announced Tuesday. Stephanie Stebich succeeds Betsy Broun, who retired last ...

The oldest art museum on the National Mall is also the newest, as the Freer Gallery of Art reopened with a string of gala events October 14 and 15, after being closed nearly two years for renovation.

Left: Sam Gilliam, Swing, 1969, acrylic and aluminum on canvas, 119 5⁄8 x 283 1⁄2 in. (303.8 x 720.1 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mr. Edwin Janss, Jr., 197.Right: Alison Saar ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. commemorates its centenary in 2023 with a year’s long celebration highlighted by its inaugural Asian ...

Dalila Scruggs named Smithsonian museum’s first African-American art curator. Scruggs, who holds a doctorate in the history of art and architecture from Harvard, will gather essential pieces of ...

Deepen your knowledge of art through programs that span centuries and cultures Lauren Lyons Frida Kahlo, 1933, by Magda Pach, from Smithsonian museum collections; Taj Mahal, completed 1643, Agra ...