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• Luce Unplugged: Five Questions with DTMD

  

  The Walking Sticks performs at a previous Luce Unplugged Showcase Mark your calendars, another Luce Unplugged Community Showcase is upon us! Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2014 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Ralph Fasanella: Lest We Forget

  

  American Art's latest exhibition, Ralph Fasanella: Lest We Forget, opens tomorrow, May 2 and runs through August 3, 2014. Leslie Umberger, curator of folk and... Read more

  Posted on 01 May 2014 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Watching Watch This!

  

  American Art's Watch This! (from Bill Viola's Fall Into Paradise) As part of the museum's new after work series of curator talks focusing on the permanent... Read more

  Posted on 25 April 2014 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Five Questions: Celebrating The First Lady of Song’s Birthday

  

  The American Art Museum is celebrating Ella Fitzgerald's birthday, April 25, with a special tribute concert in the museum's Kogod Courtyard. Read more

  Posted on 22 April 2014 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Smithsonian Horticulturalists Talk About American Art's Flora

  

  Melanie Pyle and Joel Lemp are horticulturists with Smithsonian Gardens, and they lead tours through the garden growing in American Art's Kogod Courtyard. Read more

  Posted on 17 April 2014 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Picture This: Spring, Cherry Blossoms, and Family

  

  The Onoe Rye Dance group performs at our Cherry Blossom Family Day. Spring has arrived (well, I'm not sure it's made up its mind just yet). Read more

  Posted on 15 April 2014 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Picture This: Our America Travels to The Frost Art Museum

  

  At of the opening reception for Our America at the Frost Art Museum Last week American Art's exhibition Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art opened... Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2014 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• April Gornik: Cloudy with a Chance of Clouds

  

  April Gornik's Virga The weather in American Art's Lincoln Gallery has gotten a bit cloudier, thanks to the addition of April Gornik's 1992 painting, Virga. Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2014 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Pop Art Prints: A Closer Look at James Rosenquist

  

  Pop Art Prints has just opened in American Art's graphic arts galleries. The installation showcases thirty-seven works from the museum's extensive holdings of... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2014 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Bill Viola's The Fall into Paradise

  

  Bill Viola's The Fall into Paradise Most people, if they're going to fall anywhere in the vicinity of paradise, are likely to fall from it. Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2014 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• In This Case: Visitor's Choice #2

  

  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 27 March 2014 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Conservation: Paint, Tape, and Sardines

  

  Jessica Ford is a graduate intern in paintings conservation at the Lunder Conservation Center. She is completing her graduate work at the Winterthur program at... Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2014 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• In This Case: One More Snow Day

  

  Winter paintings in the Luce Foundation's Case 38a Spring arrives today! And most people can't wait to shed their layers and bask in the sweet sunlight. Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2014 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Five Questions: Women in Jazz

  

  Leigh Pilzer is one of the best and busiest saxophonists in the DC area. She will be part of the Washington Women in Jazz Festival Quintet performing on the Tak... Read more

  Posted on 18 March 2014 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Preserving William H. Johnson’s Works of Art on Paper

  

  Im Chan, Smithsonian paper conservation fellow, examines William H. Johnson's Induction Center. As a Smithsonian Institution Fellow in Paper Conservation, Im... Read more

  Posted on 13 March 2014 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Art Critic William Kloss on American Art's Roby Collection

  

  Robert Vickrey's Fear In 1952 Sara Roby established a foundation to encourage artists creating figurative works, at a time when Abstract Expressionism was the... Read more

  Posted on 12 March 2014 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Seeing Things (13): Snowflake

  

  This is the thirteenth in a series of personal observations about how people experience and explore museums. Take a look at Howard's other blog posts about... Read more

  Posted on 04 March 2014 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Picture This: A Nostalgic Handi-Hour

  

  Katie Crooks coordinates the quarterly craft program Handi-hour at the American Art Museum. Coming up: our next Handi-hour on March 6 will be a nostalgic look... Read more

  Posted on 27 February 2014 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Four Questions with the Filmmakers of Rubén Salazar: Man in the Middle

  

  Programs Coordinator Alli Jessing spoke with the filmmakers of the upcoming documentary film Rubén Salazar: Man in the Middle, which tells the story of the... Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2014 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Film Screening: Inocente

  

  On February 19, American Art will host a special screening of the acclaimed documentary short film Inocente. This program is presented in conjunction with the... Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2014 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE