Stories for April 2006
Eye Level Wins MUSE Award
April 28, 2006
Eye Level has won a MUSE Award from the American Association of Museums—we took home a silver in “Two-Way Communication Projects.” COSI Columbus took the gold in this category for its videoconference In Depth: Autopsy, SFMOMA and Antenna Audio received...
The Lucelia Artist Award: Matthew Coolidge of the Center for Land Use Interpretation
April 27, 2006
Center for Land Use Interpretation, Subterranean Renovations: The Unique Architectural Spaces of Show Caves, 1998, CLUI Archive photo Congratulations are in order for Matthew Coolidge, director of the Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI) and winner of the 2006 SAAM...
Speaking of Pictures: Abbott Handerson Thayer
April 25, 2006
Abbott Handerson Thayer, My Children (Mary, Gerald, and Gladys Thayer), about 1897, oil, 86 1/4×61 1/8 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of John Gellatly, 1929.6.122 Check out SAAM’s new Interact feature—Speaking of Pictures—which allows you to roll over an...
Design This Web Site
April 25, 2006
If you were Boss of the World, and you were designing a new visit section for the SAAM and National Portrait Gallery Web site, you would...
Meet the Press
April 22, 2006
The Old Patent Office building housed government offices in the 1950s. Last week All Things Considered ran a feature by Lynn Neary about the restoration of the Old Patent Office building, which houses the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the...
Looking at Art with Fresh Eyes
April 19, 2006
Director of Education Susan Nichols discusses Dan Dailey’s Parkman Coupe with Holton students. There’s nothing like looking at artworks with fresh eyes—or, at least, watching others look with fresh eyes. Last Wednesday, the AP Art History class from The Holton-Arms...
Presenting Dorothy Draper
April 17, 2006
Dorothy Draper, 1937, Courtesy Collection of Dorothy Draper & Co. Inc., The Carleton Varney Design Group. If you don't know the name, you know her work. She is the incredible Dorothy Draper (1889-1969), and she is having a banner year....
Hiroshi Sugimoto (Part I)
April 12, 2006
Hiroshi Sugimoto, Polar Bear, 1976 In person, Hiroshi Sugimoto resists the descriptions that apply to his photography; he is not dour or somber but affable, even irreverent. His February 16 onstage conversation with Hirshhorn Museum chief curator Kerry Brougher saw...
The Hours
April 10, 2006
Man Ray, Indestructible Object, 1965, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 1993.43 Recently my roommate and I found ourselves tossed out of the Dada exhibit at the National Gallery of Art. No, not for any Dada-inspired improvised performances—merely because the museum closed....
Cherry Jam
April 7, 2006
Tidal Basin in Full Bloom. Photo by Mike Edson. This is the time of year when Washington policy wonks, lobbyists, federal employees, and even elected officials put down their budget reports and poll results and head out to roll around...
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