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• Gardening in the Age of the Moving Image

  

  This blog post begins a series of pieces about our film and media arts initiatives here at American Art. First up, Michael Mansfield, associate curator of film... Read more

  Posted on 30 October 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Art Critic Adam Gopnik on What Makes American Art American

  

  Taking a stab at what defines American art, Adam Gopnik, art critic at The New Yorker, spoke to a standing-room only crowd at the museum's McEvoy Auditorium,... Read more

  Posted on 25 October 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Conservation: Not Your Usual Dental Check-up

  

  Conservation Technician Susan Edwards vacuums Tiger by Felipe Archuleta You may not think about the potential dust that could collect in-between the teeth of... Read more

  Posted on 23 October 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE, HISTORY

• Aesop and the Scavenger Hunt

  

  Prizes for completing the scavenger hunt. The Luce Foundation Center has been organizing scavenger hunts throughout the space since we reopened after our... Read more

  Posted on 17 October 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Preparing for Our America: John Valadez’s Great American Streets

  

  In this blog post Curatorial Assistant Florencia Bazzano-Nelson comments on John Valadez's Two Vendors, an intense and large-scale pastel that will be featured... Read more

  Posted on 11 October 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Through a Glass, Clearly: Art Glass @50

  

  Matthew Szösz, Untitled (inflatable) No. 43, 2010, fused and inflated window glass, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Elmerina and Paul Parkman in honor... Read more

  Posted on 09 October 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• 40 Under 40: The Craft of Assisting a Curator

  

  Curatorial Assistant Debrah Dunner We sat down with Debrah Dunner, curatorial assistant at the museum's Renwick Gallery, to ask her about the experience of... Read more

  Posted on 05 October 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Picture This: A Dress to Change the World

  

  Jeff Garner shares a moment with one of his models after the American premiere of A Dress to Change the World at the Renwick Gallery, photo by Tony Brown What d... Read more

  Posted on 02 October 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Edward Hopper: Mapping the Light

  

  Edward Hopper's Ryder's House "Is there anything left to be said about Edward Hopper? Poet of light, documentarian of alienation, isolation, angst, stasis, huma... Read more

  Posted on 28 September 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• The Art of Video Games Departs!

  

  Spontaneous Art with museum staff and volunteers After more than six months on view, The Art of Video Games exhibition will be closing at the Smithsonian... Read more

  Posted on 25 September 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Introducing Paikbot!

  

  Untitled (Robot), 1992, single-channel video in robot-shaped assemblage of radio, television, and stereo system parts, with metal hardware, and additions in... Read more

  Posted on 20 September 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Picture This: Abstract Drawings

  

  Paper conservator, Kate Maynor talks about the conservation of Claire Falkenstein's Branding Have you ever thought about the way the paper fibers hold on to... Read more

  Posted on 18 September 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Showtime!

  

  Alex Minoff, The Caribbean, and Kokayi In the words of How I Met your Mother's Barney Stinson, our next Luce Unplugged is going to be, "legen . . . wait for it ... Read more

  Posted on 13 September 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Preparing for Our America: Depicting Exile

  

  Florencia Bazzano-Nelson recently joined the Smithsonian American Art Museum. A scholar of Latin American and Latino art, Bazzano-Nelson is assisting in the... Read more

  Posted on 06 September 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Why I Am Not a Painter: on Michael Goldberg's Sardines

  

  Michael Goldberg's Sardines "I am not a painter, I am a poet," begins Frank O'Hara's poem, Why I Am Not a Painter written in 1957. He continues, "Why? I think... Read more

  Posted on 30 August 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Q and Art: Abstract Expressionism

  

  This post is part of an ongoing series on Eye Level: "Q and Art," where American Art's Research department brings you interesting questions and answers about ar... Read more

  Posted on 28 August 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Acupuncture: Pitchfork Style

  

  John William "Uncle Jack" Dey's Acupuncture Pitchfork Style Amelia Cornfield was an intern in the Media and Technology Office this summer, where she worked on... Read more

  Posted on 23 August 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Heat

  

  Jacob Lawrence's Bar and Grill. These warm August afternoons often make me step inside of American Art not just to cool off, but to have an ah-ha moment with... Read more

  Posted on 21 August 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Preparing for Our America: Raphael Montañez-Ortiz Deconstructs the Western

  

  Cowboy and "Indian" Film by Raphael Montañez-Ortiz Summertime at the Smithsonian American Art Museum usually means a crop of college and graduate students to... Read more

  Posted on 14 August 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Picture This: On This Day in 1864

  

  Left: East Model room (Lincoln Gallery), 1856. Image courtesy of the Clara Barton National Historic Site, National Park Service. Right: Graffiti in the Lincoln... Read more

  Posted on 08 August 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE