Smithsonian American Art Museum
Events: "Born to be Wild 3D," Smithsonian Craft Show, Disco at the Postal Museum
Monday April 11 Born to be Wild 3DBorn to be Wild 3D features the conservation efforts of primatologist Birute Galdikas with orangutans in Borneo, along with that of Dame Daphne Sheldrick's work with elephants in Kenya. Both women live near the animals, rescuing them and returning th...
April 11, 2011 |
By Michelle Strange
The Smithsonian Museums and The National Zoo Are Open
All Smithsonian museums and the National Zoo are open.Don't miss out on all the events and happenings, all scheduled as planned. Tarantula feedings at the Natural History Museum. A special tour of the Kinsey Collections at American History. An Earth Day celebration at the American Art Museum.And he...
April 08, 2011 |
By Beth Py-Lieberman
Events: FONZ Photo Club, Mad Science, Mars and More
Monday April 4: FONZ Photo ClubIf you’re a shutterbug with a penchant for snapping shots of critters, come on out to the National Zoo and participate in the Friends Of the National Zoo (FONZ) photo club’s monthly meeting. Share your photos, hear from speakers and learn about new techniques that may...
April 04, 2011 |
By Michelle Strange
Weekend Events: Home School Open House, Nanotechnology and Play PHEON on Your Phone
Friday, April 1: Home-School Open House The Portrait Gallery Education Department hosts this home-school open house with mini-tours of special exhibitions, story time for children, hands-on arts activities and resources, including a Smithsonian Field Trip Kit. Free, but registration is required...
March 31, 2011 |
By Jesse Rhodes
For St. Patrick's Day, 7 Must-See Snakes Around the Smithsonian
Here at the ATM blog, our St. Patrick's Day celebration this year is all about snakes and serpents. For it was these slithery reptiles that St Patrick was supposed to have driven into the sea, banishing all of that nation's snakes from the land. Turns out, though, there are lots of snakes at the Sm...
March 17, 2011 |
By Arcynta Ali Childs
Get Your Favorite Video Games Into the American Art Museum
If you grew up with video games, and have piles of cartridges, diskettes and CD-ROMs lying around your home, you've more or less been curating your own personal exhibition of video game art in the comfort of your own home. But in your esteemed opinion, what games stand out as testaments to technolo...
March 16, 2011 |
By Jesse Rhodes
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
The List: 7 Ways to Celebrate Women's History Month
March is Women's History Month, and all around the Smithsonian Institution, the museums are celebrating the achievements, aptitude and sheer awesomeness of women in both the arts and sciences.1. If you don't know your Grace Hartigan from the Harlem Renaissance or Miriam Schapiro from the suffrage m...
March 09, 2011 |
By Arcynta Ali Childs
Events: West African Dance, an Online Poetry Workshop, Learn About Juliette Gordon Low and More
Monday, March 7: March Film Screening: My Name Is KahentiiostaKahentiiosta, a young Kahnawake Mohawk woman, took part in a 78-day armed standoff in 1990 as a part of a land dispute between the Mohawks and the Canadian federal government. Arrested and imprisoned, she was detained longer than her pee...
March 07, 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
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
Family Pictures: Close to Home @ Smithsonian American Art Museum
There’s inevitably a distance between a photographer and his or her subject. But in the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s new exhibition that opened last Friday, Close to Home: Photographers and Their Families, that distance is reduced, as photographers document their own families in their own pers...
February 08, 2011 |
By Jeff Campagna
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: Benedict Arnold on Trial, String Quartet Performance and Portrait Gallery Activities
Friday, January 28: Historic Theater: Time Trials of Benedict ArnoldBenedict Arnold is generally remembered as a traitor—but has popular opinion clouded historical fact? Take a spot on the jury panel, meet Benedict Arnold and decide if this infamous Revolutionary War figure was a patriot or a total...
January 28, 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
Weekend Events: Painting, Woodworking and a Dance Party
Friday, January 21: Painting Techniques of Henry Ossawa TannerMuseum conservators Amber Kerr-Allison and Brian Baade present findings of their recent study and analysis of six of Tanner’s works in the permanent collection, including the newly conserved Flight into Egypt. Learn how Tanner’s document...
January 21, 2011 |
By Jesse Rhodes
Events: Gullah Culture, Sci-Fi Film, Gallery Talks and More
Monday, January 10Book Signing: Mike Brown: Astronomer Mike Brown, the man who demoted Pluto from a planet to a dwarf planet, signs copies of his book How I Killed Pluto. Free. Air and Space Museum, Udvar-Hazy Center, 2:00-4:00 PMTuesday, January 11The Sierra Leone—Gullah Link, Part 1: Moderate...
January 10, 2011 |
By Jesse Rhodes
