Curators and experts from the Smithsonian American Art Museum share stories from the museum's exhibitions and permanent collection. Image: Edmonia Lewis, "The Death of Cleopatra" (detail) Smithsonian American Art Museum.
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Video interview with the collectors Chuck and Jan Rosenak produced for the Luce Foundation Center in the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Video interview with the collectors Chuck and Jan Rosenak produced for the Luce Foundation Center in the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Video interview with the collectors Chuck and Jan Rosenak produced for the Luce Foundation Center in the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
In this series Lisa Hostetler, McEvoy Family Curator for Photography, discusses the exhibition "Landscapes in Passing: Photographs by Steve Fitch, Robbert Flick, and Elaine Mayes." This exhibition presents forty-eight photographs that depict the American landscape in passing, as drive-through scenery rather than the entrancing wilderness of the nineteenth century.
In this series Lisa Hostetler, McEvoy Family Curator for Photography, discusses the exhibition "Landscapes in Passing: Photographs by Steve Fitch, Robbert Flick, and Elaine Mayes." This exhibition presents forty-eight photographs that depict the American landscape in passing, as drive-through scenery rather than the entrancing wilderness of the nineteenth century.
In this series Lisa Hostetler, McEvoy Family Curator for Photography, discusses the exhibition "Landscapes in Passing: Photographs by Steve Fitch, Robbert Flick, and Elaine Mayes." This exhibition presents forty-eight photographs that depict the American landscape in passing, as drive-through scenery rather than the entrancing wilderness of the nineteenth century.
In this series Lisa Hostetler, McEvoy Family Curator for Photography, discusses the exhibition "Landscapes in Passing: Photographs by Steve Fitch, Robbert Flick, and Elaine Mayes." This exhibition presents forty-eight photographs that depict the American landscape in passing, as drive-through scenery rather than the entrancing wilderness of the nineteenth century.
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What is the intersection between art and music? Our podcast, "Visual Art and Music," explores three art pieces currently on display at American Art and their connection with music.
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Listen to American Art's first podcast, "American Art's Opening Episode," to get an introduction to the museum.
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Listen to our podcast on "Photography at American Art" to learn about our photo collections.
List to our podcast on the exhibition, "Temple of Invention," to learn about the magnificent building that houses the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
In our illustrated presentation, "1934: A New Deal for Artists," Co-Curator Anne Wagner discusses the Public Works of Art Project and its impact on artists working during the Great Depression. She touches on the federal government and its program to support artists, the lives of artists working on the federal pay roll, and select paintings from the exhibition "1934: A New Deal For Artists."
This podcast features a conversation between curators Eleanor Harvey and Toby Jurovics about the work and lives of Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams.