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• Hacking the Museum

  

  Last weekend, the Smithsonian American Art Museum opened up its doors and its data to a group of enthusiastic hackers. We were looking for help re-imagining... Read more

  Posted on 21 November 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Clarice Smith Lecture: Richard Lacayo on the Art of Growing Older

  

  Edward Hopper's People in the Sun Time magazine art critic Richard Lacayo spoke the other evening on the work and lives of aging artists as the second speaker i... Read more

  Posted on 13 November 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Symposium: American Art in Dialogue with Africa and Its Diaspora

  

  Kathleen Joyce, intern in American Art's Research and Scholars Center, recaps our symposium American Art in Dialogue with Africa and its Diaspora made possible... Read more

  Posted on 07 November 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Picture This: Día De Los Muertos: American Art's Day of the Dead Celebration

  

  There's nothing like a skeleton face for Día del los Muertos/Day of the Dead. Photo by Bruce Guthrie Photos We had a great time at the Day of the Dead Family Da... Read more

  Posted on 05 November 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Five Questions with Handi-hour Coordinator Katie Crooks

  

  Katie Crooks coordinates the quarterly craft program Handi-hour at the American Art Museum's Renwick Gallery. The Renwick Gallery will close for renovation in... Read more

  Posted on 01 November 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Luce Foundation Center's Local Artist Talks: The Art of Movement

  

  Next up in our Luce Local Artist Talk series, presented with CulturalDC, is choreographer and dancer Sarah Ewing. Ewing, who hails from Australia, is currently ... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• A Closer Look at Our America: Jorge Soto Sánchez

  

  Michelle Sullivan is second-year graduate fellow in Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation and spent this summer at the Lunder... Read more

  Posted on 29 October 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Open Today: Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art

  

  Death of Rubén Salazar by Frank Romero We've been really busy getting everything ready and are excited to announce that the exhibition Our America: The Latino... Read more

  Posted on 25 October 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Four Questions: Curator Nicholas Bell Discusses A Measure of the Earth: The...

  

  Debrah Dunner, curatorial assistant at our Renwick Gallery, interviewed Nicholas Bell, The Fleur and Charles Bresler Curator of American Craft and Decorative... Read more

  Posted on 23 October 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Teresita Fernández: Bamboo Cinema, Blind Landscape, and Stacked Waters

  

  Teresita Fernández's Nocturnal (Horizon Line). Click image for larger view. Teresita Fernández's Nocturnal (Horizon Line), installed in the third floor gallerie... Read more

  Posted on 21 October 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Smithsonian Archives Month: Finding a Painting of Yourself in Our Archives

  

  October is Archives Month and this year blogs across the Smithsonian will highlight "true stories" about their collections and give an inside look at the... Read more

  Posted on 30 September 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Luce Unplugged: Improvised Compositions

  

  One of the coolest things to recently come out of the museum's Luce Foundation Center is our ongoing music collaboration with the Washington City Paper. Managin... Read more

  Posted on 26 September 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Our America: Preparing Pepón Osorio's El Chandelier for Exhibition

  

  Dawn Planas, a graduate conservation student at the University of Delaware, and an intern in the Lunder Conservation Center's objects lab, recently assisted wit... Read more

  Posted on 24 September 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Meet Kerry James Marshall

  Artists often visit the American Art Museum to give a lecture, meet with staff, or to attend the opening of an exhibition. When they do, we like to grab them (i... Read more

  Posted on 19 September 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Take 5: Jazz and the Civil Rights Movement

  

  Drummer and Composer Nasar Abadey is the founder, leader and driving force of SUPERNOVA®. He will be performing "Jazz and the Civil Rights Movement" at... Read more

  Posted on 17 September 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Preparing for Our America, Close to Home: Muriel Hasbun and Washington D.C.'s...

  

  Latino art is commonly associated with the most recognizable cultural groups with deep roots in the United States--Chicanos, Puerto Ricans and Cuban Americans. Read more

  Posted on 12 September 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Seeing Things (12): Two Bathers

  

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

  Posted on 10 September 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• The Farm Workers’ Altar is Prepared for Exhibition

  

  Morgan Nau, Conservation Kress Fellow, recently treated Emanuel Martinez's Farm Workers' Altar. The sculpture will be featured in the exhibition Our America: Th... Read more

  Posted on 06 September 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• American Art in Dialogue with Africa and Its Diaspora

  

  Amelia Goerlitz, fellowship and academic Program coordinator for American Art, talks about our upcoming symposium "American Art in Dialogue with Africa and its... Read more

  Posted on 03 September 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Silent Film With an Emphasis on Sound

  

  On August 31st, acclaimed composer and pianist Andrew E. Simpson will perform the world premiere of his original score for William Wellman's riveting story of... Read more

  Posted on 29 August 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE