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SAAM Celebrates FotoWeek DC
November 19, 2008
Fotoweek DC, a week-long celebration of photography here in the nation’s capital, is being celebrated at The American Art Museum with a series of nightly contemporary photo landscape projections on the walls of our Kogod Courtyard. The projected exhibition features...
Site Update
November 13, 2008
We have just updated and relaunched our main Smithsonian American Art Museum Web site. And we are in the process of updating links to that site from Eye Level. This may take a few days so you may be temporarily...
Mark Dion wins the Lucelia Artist Award
September 26, 2008
Mark Dion, Neukom Vivarium, 2004-2006, mixed-media installation, Seattle Art Museum. Photo by Paul Macapia, 2007, courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York. Dion placed a log within a greenhouse where visitors are encouraged to study the funguses, insects,...
Party Like It's 1865!
August 15, 2008
Members of the Victorian Dance Ensemble Not every Civil War reenactor tramps off to the battlefields with rations of hardtack; some prefer to hit the dance floor instead. On Saturday August 16 at noon, 2 p.m., and 4 p.m., the...
Stan Brakhage's History Lesson
July 22, 2008
Still from 23rd Psalm, Branch (Part II). Courtesy of the Estate of Stan Brakhage and Fred Camper Stan Brakhage's film, 23rd Psalm, Branch (Part I) from his Song series is forty-four minutes of war footage interspersed with images of the...
Carnaval del Corazón: It's Getting Hot Inside
July 2, 2008
Patssi Valdez's The Magic Room Upstairs at SAAM you can visit the exhibition The Honor of Your Company Is Requested: President Lincoln's Inaugural Ball and you can see how well you waltz, thanks to handy dance diagrams that are right...
Take Me Out to the Museum: Baseball Family Day @ SAAM
June 4, 2008
Unidentified Photographer, Untitled (historical photograph, baseball team) from the Buffalo, New York Documentary Survey Project The ballparks in my old stomping ground of New York are shutting their doors. The newspapers reported the impending closing of Yankee and Shea Stadiums,...
"Bloggie" Nominations Are Now Open
January 7, 2008
We at Eye Level write because we love art. That, alone, is its own reward. But (and isn't there always a "but?") we art-loving mortals will accept a pat-on-the-back should one come our way. Which, incidentally, reminds me that nominations...
Introducing Howard
October 5, 2007
It's the dawn of the new fiscal year (ok, so you're not interested in the ways of the federal government). But in this case it means I get to introduce you to a new addition to our Eye Level team,...
On the Calendar: Cartoons and Improv Comedy This Weekend
June 1, 2007
Saturday, improv comedy group Now This! will be improvising scenes based on Saul Steinberg's New Yorker cartoons. Sunday, New Yorker Cartoon Editor Bob Mankoff talks about Steinberg's early work. Smithsonian American Art Museum
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