Smithsonian American Art Museum
Events: Women Inventors, Walking in Space, Quilting and More!
Monday, March 22: Seasoned with SpiritEnjoy episodes of the public television series Seasoned with Spirit, and join host Loretta Barrett Oden as she visits Native communities to learn about their agricultural and culinary traditions. In Food Upon the Water, Oden participates in a wild rice harvest ...
March 22, 2010 |
By Jesse Rhodes
Environmental Film Festival Roundup
The D.C. Environmental Film Festival is upon us!The Smithsonian is offering a variety of free movies and events in conjunction with the 2010 Environmental Film Festival. Check out the festival's website and goSmithsonian for full information on dates, times and film synopses. Feel free to downloa...
March 19, 2010 |
By Jamie Simon
Events: How to Build Your Own Print Collection, Grow Wild Rice, and Know Julia Child and More!
Monday, March 15: Seasoned with SpiritEnjoy episodes of the public television series Seasoned with Spirit, and join host Loretta Barrett Oden as she visits Native communities to learn about their agricultural and culinary traditions. In Food Upon the Water, Oden participates in a wild rice harvest ...
March 15, 2010 |
By Jesse Rhodes
Events: American Indian Food, Jane Austen, Vampires and More!
Monday, March 8: Seasoned with SpiritEnjoy episodes of the public television series Seasoned with Spirit, join host Loretta Barrett Oden as she visits Native communities to learn about their agricultural and culinary traditions. In Food Upon the Water, Oden participates in a wild rice harvest and s...
March 08, 2010 |
By Jesse Rhodes
Spend the Night at the Natural History Museum
You don't have to be someone like Luca Brasi to sleep with the fishes anymore because the Resident Associates Program is offering sleepover parties in the Natural History Museum's Sant Ocean Hall! That's right kids, for $125 you and a chaperone can have an evening full of edutainment that kicks off...
March 06, 2010 |
By Jesse Rhodes
Weekend Events: Women's History Month and a Persian New Year Celebration!
Saturday, March 6: Women’s History Month Family Day CelebrationThe Smithsonian celebrates Women’s History Month with a festival devoted to women in the arts. Enjoy music and dance performances and workshops, hands-on art and stamp-collecting activities, and a special Red Carpet area for stars of al...
March 05, 2010 |
By Jesse Rhodes
Struggle for Justice Open at National Portrait Gallery
The fight for fair and equal treatment is central to the American story and "Struggle for Justice," a new exhibition that opened recently at the National Portrait Gallery, highlights the champions of people marginalized or disenfranchised because of the color of their skin, their religion, their se...
March 04, 2010 |
By Jesse Rhodes
Events: Saving Our Oceans, Looking Forward to New Museums, Marilyn Monroe and More!
Monday, March 1: Smithsonian Magazine's Photo Contest OpensSo, there's nothing special happening at the museums today (check out this site for a list of regularly-scheduled fun things to do), but today marks the opening of Smithsonian magazine's 8th annual photo contest! Check out the photo contest...
March 01, 2010 |
By Jesse Rhodes
Weekend Events: Black History Month Family Celebration, Glass Artist Karen LaMonte, and the Zoo's Wild Side Stage
Friday, February 26: Artist Talk: Karen LaMonteGlass artist Karen LaMonte—who American Art Museum visitors may know for her cast glass sculpture Reclining Dress Impression with Drapery—will be discussing her work and the unique process she uses to create her sensuous glass garments. Free, American ...
February 26, 2010 |
By Jesse Rhodes
Counting Down to the 2010 Winter Olympic Games
As we count down the hours until the opening ceremonies of the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver, we thought we’d take a look at past Olympics games to mark the occasion.The National Postal Museum’s online exhibit, Playing to Win: American Sports & Athletes on Stamps, gives some historica...
February 12, 2010 |
By Erica R. Hendry
Celebrate the Super Bowl Smithsonian-Style!
If you're stuck with a group of football fanatics, it's no fun being the odd person out having nothing to contribute to Super Bowl-related conversation
February 05, 2010 |
By Jesse Rhodes
An Interesting Look at "Lists" at Archives of American Art
I am an obsessive list maker. Everyday I have a “to do” list. I usually mark the most important tasks with asterisks, or number them according to priority. When I’m contemplating my next move, I retrace the words until they are pressed into the paper. And when I’ve done a “do,” I cross it out, as o...
February 04, 2010 |
By Megan Gambino
Breathing New Life Into Old Classics: Darwyn Cooke Reimagines 'The Hunter'
Move over, Elvis.Another old classic is making a comeback. The 1962 crime fiction classic, The Hunter by Donald E. Westlake (under the pseudonym of Richard Stark) is the inspiration for a new graphic novel to be published this July. On Saturday, January 30, the graphic novel's creator, comic artis...
January 26, 2010 |
By Erica R. Hendry
Elvis Sightings: The King Holds Court in Washington, D.C.
What comes to mind when you hear the name Elvis? Musician. Icon. Sex. Spandex. Kitsch. Costello (kidding!). You can play the word association game all day long and no matter what your opinion of the man is—good, bad or indifferent—even the most suspicious minds have to admit that he is one of the g...
January 06, 2010 |
By Jesse Rhodes
Weekend Events: ZooLights, Art Workshop and Hands-On Activities!
The Smithsonian Institution has announced a snow emergency and has closed all its museums, the Zoo, as well as the Udvar-Hazy Center in Virginia on Saturday, December 19 and Sunday, December 20.Friday, December 11: ZooLightsThat’s right kids—ZooLights is back once again! For children of all ages, a...
December 18, 2009 |
By Jesse Rhodes
Weekend Events: Holiday Card Workshop, ZooLights and Music from the Federal Music Project
Friday, December 11: ZooLightsThat’s right kids—ZooLights is back once again! For children of all ages, a menagerie of LED light sculptures modeled after critters at the zoo will be on display. Tickets are required for visitors aged 2 and older and can be purchased at any National Zoo store, at the...
December 11, 2009 |
By Jesse Rhodes
A Thomas Moran Masterpiece Returns to American Art
Recently, the Smithsonian American Art Museum welcomed home a seminal work of landscape painting after a four-month vacation at the Whitney Gallery of Western Art, located at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming.Thomas Moran's 1893-1901 canvas, "The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone," ...
December 01, 2009 |
By Audrey Reinhardt
Linda Nochlin Speaks at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Linda Nochlin, the Lila Acheson Wallace Professor of Modern Art at the New York University Institute of Fine Arts, pioneered the study of women and art with her groundbreaking 1971 essay, "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?" Considered the foremost scholar of feminist art history, she has ...
November 17, 2009 |
By Abby Callard
Events for the Week of 11/16-20: Free Movie Admission for Cell Phones, Stargazing, New Deal Artists and the Films of John Ford
Monday, November 16: Free Admission to Wild Ocean 3D for Recycled Cell PhonesDo the environment a favor and part with your old cell phone in an ecologically friendly way—and catch a movie in return. From now until November 22, visitors who present a cell phone for recycling at the theater's box off...
November 16, 2009 |
By Jesse Rhodes
Events for the Week of 11/2-6: Dorothea Lange, John Singer Sargent, Zoo Photography Club and More!
Monday, November 2: National Family Literacy DayKnowledge is power (I know, it's an overused phrase—but it's true) and today is a great day to encourage the people in your family to pursue a lifetime full of reading. Enjoy storytelling sessions as well as theatrical performances that tie in to perm...
November 02, 2009 |
By Jesse Rhodes
