Blog Profile / Eye Level
| URL : | http://eyelevel.si.edu/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Arts / Museums | |
| Posts on Regator: | 563 | |
| Posts / Week: | 2.1 | |
| Archived Since: | April 5, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
Thomas Day: Man, Maker, Mogul
Thomas Day, Newel, 1855, Glass-Dameron House, North Carolina. Photo © Tim Buchman 2013 The elegant Grand Salon was the setting for a panel discussion on the many lives and interests of Thomas Day, the subject of the Renwick Gallery’s, Thomas...
Upcoming Cineconcert: Andrew E. Simpson and The Wind
On May 19th, composer and pianist Andrew E. Simpson will perform his original score for the 1928 silent film The Wind at a special afternoon screening at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery. Lillian Gish, the "First...
Fabricating for an Exhibition: Jim Baxter and Thomas Day: Master Craftsman and Free Man of Color
The exhibition Thomas Day: Master Craftsman and Free Man of Color opened last month at the Renwick Gallery. Georgina Goodlander chatted with Jim Baxter, an exhibits specialist at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, who created architectural components inspired by Day's...
In This Case: Prairie Chicken
Kelly Trop interned at American Art from September 2012 to May 2013. She worked in the Public Programs office and Luce Foundation Center and wrote this post about her experience. Edward Kemeys' Praire Chicken As an intern at the American...
Picture This: Paikbot Family Day
Spontaneous Art - Exquisite Motion Corpse: 4 stacked TV screens. The top shows video clips of visitor’s and random heads, the middle of torsos, the bottom two are legs! As part of our activities surrounding the exhibition Nam June Paik:...
Preserving the Parlor's Pictures
[Three Men and a Woman], Artist unidentified. Few architectural ideas are able to capture a sense of historical romanticism as readily as the notion of the nineteenth century parlor. Dark wood interiors complimented by the delicate white lace of table...
Picture This: Slow Art at American Art
Public Programs Coordinator Laurel Fehrenbach, center, leads a discussion with Slow Art participants at American Art American Art participated in this year's Slow Art Day, one of over 265 museums world-wide. One of the paintings we discussed was Untitled by...
The Civil War and American Art: A Confederate View
This blog post is part of a monthly Eye Level feature on our exhibition The Civil War and American Art. Curator Eleanor Harvey talks about many of the important intersections between American art and the Civil War. The exhibition runs...
Slow Art Day: Leaning Towards a Different Way of Looking at and Loving Art
On Saturday, April 27, American Art will be one of the over 240 museums around the world that will be hosting Slow Art Day. The event is free to the public. Jeff Gates took some time to talk with Slow...
Jazz Appreciation Month: A Tribute to Dave Brubeck
Brubeck Institute's Jazz Quintet Jazz Appreciation Month: A Tribute to Dave Brubeck In celebration of Jazz Appreciation Month, the Smithsonian American Art Museum will present a concert in tribute of the late Dave Brubeck by the Brubeck Institute's Jazz Quintet...
In This Case: Adventures in Haiku Writing
Hedda Sterne's Cauliflower in the Luce Foundation Center. My friend and I have been trying to write haikus. It's harder than it looks! A haiku consists of three phrases and a set syllabic pattern, which changes depending on what typ...
Picture This: Behind-the-Scenes with Thomas Day, Master Craftsman and Free Man of Color
Exhibition specialist Jim Baxter, along with Work Study student Paige Johnson, install final touches to our latest exhibition: Thomas Day: Master Craftsman and Free Man of Color up now through July 28, 2013. To see more of the installation, take...
Nam June Paik: Musician and Media Artist Stephen Vitiello Interviews Composer Ryuichi Sakamoto
Stephen Vitiello, electronic musician and media artist, interviewed Academy Award- and Grammy Award-winning musician and composer, Ryuichi Sakamoto, before they perform their tribute Strange Music for Nam June Paik, part of the Art & Process program on Sunday, April 14....
Walt Whitman's Specimen Days
Bierstadt Brothers, Albumen silver print, "Patent Office, Washington D.C.," 1861, The Patent Office Building in Washington, D.C. later became the Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture, housing the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Smithsonian's National Portrait...
Serendipity in the Museum
Susie Krasnican discusses her work Dress for Success Serendipity has always been an important role in the art making experience. Sometimes an artist's muse seems to talk to us in ways we could never predict. Actually, it's something we often...
In this Case: La France Croisée
Romaine Brooks' La France Croisée This month marks my six-year anniversary as a Luce Foundation Center employee. Since I became the Center's program coordinator last year, I've been spending less and less time in the Center itself. While I miss...
Lunder Conservation Center: Secrets of a Sailor
Conservator Amber Kerr-Allison (left) talks to Mary Tait (right) about a painting of her ancestor. The only thing I ever knew about the portrait that hung on my great aunt's wall for most of my childhood was that it showed...
Q and Art: Anna Claypoole Peale
This post is part of an ongoing series on Eye Level: "Q and Art," where American Art's Research department brings you interesting questions and answers about art and artists from our archive. Woman in a Red Dress by Anna Claypoole.....
Our New Museum Stores
American Art and the Portrait Gallery share not only a building but also our museum stores. We have two stores that are now under new management with a completely new array of gifts and merchandise that is collection-based. Writer Warren...
A Civil War Wikipedia Edit-a-thon!
Photograph by Mary Tait, Smithsonian American Art Museum This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License, via Wikimedia Commons The Smithsonian American Art Museum has been working with the D.C. Wikimedia community to share our collections...