Stories for May 2007

The Media Arts, or How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love Film Art

May 31, 2007

Still of Maya Deren from her film Meshes of the Afternoon For a moment I felt an intense flashback to my college days: I walked into the auditorium, took my seat, and was handed a five-page handout listing slides and...


In This Case: Peter Paul Rubens

May 25, 2007

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. Peter Paul Rubens, Madonna...


A Week in Reviews

May 25, 2007

Nice review of our Scully exhibition in dcist earlier this week. (They also have a review of our Saul Steinberg exhibition.) Sean Scully, Saul Steinberg, American Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum


Apples, Oranges

May 16, 2007

Sean Scully; Untitled (Print #6), from the portfolio Enter Six; 1998; etching, aquatint, sugarlift, and spitbite; Smithsonian American Art Museum; Gift of the artist The upcoming exhibition of Sean Scully's prints puts me in mind of a conversation I had...


Media Arts Lectures at SAAM Start Tomorrow

May 14, 2007

Nam June Paik; Zen for TV; 1963, 1976 version; manipulated vintage television and components; 19 x 22 1/2 x 18 in.; Smithsonian American Art Museum; Gift of Byungseol and Dolores An; 2006.20 Tuesday, May 15, John Hanhardt, SAAM's new Senior...


Podcasting the American West

May 11, 2007

Scene from the Washington National Opera's Dream of the Pacific, performed in our McEvoy Auditorium last summer. Photo by Karin Cooper for the Washington National Opera. We've just launched our third podcast. This one is about art and the American...


On the Calendar: Week of May 7, 2007

May 7, 2007

Some noteworthy events this week: a lecture by New Yorker cartoonist Matthew Diffee, a discussion with glass artist Beth Lipman at the Renwick (Pennsylvania Avenue at 17th Street, NW), and a screening of Seven Days in May. Events for the...


ColorField.remix

May 1, 2007

SAAM's Color Field Gallery with works by (from left to right): Paul Reed, Ann Truitt, Gene Davis, and Kenneth Noland. When Washington-area museums and galleries celebrate in tandem the legacy of the Washington Color School during ColorField.remix, one road will...