How war has been reported from the mid-19th century to the present, in words and photographs, is the subject of this exhibit. Included are front pages, newsreels, and radio and television broadcasts by, among others, Edward R. Murrow, Ernest Hemingway, and Christiane Amanpour. This show is bound to draw huge crowds here and at New York's Whitney Museum, its next stop. They'll unveil their new, improved late-Cretaceous dinosaur on May 24. Modeled from scans of genuine triceratops and re-created digitally, this new replica is considered more accurate than its predecessor.
Words are of great importance here, but so are the ways they are bound together.
Grandma Moses used to sell her paintings along with her homemade jam. Now her work is an exhibit at the National Museum of Women in the Arts. May 6 from 1 to 3 PM, kids may try their hand at painting landscapes. The program is free, but space is limited. Deskbound panda lovers can watch the bears at pandas.si.edu .