Credit: “A Portrait of Berenice Sarmiento Chávez” by Hugo Crosthwaite, stop-motion drawing animation (3:12 min.), 2018. Collection of the artist, courtesy of Luis De Jesus Los Angeles
Chant Avedissian (1951-2018, b. Cairo, Egypt; worked in Cairo)
The Nassa Era and Om Kalsoum
c. 1994
Mixed media on corrugated cardboard, cloth
Purchased with funds provided by the Smithsonian Collections Acquistion Program, 96-20-3
Detail, Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Gwaneum bosal). Korea, Goryeo period, ca. 1220–1285. Gilt wood and gilt copper and iron with crystal inlays. National Museum of Korea, Seoul
Billie Holiday performing on stage with her band - Paul "Vice Pres" Quinichette on tenor saxophone, Carl Drinkard on piano, Jimmy Schenck on bass and Bobby "Stix" Darden on drums at Sugar Hill, Newark, New Jersey, April, 1957.
Artist rendering of the "Textron How Things Fly Gallery," slated to open in 2022 at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC. Credit: Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum
Poster, Hydrodynamics, L’Atome au Service de la Paix (Atoms for Peace), 1955; Designed by Erik Nitsche (Swiss, 1908–1998) for General Dynamics Corporation (Falls Church, Virginia, U.S.); Offset lithograph on paper mounted on canvas; Gift of Arthur Cohen and Daryl Otte in memory of Bill Moggridge, 2013-42-9.
Save Our Earth, 2009; designed by Joanna Aizenberg (Russian, b. 1960) and Wim Noorduin (Dutch, b. 1980); synthetic cilia demonstrating the principle of self-assembly around a spherical nanosphere and illustrated through scanning electron micrograph with false color; each synthetic cilium is approximately the size of a naturally occurring cilium (200 nanometers in diameter); courtesy of Aizenberg Lab and Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University.
