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Happy Halloween!
October 31, 2008
John Whetten Ehninger's October When I came home from work last night there were piles of leaves all over the front lawn and two humongous carved pumpkins on our front porch. I'd like to think my family dressed up just...
Picture This: Bottle Caps at SAAM
December 26, 2007
A collection of post-holiday bottle caps? Not on your life! From our Flickr photo pool comes this photograph by Justin Hoffmann: a closeup of Bottlecap Giraffe, part of SAAM's folk art collection. The piece can be found "in captivity" in...
Happy Halloween!
October 31, 2007
John Quidor, The Headless Horseman Pursuing Ichabod Crane, 1858, oil, 26 7/8 x 33 7/8 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase made possible in part by the Catherine Walden Myer Endowment, the Julia D. Strong Endowment, and the Director's...
Picture This: Trees!!
September 20, 2007
Black Olive Tree Being Lowered Into the Courtyard (View larger image) Timing is everything. On my way to photograph the installation of Andrea Zittel's work for our upcoming exhibition Celebrating the Lucelia Artist Award, 2001—2006, I stopped off to see...
Picture This: Courtyard Construction Update
July 2, 2007
Construction of the central courtyard. Click on image for larger view. Workers are now installing radiant heating/cooling tubes and the infrastructure for the water features—yes, I said water features—in the courtyard floor. A shallow scrim of water will flow across...
Picture This: A Hole in One
February 28, 2007
On my way through the museum this morning I found this construction scene of the Robert and Arlene Kogod Courtyard. Norman Foster's canopy is almost complete except for one hole that will remain open until the completion of the floor...
Picture This: David Beck
January 12, 2007
David Beck's MVSEVM Joseph Cornell paved the way for artists like David Beck. Beck was commissioned to create MVSEVM to commemorate the reopening of the Smithsonian American Art Museum in July of this year, and Cornell's influence is apparent: when...
Picture This: Goop Joe's Poultry Pages
November 28, 2006
During the press preview for our Joseph Cornell exhibition I kept seeing people smiling and laughing while looking at the objects in one particular case. It contains pages from Goop Joe's Poultry Pages, a delightful mashup that Cornell made for...
Picture This: Joseph Cornell Docent Training
November 17, 2006
Exhibition curator Lynda Hartigan leads a training session for docents in the galleries of our Joseph Cornell exhibition (opening today). Cornell is known for his glass-paned boxes filled with intricate three-dimensional collages. This picture made me realize that we've created...
Picture This: Joesph Cornell Installation
November 15, 2006
Joseph Cornell: Navigating the Imagination opens in two days (on Friday November 17, 2006), and we're busy busy busy. This shot shows Mitzi Harp, head of computer support, working on audio-visual and kiosk systems for the exhibition. Joseph Cornell, Smithsonian...
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