The Smithsonian Photography Initiative has launched 'click! photography changes everything,' an interdisciplinary, Web-based forum at www.click.si.edu. The goal of 'click!' is to stimulate an unprecedented dialogue about the ways photography enables people to document and actively interact with the world.

Visitors to the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History can enjoy one of its most interactive and educational exhibitions to date. "Butterflies + Plants: Partners in Evolution," a new permanent exhibition, innovatively combines traditional and experiential learning to provide visitors a rare, up-close look at how butterflies and plants have evolved and diversified together for millions of years.

Visitors to the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History can enjoy one of its most interactive and educational exhibitions to date. "Butterflies + Plants: Partners in Evolution," a new permanent exhibition, innovatively combines traditional and experiential learning to provide visitors a rare, up-close look at how butterflies and plants have evolved and diversified together for millions of years.

The Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian in New York, the George Gustav Heye Center opens "Remix: New Modernities in a Post Indian World," a spirited multimedia survey of 15 emerging Native artists June 7. A joint presentation from the museum and the Heard Museum in Phoenix, the exhibition closes Sunday, Sept. 21.

The National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) recently acquired 34 documentary photographs by Cherel Ito. The two suites of works are from Ito's North American travels—one, from 1968, of Mississippi and the Ozarks, and the second, from 1968 and 1980, of various American Indian Nations. Photographs by Cherel Ito: Recent Donations to the Collection is on view at NMWA through May 25, 2008.

The Smithsonian American Art Museum is offering an array of public programs to accompany the exhibition "Color as Field: American Painting, 1950-1975," which features 39 beautiful paintings that represent one of the crowning achievements of postwar American abstract art. The Color Field school, a group that emerged in the United States in the 1950s, is characterized by its utilization of pouring, staining, spraying or painting thinned paint onto raw canvas to create vast chromatic expanses.

The National Museum of Women in the Arts will give Washington's art-going public a rare treat when it presents Louise Nevelson: Dawn's Wedding Feast through May 18, 2008.

The performance group rainpan 43 arrives at The Studio Theatre for a three-week festival of their inventive and surprising work. Washington audiences at last have the opportunity to experience not just one but three of rainpan 43's extraordinary shows: their original hit, all wear bowlers; the highly popular Amnesia Curiosa (being developed at The Studio Theatre); and their latest, machines machines machines machines machines machines machines.

The Tony Award winner for Best Play and the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play! Alan Bennett's sharply funny and touching comedy goes inside the world of a British boys' school, where two teachers (Floyd King and Simon Kendall) become rivals for the minds and hearts of eight unruly students.

At the culmination of its 25 th Anniversary, Dance/USA announces the selection of dancer and ballet master Frederic Franklin to receive the Dance/USA Honor and dance writer and scholar Anna Kisselgoff to receive the Ernie, named for the late Ian "Ernie" Horvath. The awards will be presented at the Dance/USA Honors Celebration Dinner, Wednesday, June 11, 2008 in Denver, Colorado.

Monumental color photographs explore the sublime beauty and inherent danger of the sea and its surroundings in the days following September 11, 2001 in the exhibition Richard Misrach: On the Beach, on view in the photography galleries at the National Gallery of Art from May 25 to September 1, 2008.

The leadership change in Cuba has sparked a debate in the United States as to whether there should be greater engagement and dialogue between the two estranged nations. VOA's Michael Bowman reports from Washington, some U.S. legislators, both Democrat and Republican, are warming to the idea of direct talks between Washington and Havana.