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• James Castle: No Place Like Home

  

  "Untitled: The Art of James Castle" opens today at American Art and features fifty-four works by the artist that were recently acquired by the museum. Read more

  Posted on 26 September 2014 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Eric Fischl: Painting Stories

  

  Having titled his recent memoir Bad Boy: My Life on and off the Canvas, Eric Fischl kicked off this season's annual Clarice Smith Distinguished Lectures in... Read more

  Posted on 24 September 2014 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• American Muralist Tom Lea

  

  On September 24, the Smithsonian American Art Museum will co-host a national conference that examines the importance of preserving WPA-era murals using the... Read more

  Posted on 23 September 2014 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Lunder Conservation Center: Revealing A Drawing Through Preservation

  

  Our art conservators discovered a drawing on the back of a William H. Johnson artwork during the conservation process. Read more

  Posted on 18 September 2014 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Artist Lilly Martin Spencer

  

  Erin Benz interned at American Art's Luce Foundation Center this summer. While here, she took the time to write about one of her favorite artists in our... Read more

  Posted on 16 September 2014 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Luce Artist Talks: Emily Francisco

  

  You've heard of landscapes and cityscapes, but how about soundscapes? DC-based artist Emily Francisco creates these immersive audio environments and she'll... Read more

  Posted on 12 September 2014 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Throwback Thursday: Han's Hofmann's Fermented Soil

  

  Fermented Soil by Hans Hofmann contains such fresh joy and vigor it is hard to believe it was painted by a man in his mid-eighties. It swings like a jazz sextet. Read more

  Posted on 11 September 2014 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• From Public Library to Public Gallery, Marvin Beerbohm's Automotive Industry...

  The polished machinery featured in Marvin Beerbohm's "Automotive Industry" mural will be shimmering a little brighter now that the mural has been treated by... Read more

  Posted on 09 September 2014 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Celebrating Labor Day with Ralph Fasanella

  

  American Art's exhibition Ralph Fasanella: Lest We Forget will open at the American Folk Art Museum in his home city of New York on September 2, 2014,... Read more

  Posted on 28 August 2014 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Art Conservation: A Look Inside Pio Casimiro Bacener's Autorretrato

  

  Pamela Johnson, a Graduate Fellow at American Art's Lunder Conservation Center looks very closely, using X-radiography and infrared at the work of Pio Casimiro... Read more

  Posted on 26 August 2014 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Luce Design Series: Five Questions with Tanis Gray, Knitwear Designer

  

  This Saturday, August 23rd, from 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m., the Luce Foundation Center's Design Series will host a talk by Tanis Gray, local knitwear designer and... Read more

  Posted on 21 August 2014 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Plastics in Pop Art Prints

  

  American Art curatorial assistant, Nina Williams writes about the use of plastics in Pop Art printmaking. Our exhibition Pop Art Prints is on display until... Read more

  Posted on 19 August 2014 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Picture This: Dowager in a Wheelchair by Philip Evergood

  

  If you haven't seen American Art's exhibition Modern American Realism: The Sara Roby Collection, it's time do come on down to the museum. The show closes this... Read more

  Posted on 14 August 2014 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Five Questions for Andrew Greene, Director of the Peacherine Ragtime Society...

  

  On August 16th at 2 p.m., the Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery will present the next installment in our Cine-Concert series. Read more

  Posted on 12 August 2014 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Five Questions with Meg Saligman, Muralist and Conservation Advocate

  

  Meg Saligman is an award winning artist at the forefront of the contemporary mural movement in Philadelphia. She is recognized worldwide for her work with light... Read more

  Posted on 07 August 2014 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Surf's Up at American Art!

  

  The dog days of summer and the beach beckons but can't get out of town? Well, American Art can help with that. Read more

  Posted on 05 August 2014 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Family Ties: Marc Fasanella on His Father's Painting Family Supper

  

  On the occasion of the exhibition, Ralph Fasanella: Lest We Forget, marking the artist's one-hundredth birth anniversary, Ralph's son Marc shares his thoughts o... Read more

  Posted on 01 August 2014 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Five Questions (+2) with Stephen Vitiello: Sound Advice

  

  In honor of the Nam June Paik birthday celebration, electronic musician and sound artist Stephen Vitiello will speak in American Art's Lincoln Gallery (3rd... Read more

  Posted on 31 July 2014 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• American Art's Outdoor Sculpture Instagram Challenge

  

  This July, American Art held its first Instagram Challenge through a partnership with Restless Collective (RC), a New York-based multimedia collective... Read more

  Posted on 29 July 2014 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• In This Case: Visitor's Choice #3

  

  Getting to know some of our visitors was the inspiration for a new blog series, Visitor's Choice. In this series, we ask our regulars about their favorite... Read more

  Posted on 28 July 2014 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE