Teen artists portrayed their lives - some adults didn't want to see the full picture [More inside] (www.npr.org)

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https://www.npr.org/2025/07/28/nx-s1-5463593/teen-art-smithsonian-folklife-festival

"What is it like to be a teen right now?" Young artists explored that question for two different exhibitions of their work this summer. But on the National Mall, their work was deemed too political.

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Falling by artist Betty Shanefelter is one of the works in The Teen Experience, a show at the American University Museum in partnership with the Museum of Contemporary American Teenagers in Washington, D.C., until Aug. 10.

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[-] footfaults@lemmygrad.ml 31 points 5 days ago

Palestinian exception to free speech strikes again

[-] stink@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 5 days ago

The SmithSonian should burn down, every building.

[-] footfaults@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 4 days ago

Maybe I'm a lib but they have a lot of important stuff so I think we just need to deal with the people in the institution that are causing this travesty.