Stories for August 2006
In This Case: LeWitt
August 30, 2006
In This Case is a series of periodic posts on art in the Luce Foundation Center, a visible art storage facility at the Smithsonian American Art Museum that displays more than 3,300 pieces in fifty-seven cases. Note that the image...
The Initiative
August 25, 2006
Included on the Smithsonian Photography Initiative Web site: Terry Evans, Fairy Ring #2, Fent's Prairie, 1979, Ektacolor print, 15 x 15 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Consolidated Natural Gas Company Foundation, 1989.38.5 After the New York Public...
Bar Italia
August 18, 2006
Paul Cadmus, Bar Italia, 1953–1955, tempera on wood, 37 1/2 x 45 1/4 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc., 1969.47.54. Getting tired of mobs of tourists wherever you travel this summer? Paul Cadmus could...
Cornell Cool
August 17, 2006
Joseph Cornell, "Ideals are like stars, about 1957-58, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 1984.124.71 The "Week Ahead" column in the Sunday, August 13, New York Times notes a Joseph Cornell exhibiton at the Katonah Museum of Art in Katonah, New York....
Mountains and Clouds
August 10, 2006
Alexander Calder's Mountains and Clouds at the Hart Building A friend who works in the Senate offered to meet me in the Hart Building before heading over to show me around some special collections rooms at the Library of Congress....
In This Case: Catlin
August 8, 2006
In This Case is a series of weekly posts on art in the Luce Foundation Center, a visible art storage facility at the Smithsonian American Art Museum that displays more than 3,300 pieces in fifty-seven cases. George Catlin, Prairie Meadows...
George Washington: His Head in the Clouds
August 5, 2006
Thomas P. Rossiter, Visit of the Prince of Wales, President Buchanan, and Dignitaries to the Tomb of Washington at Mount Vernon, October 1860, 1861, oil, 27 1/4 x 54 3/8 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Harriet Lane Johnston,...
LA Times: Now on Exhibit, the Blogger's View
August 2, 2006
Los Angeles Times discusses the new world of museum blogging For a behind-the-scenes look at museum blogging in general and Eye Level in particular, take a look at Now on exhibit, the blogger's view in Sunday's Los Angeles Times. Writer...
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