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Boasting 101
February 24, 2009
A visitor to American Art looks at Nam June Paik's Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii. Photo: Neon State courtesy of ©Jeff Suhanick via American Art's flickr group. Lots of museum work takes place behind the scenes, so that when...
Let Them Eat [Cup]cake!
February 21, 2009
Detail from Zilly Rosen’s duo cupcake portrait of Barack Obama and Abe Lincoln. The extreme close-up angle of this shot not only shows the cupcakes in detail but also makes for an interesting resemblance between our 44th President and Jay...
Too Sweet to Pass Up
February 10, 2009
Zilly Rosen with her original Obama cupcake installation, 2008, Buffalo, New York. Photo by Shasti O'Leary Soudant and Zilly Rosen Craving something sweet, but feeling too chilly to stand in line at Georgetown Cupcake? Make a note on your calendar...
Celebrate Chinese New Year on Saturday, January 24
January 22, 2009
Chinese Girl by Thomas Handforth Bring the entire family to the museum's Kogod Courtyard on Saturday, January 24 from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. as we celebrate The Year of the Ox in style! The museum's home in the Reynolds Center...
SAAM Celebrates FotoWeek DC
November 19, 2008
Fotoweek DC, a week-long celebration of photography here in the nation’s capital, is being celebrated at The American Art Museum with a series of nightly contemporary photo landscape projections on the walls of our Kogod Courtyard. The projected exhibition features...
Site Update
November 13, 2008
We have just updated and relaunched our main Smithsonian American Art Museum Web site. And we are in the process of updating links to that site from Eye Level. This may take a few days so you may be temporarily...
Mark Dion wins the Lucelia Artist Award
September 26, 2008
Mark Dion, Neukom Vivarium, 2004-2006, mixed-media installation, Seattle Art Museum. Photo by Paul Macapia, 2007, courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York. Dion placed a log within a greenhouse where visitors are encouraged to study the funguses, insects,...
Party Like It's 1865!
August 15, 2008
Members of the Victorian Dance Ensemble Not every Civil War reenactor tramps off to the battlefields with rations of hardtack; some prefer to hit the dance floor instead. On Saturday August 16 at noon, 2 p.m., and 4 p.m., the...
Stan Brakhage's History Lesson
July 22, 2008
Still from 23rd Psalm, Branch (Part II). Courtesy of the Estate of Stan Brakhage and Fred Camper Stan Brakhage's film, 23rd Psalm, Branch (Part I) from his Song series is forty-four minutes of war footage interspersed with images of the...
Carnaval del Corazón: It's Getting Hot Inside
July 2, 2008
Patssi Valdez's The Magic Room Upstairs at SAAM you can visit the exhibition The Honor of Your Company Is Requested: President Lincoln's Inaugural Ball and you can see how well you waltz, thanks to handy dance diagrams that are right...
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