Smithsonian’s ‘1898’ exhibit explores complex history behind U.S. expansionism

The exhibition explores the pivotal period when the United States emerged as a world power, a time of global expansion that was celebrated by many Americans and vigorously opposed by others.

Smithsonian museum exhibits winner and finalists in portrait competition

WASHINGTON – This year’s winner of the triennial Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery is artist Alison Elizabeth Taylor with her marquetry hybrid work titled “Anthony Cuts Under the Williamsburg Bridge, Morning.”  As first-prize winner,…