Freer Gallery of Art
Events: The Art of Human Origins, Meet Hans Op de Beeck, Celebrate Women's History Month and More
Monday, March 14: Recreating Our Past: The Art of Human OriginsWith only fossil records to go by, how do artists go about envisioning what our human ancestors looked like? In this Resident Associate Program event, paleoartists John Gurche and Karen Carr discuss the techniques and science behind the...
March 14, 2011 |
By Jesse Rhodes
Weekend Events: George Ault, Coral Reef Awareness and Celebrating Persian New Year
Friday, March 11: To Make a World Exhibition TalkCome explore the vision of America realized by painter George Ault through the canvases on display in this brand new show. Alexander Nemerov, exhibition curator and Yale University’s Vincent Scully Professor of the History of Art, discusses what mak...
March 10, 2011 |
By Jesse Rhodes
It's March Already? Celebrate With Lions and Lambs at the Smithsonian
Last week, the ATM blog team started a new weekly feature called, “The List,” where we provide you with, you guessed it, a short thematic list of really cool things to check out around the Smithsonian. If the missed the first one, check it out here.So, in the spirit of change, let's talk about this...
March 02, 2011 |
By Arcynta Ali Childs
Events: Music of Eastern Europe, Chinese Jade and a Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Lunder Conservation Center
Monday, February 28: Ira Aldridge: The African RosciusTonight's Cultures in Motion performance pays tribute to the life of celebrated 19th-century Shakespearean actor Ira Aldridge. The play examines the life of an African American who was forced to emigrate to Europe in the early 1800s in order to ...
February 28, 2011 |
By Jesse Rhodes
Freer and Egypt: Egyptian Art at the Freer Gallery
This month, as Egyptians took to the streets to protest the country’s 30-year old political regime, it was reported that the Egyptian Museum in Cairo had been broken into with several artifacts stolen and others damaged during the break-in.In 1906, the Egyptian Museum in Cairo was only four years o...
February 23, 2011 |
By Arcynta Ali Childs
Events: An Evening of Classical Music, A Discussion on Slavery and More
Tuesday, February 22: Sketching: Draw and Discover: Luce Foundation Center for American ArtCome be inspired by the works on display at the American Art Museum and then spend some time sketching at the Luce Foundation Center’s workshop. Free, but bring sketchbooks and pencils. American Art Museum, 3...
February 22, 2011 |
By Jesse Rhodes
Events: Butterflies, Underwater Archaeology, Iranian Cinema and More
Monday, February 14: Butterfly PavilionThis Valentine's Day, why not take your sweetheart by the arm and take a stroll through this special exhibit area which is rife with exotic plants and live butterflies that hail from all over the world. Tickets are required. Rates are: $6 for adults; $5.50 for...
February 14, 2011 |
By Jesse Rhodes
Weekend Events: Celebrating Chocolate, Make Your Own Valentines and Persian Cinema
Friday, February 11: SalveA crusty grandmother finds herself in the unlikely role of guardian angel to her rebellious granddaughter, who runs away for love of a drug dealer and is left like a tender chick at the mercy of hawks. A sense of moody poetry runs through this story that combines the grimn...
February 11, 2011 |
By Jesse Rhodes
Google Art Project Comes to the Smithsonian
You've never seen a Whistler this way before.As a part of the newly announced Google Art Project, the Smithsonian's Freer Gallery of Art is giving art lovers an up close and personal look at James McNeill Whistler's "The Princess from the Land of Porcelain" along with 16 other works of art from mus...
February 01, 2011 |
By Brian Wolly
Events: African Cinema, FONZ Photo Club, Conservation Clinics and More
Monday, January 31: Reel InjunEntertaining and insightful, this documentary explores representations of Native Americans across 100 years of cinema and uncovers how these celluloid myths led to the world's understanding—and misunderstanding—of Native peoples. Clips from classic and recent films wit...
