Safety Jacket: A Mourning in Chinatown, 2018. Terence Nicholson. Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum, 2022.
This sculpture was made by artist Terence Nicholson (b. 1968), a 19th-generation disciple of the Wudang Longmen (Dragon Gate) lineage. He created this sculpture with the Kung Fu sashes recovered after the closing of his teacher's school in Chinatown. This piece introduces the Transforming Tradition section, which traces some of the relationships shaping a diverse landscape of Asian martial arts practice in the region.
Scientists cryopreserved skin samples from a starry goby, a common reef fish. The samples will undergo radiation exposure testing to prepare for biological material to be sent to the moon. Credit: Zerhan Jafar, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.
A thin slice of the ancient rocks collected from Gakkel Ridge near the North Pole, photographed under a microscope and seen under cross-polarized light. Field width ~ 14mm.
This image shows a collection of 25 new space images celebrating the Chandra X-ray Observatory's 25th anniversary. Starting from the upper left, and going across each row, the objects imaged are: Crab Nebula, Orion Nebula, The Eyes Galaxies, Cat's Paw Nebula, Milky Way's Galactic Center, M16, Bat Shadow, NGC 7469, Virgo Cluster, WR 124, G21.5-0.9, Centaurus A, Cassiopeia A, NGC 3532, NGC 6872, Hb 5, Abell 2125, NGC 3324, NGC 1365, MSH 15-52, Arp 220, Jupiter, NGC 1850, MACS J0035, SN 1987A.
This original plaster model was used to create the sculpture of Mary McLeod Bethune, which was installed in the National Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol. Credit: Collection of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, gift of Nilda Maria Comas, copyright Nilda Comas.
The "Tarantula Nebula" (officially known as 30 Doradus) is a region of active star formation located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a neighbor galaxy of the Milky Way. X-ray: NASA/CXC/Penn State Univ./L. Townsley et al.; IR: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/JWST ERO Production Team.
Credit: “Untitled” (America) (1994), Twelve parts, each: 42 light bulbs, waterproof rubber light sockets, and waterproof electrical cord. Overall dimensions vary with installation. Copyright Estate Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Courtesy Felix Gonzalez-Torres Foundation. Photo: Roberto Ruiz, Image courtesy of Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona. Installed on Las Ramblas, Barcelona, as part of Felix Gonzalez-Torres: The Politics of Relation. Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), Barcelona, Spain. 26 Mar. – 19 Sep. 2021. Cur. Tanya Barson.
