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LATEST ARTICLES ( 525 )

• Q and Art: Silhouettes

  

  This post is the first of an ongoing series on Eye Level: "Q and Art" and is the successor to our series "The Best of Ask Joan of Art." Begun in 1993, Ask Joan... Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Pilgrimage: Five Questions with Annie Leibovitz

  

  Annie Leibovitz, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, 2009, © Annie Leibovitz. From Pilgrimage (Random House, 2011) Pilgrimage is a personal journey by photographer... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Five Questions: Opera at the Renwick

  

  Washington National Opera Principal Coach for the Domingo-Cafritz Young Artists Ken Weiss provides some insider information on how he selected the artists and... Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Renwick Postcard Competition

  

  Cross stitch postcard celebrating the Renwick's 40 years by Katie Crooks. The Renwick Gallery is celebrating a milestone year in 2012, its 40th! Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• We Remember Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011)

  

  Helen Frankenthaler's Summerscene, Provincetown Helen Frankenthalter, the last of the Abstract Expressionists, died on December 27, 2011, at the age of... Read more

  Posted on 09 January 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Inventing Equality: On Patents in the Great American Hall of Wonders

  

  Margaret E. Knight, Patent Model of Machine for Making Paper Bags, 1879, U.S. Patent No. 220925, wood, brass, paper and paint, Smithsonian Institution,... Read more

  Posted on 05 January 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Seeing Double: On Multiplicity

  

  Ed Ruscha's Western Horizontal Multiplicity features contemporary prints from the museum's permanent collection. All of the prints are editions and each... Read more

  Posted on 03 January 2012 ART & DESIGN

• Picture This: The Best for the New Year

  

  John Henry Twachtman's The Brook, Greenwich, Connecticut is on view in the Renwick Gallery's Grand Salon. American Art and the Renwick Gallery are open this... Read more

  Posted on 28 December 2011 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• The People Behind the Video Games: Tommy Tallarico

  

  Tommy Tallarico Exhibition coordinator Georgina Goodlander and curator Chris Melissinos conducted interviews with video game designers, developers, writers,... Read more

  Posted on 20 December 2011 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Stumbled Upon Treasures

  

  The Santa Cruz Museum's Carranza Collection I am a huge museum nerd. Well, this shouldn't be too much of a surprise since I work in an art museum! I love findin... Read more

  Posted on 15 December 2011 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Mousetrap 101: Patents and Innovation with Collector Alan Rothschild

  

  Mousetrap, 1870, John O. Kopas (Inventor), George W. Bauer (Inventor), mixed media, 10 x 8 1/2 x 9 in. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Alan and Ann... Read more

  Posted on 13 December 2011 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• New Acquisition: Introducing Carmen Herrera, American Artist

  

  Curator for Latino Art, E. Carmen Ramos, shares some of her thoughts about a recent acquisition now on view in the Lincoln Gallery on the third floor. Carmen... Read more

  Posted on 08 December 2011 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Behind the Scenes: Determining an Artwork's Provenance

  

  Sarah Gowen, American Art's Paintings Conservation Intern, gives us a behind the scenes look at how we solved a painting mystery. In 2006, the Smithsonian... Read more

  Posted on 06 December 2011 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• World AIDS Day: Homage to Still Life by Carlos Almaraz

  

  Homage to Still Life by Carlos Almaraz Ah, a walk through the museum on a chilly autumn afternoon. Lots of folks walking the corridors and looking at art. It's ... Read more

  Posted on 01 December 2011 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Multiplicity: Five Questions with Joann Moser

  

  Multiplicity opened at the Smithsonian American Art Museum on November 11 and runs to March 11, 2012. Georgina Goodlander asked the curator, Joann Moser, a few... Read more

  Posted on 29 November 2011 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Happy Thanksgiving from American Art and the Renwick Gallery!

  

  Dinner Platter (Hayes service), 1880, porcelain, made by Haviland & Co., Limoges, France, designed by 24. Theodore R. Davis, U.S. Government purchase, 1880,... Read more

  Posted on 22 November 2011 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Internet Pioneers and the Fathers of Invention

  

  Friends from way back: Steve Crocker, right, was Vinton Cerf's Best Man at his wedding. Judging by the conversation between Internet gurus Steve Crocker and... Read more

  Posted on 17 November 2011 TECH

• Take Five: Five Questions with Sandra Y. Johnson

  

  Sandra Y. Johnson and her jazz group will be performing at Take 5! on Thursday, November 17th from 5–7 p.m. in the Kogod Courtyard. Read more

  Posted on 15 November 2011 CULTURE, MUSIC

• Julie Mehretu on "Grey"

  

  Julie Mehretu's Local Calm New York-based artist, Julie Mehretu, was the third and final speaker in this year's Clarice Smith Distinguished Lectures in... Read more

  Posted on 09 November 2011 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Mt. Rushmore: Seventy Years Old and We've Got Some Early Photos

  

  Detail of Mount Rushmore (Heads of Thomas Jefferson and George Washington), photographed by Charles d'Emery, Photograph Archives, Smithsonian American Art Museu... Read more

  Posted on 02 November 2011 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE, HISTORY