Stories for November 2006

Eye Level's First Anniversary!

November 29, 2006

On this date last year we launched Eye Level. Just for fun, here is a visual index of all our posts -- 121 if you're keeping score. (Some date back a little farther than a year: when we launched we...

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...

The Empirical Cornell

November 20, 2006

Soap Bubble Set, 1949-50, Wood box construction with glass and mixed media, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase made possible by the American Art Forum In "Dance With Duality," her essay for Joseph Cornell: Shadowplay Eterniday, Linda Roscoe Hartigan writes:...

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...

Art in America (by way of France)

November 14, 2006

Jack (Jackson Pollock), Charles Pollock, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Collection of Elizabeth Pollock, 1976.65.7. What if Jackson Pollock hadn't been born in Cody, Wyoming, but rather Moulins sur Allier in France?...

Art Comes from Art

November 3, 2006

Philip Guston, American, b. Montreal, Canada, 1913 – 1980, Daydreams, 1970, oil on linen, 72 1/8 x 80 1/8 in., Bequest of Musa Guston, 1992 (92.18 ), Part of the Hirshhorn's current exhibition "Ways of Seeing," Image courtesy of the...