Many Wests is an exhibition focused on what gets left out of stories traditionally told about the American West. Visions of Anglo Americans bravely settling the landscape originate, as we learn from the exhibition’s didactic material, with the U.S. government’s policy of unhalted territorial expansion beginning at the end of the seventeenth century.
In a mid-June press release, the Smithsonian American Art Museum (henceforth referred to as "the Smithsonian") announced a new exhibit called Musical Thinking: New Vid.
A new Smithsonian American Art Museum show surveys the work of Black, Asian American, Indigenous, LGBTQ+ and Latinx artists who have lived in the region