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Top Five for Holiday Shopping

dcmuseumgoer wrote 8 hours ago: Yes, it’s that time of year again. I’ve long favored D.C.’s museum gift shops for … more →

Tags: Corcoran Gallery of Art, National Building Museum, National Museum of African Art, textile. museum, gift shops, Holidays

Artist Jeanne-Claude has died suddenly. She lived a full life. May she now wrap Heaven in shimmering fabrics4 comments

genevaanderson wrote 1 week ago: Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebone, wife and artistic partner of Christo, died suddenly Wednesday, No … more →

Tags: Art, Albert Maysles, christo, christo and jeanne-claude, Christo Arkansas, Christo Arkansas project, Christo Gates, Christo's Valley Curtain, Geneva Anderson

At the American Art Museum, A Trip Back to 1934

dcmuseumgoer wrote 2 weeks ago: In the Barber Shop, Ilya Bolotowsky, Smithsonian American Art MuseumThough the Smithsonian American … more →

Tags: National Portrait Gallery, america, Art, obama

New Deal for Artists

philipkennicott wrote 3 weeks ago:             I missed the opening of the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s “1934: A New Deal for Arti … more →

Tags: Art, Culture, Museums, 1934, 1934: A New Deal for Artists, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Morris Dickstein, New Deal, new deal art

Dorothea Lange Biographer talk and book signing at SAAM tonight!1 comment

Susana Raab wrote 3 weeks ago: Dorothea at Work Dorothea Lange: A Life beyond Limits  7:00 PM McEvoy Auditorium, Lower Level Americ … more →

Tags: Invites, A Life Beyond Limits, Dorothea Lange, Linda Gordon

Private Rockwell Collections of Lucas and Spielberg To Go Public6 comments

Park West Gallery wrote 2 months ago: Park West Gallery, through association with the Norman Rockwell Licensing Company (the estate of the … more →

Tags: Artists & Special Collections, Art Gallery News, Articles, Norman Rockwell, Exhibits, Park West Galleries, Park West Gallery artist, Paintings, Drawings

"The Running Fence at 33"...an extended family gathers round Christo and Jeanne-Claude... we're all older but the fence lives on

genevaanderson wrote 2 months ago: Jeanne-Claude and Christo looking over the map of the Sonoma and Marin county properties that their … more →

Tags: Art, Amerlia Bruhn, Amy Sabourin, christo, christo and jeanne-claude, Christo The Umbrellas, Christo Wrapped Islands, Geneva Anderson, George Gurney curator

Borderstan Weekend: July 18/19

lgomez66 wrote 4 months ago: Here are some suggestions of things to do during the weekend in Borderstan, really close by or in th … more →

Tags: Art, Arts, Borderstan, DC museums, Dupont Circle, Local Business, Logan Circle, Music, on events

Free Smithsonian American Art Museum Videoconferences

Rebecca Morrison wrote 4 months ago: Can't take your students to D.C. for a field trip? Try a VC! Here is a list of recently updated … more →

Tags: internet safety, Videoconferencing, Creative Commons, distance learning, flickr, Videoconferences

featured artist: jean shin's common threads

langeartsadvisory wrote 5 months ago: Jean Shin’s “Common Threads” can be seen over at the Smithsonian American Art Muse … more →

Tags: Military Uniforms, JEan Shin, Common Threads, community art, museum installation art, Identity Art, sculptural installations, everyday monuments, sports trophies

Debris and Dialogue

dcartseen wrote 6 months ago: Jean Shin, Chemical Balance III, 2009, Prescription Bottles, mirror and epoxy, fluorescent lights. I … more →

Tags: World, DC, Art, drug, installation, Sculpture, Consumerist, Jena Shin, Medicine

Last Videoconferences of the School Year

Rebecca Morrison wrote 6 months ago: At the end of next week, we will have completed the 2008-2009 school year cycle of videoconferences! … more →

Tags: Videoconferencing, classroom technology, Videoconference, Center for Puppetry Arts, flickr, Aviation, Caterpillar

Smithsonian goes trashy1 comment

Victor Bernhardtz wrote 7 months ago: For those lucky cheeses who happen to pass through Washington D.C. (Leila, road trip!), the Smithson … more →

Tags: artistic trash, JEan Shin

American art in New Britain, Connecticut

emsworth wrote 7 months ago: The old museum building is on the right, the new one on the left. (April 11, 2009) Till a couple wee … more →

Tags: The art museum junkie, The arts in Rochester, American impressionists, Arts of the West, boom town, Carl Frederick Gaertner, Chinese Restaurant, Colin Campbell Cooper, Dale Chihuly

My new (old) Roz Chast book1 comment

ginavivinetto wrote 8 months ago: Yesterday I found this old Roz Chast book of comics at the Cleveland Park branch library book sale f … more →

Tags: Books, Culture, Art, Comedy, The New Yorker, cartoons, Roz Chast, Charles Addams, American Pictures Distinguished Lecture Series

"1934: A New Deal for Artists" at the Smithsonian American Art Museum

barbburt wrote 9 months ago: The Smithsonian American Art Museum is currently (through January 3, 2010) showing a wonderful exhib … more →

Tags: legislation, Legislation Today, New Deal Legislation, elizabeth blair, New Deal, WPA

'1934': Reflecting On America's First Big Art Buy

rogerhollander wrote 9 months ago:   by Elizabeth Blair NPR, March 5, 2009 Listen Now [3 min 23 sec] add to playlist http://www.npr.org … more →

Tags: Art, Literature and Culture, Economic Crisis, Labor, Art, Artists, betsy broun, depression art, Dorothea Lange, earle richardson

1934: A new Deal for Artists. 1 comment

davideubank wrote 9 months ago: Franz Kline 1910-1962 1934: A new Deal for Artists. A retrospective of American Art of the Depressio … more →

Tags: Art, Art Marketing, Art News, Culture Economey, How to survive as a Working Artists, Journalism, media, On Art, Painting

Weekly Roundup: Strange Pairings - Starbucks and Instant Coffee, Presidents and Cupcakes2 comments

moderndomestic wrote 9 months ago: The Obama/Lincoln cupcake installation at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Photo by outtacontext … more →

Tags: DC, cupcakes, Cupcakes take the Cake, Weekly Roundup, Zilly Rosen, DCist, starbucks, bee cupcakes