Photo: National Portrait Gallery-Smithsonian Institution In this wooden sculpture by Marshall D. Rumbaugh, Rosa Parks is held by two policemen. Parks was arrested after refusing to give up her seat to a white male bus rider in Montgomery, Alabama. On...
Most histories of African Americans at sea focus on slave ships, which transported their human cargo from Africa to the United States or other parts of the world. But a new exhibit in the port city of Philadelphia expands that story to reveal the su...
By George Dwyer Washington 28 March 2008 The city of Washington is widely known for a keen appreciation of the social arts: Politics, for example or the fine art of diplomacy. But an important development in the history of the visual arts had its ori...
By Zulima Palacio Washington 25 February 2008 A permanent, live butterfly exhibit recently open at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington. And for the first time, the museum is charging visitors an admission price. But as VOA producer Z...
By Lauren Comiteau Amsterdam 19 February 2008 The Taliban's destruction of the giant Buddhas of Bamiyan in March 2001 was the most dramatic expression of their mission to obliterate all idolatrous images from Afghanistan's pre-Islamic past. Along wit...
By Chris Simkins Washington, DC 08 February 2008 February is National Black History Month in the United States - an annual celebration that promotes and highlights the positive accomplishments made by people of African descent. VOA Correspondent Chri...
By Mona Ghuneim New York 27 November 2007 The Marquis de Lafayette first came to the United States from France at the age of 19 to help the Americans in their fight for independence. Now an exhibition in New York pays tribute to the lasting impact th...
By Zulima Palacio Washington 08 November 2007 The American University Museum in Washington. D.C. is hosting an exhibit (through December 30, 2007) that depicts the abuse of prisoners by American soldiers at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. The exhibit by C...
By Carolyn Turner Washington 25 September 2007 The Smithsonian Institution's Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, in partnership with the National Museum of African Art, recently presented an exhibit of 300 objects produced by cultures touched by Portugal's ea...
By Suzanne Chislett London 16 August 2007 Ten thousand people have already come to see an exhibition featuring Islamic masterpieces at the Ismaili Centre in London. And the exhibition just opened in the middle of July. The collection is a unique prev...