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The Smithsonian Institution's Object of the Day, November 13, 2019: Art Blakey's Drumstick
[caption id="attachment_16120" align="alignnone" width="500"] Art Blakey's Drumstick, 1947-1990, Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of Afri…
Punk rock and the fall of the Berlin Wall
It began with a handful of East Berlin teens who heard the Sex Pistols on a British military radio broadcast to troops in West Berlin, and it ended wi…
Beyoncé and the politics of looking
A close reading of Beyoncé’s Video phone illuminates the strategic interplay of subjectivities in a video that essentially disrupts and complicates…
The Smithsonian Institution's Object of the Day, October 29, 2019: Fred Becker's "Beale Street Blues"
Fred Becker, Beale Street Blues, 1937-1938, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from D.C. Public Library. “Beale Street Blues has b…
The Smithsonian Institution's Object of the Day, October 24, 2019: Grand Piano Gifted to Prince Albert from Queen Victoria, 1854
Erard grand piano Anyone who saw the PBS Masterpiece series Victoria last year knows that Prince Albert was an avid music lover and a pre…