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• The Art of Video Games: Five Questions for Chris Melissinos

  

  Last month, we asked people to submit questions for Chris Melissinos, curator of The Art of Video Games exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. We... Read more

  Posted on 18 August 2011 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Luce Unplugged: Five Questions with Star FK Radium

  

  Luce Unplugged is an acoustic concert series in the museum's Luce Foundation Center for American Art. The series brings in local talent to perform after an... Read more

  Posted on 16 August 2011 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Last Chance to Play Pheon (with Free Mustache Parting Gift)

  

  What are these Pheon players up to? Are you a Stave or are you a Knave? Who do you swear allegiance to? American Art's Pheon reveals a hidden world in our... Read more

  Posted on 11 August 2011 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• New Acquisition: On The Road with Allan D'Arcangelo's US Highway 1

  

  Allan D'Arcangelo's US Highway 1 US Highway 1 was acquired by American Art earlier this year. This post is part of an ongoing series spotlighting works that hav... Read more

  Posted on 09 August 2011 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• The Best of Ask Joan of Art: Sam Maloof

  

  This post is part of an ongoing series on Eye Level: The Best of Ask Joan of Art. Begun in 1993, Ask Joan of Art is the longest-running arts-based electronic... Read more

  Posted on 04 August 2011 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Celebrate This: Nam June Paik's Birthday

  

  Birthday cake for Nam June Paik featuring his work Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii on display at American Art. "Watch this. Read more

  Posted on 02 August 2011 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Matthias Pliessnig: In Ship Shape

  

  Matthias Pliessnig; Amada; 2010; white oak, birch; Private Collection "In 2006 I built a boat and was attracted to the process as well as to the form. It... Read more

  Posted on 28 July 2011 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Help Identify Ms. Nameless Artist

  

  Emily Moazami, one of American Art's photograph archivists, needs your help identifying an artist. Help us identify this artist. This photograph of a woman... Read more

  Posted on 26 July 2011 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Picture This: An Artwork Spa

  

  Members of American Art's Conservation department wash Luis Jiménez's Vaquero Artworks within American Art are meticulously attended to. Humidity and lighting... Read more

  Posted on 21 July 2011 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Let Them Eat Paik!

  

  Happy Birthday Nam June Paik!Join John Hanhardt, senior curator for media arts, and artist Jim Campbell Wednesday evening at 6pm in American Art's Watch This! Read more

  Posted on 19 July 2011 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Picture This: Exploring The Great American Hall of Wonders

  

  American Art's The Great American Hall of Wonders exhibition opens tomorrow, July 15 and runs through January 8, 2012. Examining the 19th-century belief that... Read more

  Posted on 14 July 2011 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• The People Behind the Video Games: Thatgamecompany

  

  Exhibition coordinator Georgina Goodlander and curator Chris Melissinos have been conducting interviews with video game designers, developers, writers, and... Read more

  Posted on 12 July 2011 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE, GAMING

• Latino Art 101 with Curator E. Carmen Ramos

  

  E. Carmen Ramos became the Smithsonian American Art Museum's curator of Latino art last fall. Now that she's had a chance to get settled, we caught up with her... Read more

  Posted on 07 July 2011 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Aultered States: George Ault's Disquieting World

  

  George Ault, Studio Interior, 1938, Watercolor and pencil on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from The Museum of Modern Art "Welcome to the... Read more

  Posted on 05 July 2011 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• A Special American Art July 4th Anniversary

  

  Theodore R. Davis, Patent-Office, Washington, DC— Examiners at Work, 1869, hand-colored wood engraving on paper, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian... Read more

  Posted on 01 July 2011 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE, HISTORY

• We've Got Something for You at the Renwick This Holiday Weekend

  

  These artists 'draw the spotlight on craft that couldn't havebeen made at any other time than now.' Michael O'Sullivan, The Washington Post Matthias Pliessnig;... Read more

  Posted on 29 June 2011 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Lights, Camera, Action! Antiques Roadshow in the American Art Museum

  

  Antiques Roadshow host, Mark L. Walberg, prepares for filming in the Lunder Conservation Center last August. A crew from Antiques Roadshow, along with Nancy... Read more

  Posted on 27 June 2011 ART & DESIGN

• The Best of Ask Joan of Art: Are Tattoos Art?

  

  This post is part of an ongoing series on Eye Level: The Best of Ask Joan of Art. Begun in 1993, Ask Joan of Art is the longest-running arts-based electronic... Read more

  Posted on 21 June 2011 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Cliff Lee and the Emperor's Old Glaze

  

  Cliff Lee, Prickly Melons (short and tall), 2008, Porcelain, imperial yellow glaze, Collection of the artist "Yellow makes everything shine," ceramicist Cliff... Read more

  Posted on 16 June 2011 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Getting Funky with American Art's Take 5!

  

  Summer is almost officially here, though it already feels like it when we step out of the crisp, cool corridors of the museum. Read more

  Posted on 14 June 2011 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE