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Ava DuVernay accepted the Smithsonian’s Great Americans Medal while voicing support for the African American museum.

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Maryland Humanities will launch the Maryland tour of Spark! Places of Innovation, a Smithsonian traveling exhibition, at the ...

After art critic and photographer Max Kozloff died at 91, a New York community came together to remember and to mourn.

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