January 31, 2011 |
By Jesse Rhodes
Events: Meet the Scientist, a Glimpse of Tehran, Crocheted Coral Reefs and More
Monday, January 24: Meet an Oceanographer: The Sant Ocean HallGet your pressing marine biology questions answered in the Sant Ocean Hall. Meet the scientist stationed within the exhibition, who will show collections specimens or artifacts (including some under the microscope) with visitors, and lea...
January 24, 2011 |
By Jesse Rhodes
Events: Elvis, the Wright Brothers, Foreign Film and More
Tuesday, January 18:The Washington D.C. area experienced a snow and ice event, but all of the Smithsonian museums and the National Zoo are open today. The National Museum of Natural History's Naturalist Center located in Leesburg, Virginia, is closed today. A quilting demonstration at the Nationa...
January 18, 2011 |
By Jesse Rhodes
Weekend Events: Gallery Talks, Joseph Cornell and a Spot of Tea
Friday, January 7Friday Gallery Talk: Clarke Bedford: Come on out to the Hirshhorn where conservator Clarke Bedford will talk about "ColorForms," an exhibition that explores the way artists employ color and abstract forms. Free. Hirshhorn, 12:30 PM.Saturday, January 8Portrait Story Days: Joseph Cor...
January 07, 2011 |
By Jesse Rhodes
Presidential Historian Robert Dallek to Give Talk on JFK
This month marks the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's inauguration—January 20, the day that the U.S. Senator from Massachusetts took oath and famously appealed to his fellow Americans, "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."Robert Dallek, a presidentia...
January 05, 2011 |
By Megan Gambino
Freer Gallery Celebrates "Seasons"
Today, the 21st of December, marks the winter solstice—the day of the year when the Earth is tilted the farthest away from the sun on its axis. How better to acknowledge the first day of winter, than to turn to "Seasons," a series of five overlapping exhibitions at the Smithsonian's Freer Gallery o...
December 21, 2010 |
By Megan Gambino
Bruce Lee Kicks it Old School at the Freer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tB-QGOChuQcThink old-school kung fu movies, and whose fists of fury likely come to mind? Bruce Lee’s. And if the thought of him dispatching bad guy after bad guy gets your blood flowing, kick down the doors of the Freer Gallery this Friday night, December 10, at 7:00p...
December 09, 2010 |
By Jeff Campagna
Weekend Events: Holiday Fun at the National Zoo, Natural History Museum and the Freer
Friday, December 3: ZooLights, the National Zoo's festive electric light display, is back once again—and this year it's absolutely free! For children of all ages, a menagerie of LED light sculptures modeled after critters at the zoo will be on display. Tickets are NOT required. (Yay!) for visitors ...
December 03, 2010 |
By Jesse Rhodes
Events: Japanese Rock and Roll, Latin American Poetry, Pop Up Books and More
Monday, November 29: IMAXBaby, it's cold outside—so come on in and enjoy an IMAX movie. Theaters are located in the Natural History Museum, the Air and Space Museum and the Udvar-Hazy Center. In addition to short films—like “Dinosaurs” and “Legends of Flight”—catch a screening of the full-length fe...
November 29, 2010 |
By Jesse Rhodes
"Ancient Chinese Jades and Bronzes" Opens at the Freer Gallery
After spending more than a decade in storage, a group of Chinese jade and bronze works have been reinstalled in two newly renovated galleries at the Freer Gallery of Art. The exhibit, "Ancient Chinese Jades and Bronzes," marks the first phase of the museum's plan to overhaul each of their Chinese a...
November 22, 2010 |
By Jess Righthand
Weekend Events: Jazz at the Freer, Fashionable Gods and a National Portrait Gallery Family Fun Day
Friday, November 19: Jason Hwang's Edge QuartetAn award-winning violinist, composer, and jazz artist, Hwang returns to the Freer with his latest project, Burning Bridge, commissioned by Chamber Music America's New Jazz Works program. His Edge Quartet is joined by guest artists on erhu (Chinese fidd...
November 19, 2010 |
By Jesse Rhodes
