ICYMI: Highlights from the week that was September 28 – October 2, 2020
No one can keep up with everything, so let us do it for you. We’ll gather the top Smithsonian stories from across the country and around the world each week so you’ll never be at a loss about what’s happening in our world.
Exciting news this week as we learn that the new panda cub and the new director of NMAAHC are both boys. Only one of them is also a distinguished poet and author.
This is a sampling of approximately 3,380 media clips covering the Smithsonian.
Kevin Young Named NMAAHC Director
Kevin Young Named Director Of National Museum Of African American History And Culture
National Public Radio – September 30, 2020
Poet Kevin Young Named Director of National Museum of African American History and Culture
ART News – October 1, 2020
Smithsonian’s African American museum names poet Kevin Young as its new director
Chicago Sun-Times – September 30, 2020
Smithsonian taps N.Y. cultural director to lead African American museum
The Washington Post – September 30, 2020
The Art Newspaper – Poet and author to lead National Museum of African American History and Culture
The New York Times – Kevin Young, Poet and Author, Is Named to Lead African American Museum
Art and Design
Top Designers Strut Their Stuff at Cooper Hewitt Gala
Smithsonian.com – October 2, 2020
The Biggest Exhibition of First Lady Portraits Ever Assembled Is Coming to the National Portrait Gallery in DC
Artnet – September 30, 2020
In Pre-Debate Online Fundraiser, Kamala Harris Talks Contemporary Art
Bloomberg – September 29, 2020
The New York Times – National Portrait Gallery Show to Bring First Ladies into Focus
Coronavirus and Reopening
Smithsonian lays off 237 as covid-19 continues to limit operations
The Washington Post – October 1, 2020
Some Smithsonian museums reopen with restrictions
Wusa9 – September 27, 2020
The pandemic has devastated downtown D.C. Some fear the damage is permanent.
The Washington Post – September 26, 2020
Panda Cub
‘Plump,’ 1-Month-Old Panda Cub at National Zoo Is Now ‘Almost as Round as it Is Long’
People.com – September 28, 2020
National Zoo panda cub gets its first vet checkup
The Washington Post – September 27, 2020
Science and Technology
Can We Still Go to Mars?
The Atlantic – October 1, 2020
Everything Scientists Know So Far about the First Interstellar Objects Ever Detected
Scientific American – September 30, 2020
The first black hole ever photographed now appears to be “wobbling”
CBS News – September 25, 2020
Various Subjects
Construction worker killed at Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum
The Washington Post – September 28, 2020
WSJ – ‘The Jefferson Bible’ Review_ The Gospel, Sans Miracles
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Posted: 6 October 2020
