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• Getting Below the Surface: On American Painters and Their Paints

  

  John Singleton Copley's Mrs. George Watson Somewhere between the letters PhD and CSI lives the amazing work of painting conservators. Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• The Art of Video Games Triumph!

  

  A montage of the various activities that took place at GameFest (click on montage for larger image). The opening weekend for The Art of Video Games exhibition... Read more

  Posted on 27 March 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE, GAMING, TECH

• The 2012 Edition of American Pictures

  

  Alli Jessing, Joint Programs Coordinator for the Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery, fills us in on our upcoming lecture series,... Read more

  Posted on 22 March 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• What's American Art Doing in a High School English Class?

  

  Victoria Lichtendorf joined American Art in 2009 as the Clarice Smith Education Manager. Working with Clarice Smith Education team member, Adrienne Gayoso, she... Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• GameFest: Don't Forget the Exhibition!

  

  Exhibition-goers walk past Nam June Paik's Electronic Superhighway (second photo). The American Art Museum will be highlighting the work of video art pioneer... Read more

  Posted on 17 March 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• GameFest: Chun-Li

  

  GameFest attendee dressed as Chun Li from the video game Street Fighter II. The Street Fighter series released by Capcom in 1987 is one of the best-selling vide... Read more

  Posted on 17 March 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• GameFest: A Conversation with Hideo Kojima

  

  Video game fans are legendary. The audience shows its excitement at hearing Hideo Kojima speak (inset, with The Art of Video Games curator Chris Melissinos). Read more

  Posted on 17 March 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Let the GameFest Begin!

  

  The Art of Video Games opened yesterday and as part of our opening festivities GameFest is well underway this weekend. We will be posting images throughout the... Read more

  Posted on 17 March 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Meet The Art of Video Games Curator

  The Art of Video Games exhibition opens TOMORROW! We asked the curator, Chris Melissinos, about the exhibition, and what he hopes people will experience when... Read more

  Posted on 15 March 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• GameFest Highlight: King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters

  

  Alli Jessing, Joint Programs Coordinator for the Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery, gives us a peek at our upcoming screening of Set... Read more

  Posted on 13 March 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Q and Art: Folk Art

  

  This post is part of an ongoing series on Eye Level: "Q and Art" and is the successor to our series "The Best of Ask Joan of Art. Read more

  Posted on 07 March 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Picture This: Conservation Lab Examines Community's Art

  

  Conservator Helen Ingalls examines a Louise Nevelson sculpture. American Art holds monthly conservation clinics in its Lunder Conservation Center, during which... Read more

  Posted on 01 March 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• In This Case: Frame of Reference

  

  Frames displayed in the Luce Foundation Center What's in a frame? More than a painting, as I discovered after talking to Martin Kotler, frames conservator for... Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Behind the Scenes: The Moving of a Sculpture

  

  John Scott's Thornbush Blues Totem Thornbush Blues Totem by John Scott will be featured in our upcoming exhibition, African American Art: Harlem Renaissance,... Read more

  Posted on 22 February 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• New Acquisition: Abstract Landscape by Felrath Hines

  

  Felrath Hines's Abstract Landscape When you hear the name Felrath Hines, you may at first say "Who?" but after viewing some of his work, including the recently... Read more

  Posted on 15 February 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• "Getting My Art on . . ." at Luce

  

  Kristina Bilonick demonstrates how to silkscreen at a recent Luce Artist Talk. "Getting my art on . . ." That's what one visitor said she liked to do when she... Read more

  Posted on 09 February 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Annie Leibovitz's State of the Union

  

  Annie Leibovitz, Plano, Illinois, 2011. © Annie Leibovitz, 2011 On Tuesday, January 24, a couple of hours before the president delivered his address to Congress... Read more

  Posted on 07 February 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE, PHOTOGRAPHY

• The Making of The Art of Video Games

  

  Fabrication is underway for the 20 "genre kiosks" for The Art of Video Games exhibition. The Art of Video Games exhibition opens in less than two months (on... Read more

  Posted on 03 February 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Picture This: The Winners of the Renwick Postcard Contest

  

  Top: the winning postcard of our Renwick 40th Anniversary postcard contest by Becca Kallem. Bottom: Our runner-up entry is by Joanna Barnum. Read more

  Posted on 01 February 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• The Art of Video Games: Announcing GameFest

  

  Join us for the documentary The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters To celebrate the opening of The Art of Video Games exhibition, we will be holding three... Read more

  Posted on 26 January 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE