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Five Things You Had to See Online This Week

March 24, 2018Arts, Culture & Media

The best song of the decade (so far), the Smithsonian makes GIFs, Nick Offerman recites reddit, Breaking Bad meets Seinfeld, and Lauryn Hill sings about Ferguson.

Conservator Ariel O’Connor uses X-ray fluorescence spectrometry to determine what metal alloy was used to construct the port engine of the Enterprise model

Boldly going where no TV prop has gone before

January 17, 2018Arts

Native American musicians and the ‘Rumble’ beginnings of rock

August 4, 2017Arts

A visitor takes a "selfie" in front of art exhibit "Circle Uncircled" by artist Rahul Kumar.

You can bring your camera to see the art, but leave that selfie stick at home

March 9, 2015Arts

The $2 billion remake of the Smithsonian in DC plans to use skylights to showcase art displayed underground.

A Danish architect gets the nod to remake ‘the backyard of the nation’

November 28, 2014Arts

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