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10:50 AM MYT Black artist Robert S. Duncanson’s 'Landscape With Rainbow, ' an oil on canvas painted in 1859. Photo: Smithsonian American Art Museum The official “inauguration painting” displayed at a reception inside the US Capitol today came weighted with layered symbolism. The deft choice spoke of a new administration with an insightful understanding of art’s potential power. Apparently chosen by Jill Biden, the incoming first lady, and Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) to commemorate the swearing-in ceremony, it was painted in 1859 by prominent Black artist Robert S. Duncanson (1821-1872). Th...

WASHINGTON —  For decades it has been one of the seamless but silent rituals of power transferring from one president to the next: the passing of the football on Inauguration Day. As the incoming president finishes the oath of office at the Capitol, the former president’s military aide lugging a briefcase containing the country’s nuclear war plans — known as the “football” — hands it over to a new uniformed aide, who takes up position near the just-inaugurated commander in chief. Unnoticed to most, the president’s power to wage war in an instant has changed hands. But this y...