Stories for March 2006
Best of the Web
March 30, 2006
One of our "big" ones: Campfire Stories with George Catlin. The Museums and the Web conference announced the winners of its Best of the Web competition Friday in Albuquerque, New Mexico. All the winners are listed below, but the one...
Manifest Destiny
March 28, 2006
The Copely (sic) crater on Mercury. From the Center for Planetary Sciences. This doesn't specifically concern American art—or even anything on the planet Earth—but of the craters on the planet Mercury named after important terrestrial cultural figures, only one American...
Museums and the Web Wake-Up Call
March 25, 2006
An archetypal mobile superuser. It starts very, very early. I thought I was beginning to understand this job just a little bit. We talk to curators and educators about art, listen to the public, and generally get excited about things...
Safire's Spreadsheet
March 24, 2006
A grammar maven and self-described “vituperative right-wing scandalmonger,” former New York Times opinion columnist William Safire is not your typical arts advocate. But Safire wants you to rethink not only the politics of art but art itself, according to Philip...
Think Green
March 17, 2006
Frank Brito, Saint Patrick Missionary of Ireland, about 1960s, carved and painted cottonwood, 13 x 5 x 4 3/4 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Chuck and Jan Rosenak and museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H....
A Herculean Move
March 15, 2006
How do you get a large painting into an art museum? Click on the image to begin the video (Quicktime, 4.3 MB). How does SAAM move a monumental artwork into the museum? Watch this video to find out! A tower...
Grant Wood's Studio
March 10, 2006
Visit Grant Wood’s virtual studio. Grant Wood’s iconic work, American Gothic, makes a return visit to Washington for the first time in 40 years. See it—along with lesser-known gems, such as Corn Cob Chandelier— in Grant Wood’s Studio: Birthplace of...
Shedding Some Light on Art
March 7, 2006
Scott Rosenfeld, our lighting designer, tests a new lighting system. A small crowd gathered in our offices this morning to watch Scott Rosenfeld, SAAM's lighting designer, play with this funky new light fixture. Instead of a halogen or incandescent bulb,...
Another (Alternate) Year, Another Biennial
March 3, 2006
The 2006 Whitney Biennial opened yesterday. These days biennials are met as often with fanfare as with handwringing about the state of the curated art survey. Mark Stevens discusses this year’s curator–critic matchup in his New York Magazine pregame analysis...
Site Specific
March 1, 2006
The site for the National Museum of African American History and Culture will be just northeast of the Washington Monument and west of the National Museum of American History. In light of the recent passing of both Rosa Parks and...
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