Nora McGreevy
Smithsonian Magazine
Chicago, IL, United States
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Why Did This Artist Lock Lips With Ancient Works of Indigenous Mexican Art?
Pepx Romero kissed and licked centuries-old archaeological wonders to raise awareness of the ongoing, contested sale of pre-Hispanic treasures → Read More
A Shipwreck, a Robot and an Archival Treasure Hunt Reveal the Diverse History of the Whaling Industry
Free Black Americans and Native Americans once worked on the "Industry," a whaling ship whose wreck was recently identified in the Gulf of Mexico → Read More
Betty Reid Soskin, Oldest National Park Service Ranger, Retires at 100
As an NPS employee, she promoted the stories of African American people and women of color who contributed to the home front effort during WWII → Read More
Leap Into the Surprising, Art-Filled Life of Beatrix Potter in a New Exhibition
The beloved author of "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" also wrote diaries in code, sketched fungi and raised prize-winning sheep → Read More
U.S. Will Rename 660 Mountains, Rivers and More to Remove Racist Word
A task force is identifying new names for sites on federal land that bear a derogatory term referring to Indigenous women → Read More
A Bold New Show at the Met Explores A Single Sculpture
The exhibition probes the paradoxes of Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux's "Why Born Enslaved!," the most famous depiction of a Black woman in 19th-century art → Read More
With a Stolen Fragment Restored, This Stunning 17th-Century Tapestry Is Made Whole
Spanish authorities had all but given up the search for the missing piece, which was lost in a heist carried out by notorious art thief "Erik the Belgian" → Read More
Maryland Removes Its Last Confederate Monument on Public Land
Workers removed the Talbot Boys Statue on Monday after years of pressure from the local community → Read More
Rarely Seen Paintings by J.R.R. Tolkien Portray a Lush 'Lord of the Rings' Landscape
The Tolkien Estate recently published a trove of rare, unpublished art by the famed fantasy author on its website → Read More
You Know Artemisia Gentileschi—Now Learn About These Other Renaissance Women Artists
An exhibition on view at the Detroit Institute of Arts focuses on Italian women artists who held their own in the male-dominated art world → Read More
Here Are the World's 25 Most Endangered Cultural Heritage Sites
The World Monument Fund's list includes sites in the Maldives, Pakistan, the United States and elsewhere, but was finalized before the war in Ukraine → Read More
At 85 Years Old, Longtime Detroit Artist Gets a Show of Her Own
A new exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts spotlights Shirley Woodson, an arts educator and longtime fixture of the city's vibrant Black arts scene → Read More
A Tantalizing Clue Emerges in the Unsolved Gardner Museum Art Heist
Boston police officers tell local media that the 1991 murder of Jimmy Marks might be linked to modern history's biggest art heist → Read More
What to Know About Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's Historic Nomination to the Supreme Court
Jackson, a 51-year-old Harvard graduate and former public defender, would be the first Black woman on the Court → Read More
Black Dolls Tell a Story of Play—and Resistance—in America
A new exhibition traces the toys' history from handmade cloth figures to an American Girl character → Read More
What to Expect From the U.K.'s First LGBTQ Museum
The museum, set to open in the spring, will reside in King's Cross, a London neighborhood with a rich queer history → Read More
Newly Minted Maya Angelou Quarters Enter Circulation and Make History
Here’s how to find one of the new U.S. quarters—the first to feature a Black woman → Read More
Archaeologists Discover—and Start to Decode—Rare Medieval Runes
One of the newly unearthed objects, an inscribed bone, is the first of its kind found in Oslo in decades → Read More
How Sidney Poitier Rewrote the Script for Black Actors in Hollywood
Smithsonian curators reflect on the legacy of the late Poitier, who starred in 'In the Heat of the Night' and 'Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner' → Read More
Scotland Considers Pardon for Thousands of Accused 'Witches'
Advocates are calling on leaders to exonerate the thousands of women and men targeted in witch hunts during the 16th through 18th centuries → Read More