Here are some links to some other pieces I’ve written recently:

  • A slave ship found off the coast of South Africa has artifacts that will come to the Smithsonian’s new National Museum of African American History and Culture next year.
  • A National Symphony Orchestra violist plays once a year plays an instrument made by her grandfather, who made his first instrument while in a German World War II prison camp.
  • An interview with the guitarist from the band The Decemberists.
  • A review of the play “The Shipment” at Forum Theatre in Silver Spring.
  • Songs you didn’t think were about Vietnam, from an exhibit at the Newseum.
  • The first U.S. exhibit by artist Yasou Kuniyoshi in the U.S. in 25 at the Smithsonian Museum of American Art.
  • Behind the big new IMAX screen in Chantilly.
  • Exhibit of Vanessa Bell’s Bloomsbury book cover designs at the national Museum for Women in the Arts.