https://www.smithsonianmag.com/rss/blog/archives-american-art/RSS feed for Archives of American ArtenThu, 23 Apr 2026 20:51:48 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/archives-american-art/2026/04/23/artist-matt-mullican-to-present-lecture-mirrors-and-melted-telephones-on-april-27/The Archives of American Art presents the Holt/Smithson Foundation 2026 Lecture with artist Matt Mullican.Thu, 23 Apr 2026 20:51:48 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/archives-american-art/2026/04/23/artist-matt-mullican-to-present-lecture-mirrors-and-melted-telephones-on-april-27/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/archives-american-art/2026/01/16/january-programs-at-the-archives-of-american-art/What can archives show us about solidarity today? Two programs explore legacies of activism and parenthood in artFri, 16 Jan 2026 21:45:04 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/archives-american-art/2026/01/16/january-programs-at-the-archives-of-american-art/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/archives-american-art/2025/06/06/extended-reality-artist-armando-lopez-bircann-premiers-interactive-performance-extended-bloom-on-june-10/How does art help us envision the future? Registration is open for "Extended Bloom," an interactive performance by artist Armando Lopez-BircannFri, 06 Jun 2025 14:16:31 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/archives-american-art/2025/06/06/extended-reality-artist-armando-lopez-bircann-premiers-interactive-performance-extended-bloom-on-june-10/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/archives-american-art/2025/01/27/smithsonians-archives-of-american-art-announces-articulated-season-four-showcasing-its-oral-history-collection/Season 4 of "Articulated" chronicles the lives and work of ceramicist and textile artist Anita Fields (Osage), muralist Leo Tanguma, painter and photographer Lenore Chinn, and painter Pat Steir as they've navigated their careers over the decadesMon, 27 Jan 2025 21:30:55 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/archives-american-art/2025/01/27/smithsonians-archives-of-american-art-announces-articulated-season-four-showcasing-its-oral-history-collection/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/archives-american-art/2023/11/16/what-does-a-1990s-supermodels-swimsuit-calendar-tell-us-about-archives/Connections between Colin de Land, the gallery space Four Walls, and Claudia Schiffer demonstrate how archival collections are interrelatedThu, 16 Nov 2023 14:13:55 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/archives-american-art/2023/11/16/what-does-a-1990s-supermodels-swimsuit-calendar-tell-us-about-archives/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/archives-american-art/2023/03/01/new-collections-oral-history/Ben Gillespie, the Arlene and Robert Kogod Secretarial Scholar for Oral History, reflects on four oral history interviews recently conducted for the Archives of American ArtWed, 01 Mar 2023 14:00:22 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/archives-american-art/2023/03/01/new-collections-oral-history/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/archives-american-art/2023/02/15/new-collections-robert-bechtle-papers-and-tom-wudl-papers/Two collections of California artists are now part of the Archives of American ArtWed, 15 Feb 2023 14:06:40 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/archives-american-art/2023/02/15/new-collections-robert-bechtle-papers-and-tom-wudl-papers/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/archives-american-art/2022/12/22/new-collections-robert-hughes-papers/The personal papers of art critic Robert Hughes offer insights into his seminal series "The Shock of the New"Thu, 22 Dec 2022 16:43:35 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/archives-american-art/2022/12/22/new-collections-robert-hughes-papers/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/archives-american-art/2022/11/17/new-collections-marjorie-kreilick-papers/The papers of artist and educator Marjorie Kreilick highlight her contribution to mosaic and public artThu, 17 Nov 2022 15:55:43 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/archives-american-art/2022/11/17/new-collections-marjorie-kreilick-papers/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/archives-american-art/2022/10/26/take-me-out-to-the-archives/A collection of artist baseball cards, “Artball, from the artist Don Celender, arrive in the collections just in time for the World SeriesWed, 26 Oct 2022 14:16:14 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/archives-american-art/2022/10/26/take-me-out-to-the-archives/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/archives-american-art/2022/10/20/the-tools-we-use/For American Archives Month, Archives of American Art Staff are sharing tools, both analog and digital, they use to make collections accessibleThu, 20 Oct 2022 14:44:14 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/archives-american-art/2022/10/20/the-tools-we-use/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/archives-american-art/2022/08/18/new-collections-interviews-with-native-artists/Recent interviews conducted with Native artists are now part Archives of American Art's Oral History CollectionThu, 18 Aug 2022 14:27:24 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/archives-american-art/2022/08/18/new-collections-interviews-with-native-artists/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/archives-american-art/2022/07/14/new-collections-connie-zehr-papers-and-cherie-raciti-papers/Gerald and Bente Buck West Coast Collector Matthew Simms reflects on two new collections of women artists now at the Archives of American Art.Thu, 14 Jul 2022 14:43:50 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/archives-american-art/2022/07/14/new-collections-connie-zehr-papers-and-cherie-raciti-papers/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/archives-american-art/2022/06/30/new-collections-emanuel-martinez-papers/Josh T. Franco writes about the large addition to the Emanuel Martínez Papers, now in the collections of the Archives of American Art, illuminating Martínez'a work with incarcerated youth and involvement in the Chicano movementThu, 30 Jun 2022 15:03:40 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/archives-american-art/2022/06/30/new-collections-emanuel-martinez-papers/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/archives-american-art/2022/06/08/new-collections-michele-c-cone-papers/The papers of art historian, critic, and curator Michèle C. Cone are now at the Archives of American Art.Wed, 08 Jun 2022 19:00:05 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/archives-american-art/2022/06/08/new-collections-michele-c-cone-papers/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/archives-american-art/2022/03/30/how-playing-with-failure-led-students-to-archival-exploration/An assignment created in the Teaching with Primary Sources workshop proved that playing with failure and be fruitful, fascinating, and funWed, 30 Mar 2022 19:04:52 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/archives-american-art/2022/03/30/how-playing-with-failure-led-students-to-archival-exploration/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/archives-american-art/2022/03/24/how-artist-benny-andrews-and-an-archival-assignment-inspired-an-hbcu-student/For an assignment created in the Archives of American Art's Teaching with Primary Sources Workshop, Professor Elizabeth Hamilton had students use archives of artists with connections to HBCUsThu, 24 Mar 2022 11:44:01 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/archives-american-art/2022/03/24/how-artist-benny-andrews-and-an-archival-assignment-inspired-an-hbcu-student/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/archives-american-art/2022/03/17/how-a-survey-course-assignment-connected-students-with-contemporary-artists/Students of one Teaching with Primary Sources workshop participant forged connections with contemporary artists and their work in an assignment using the Archives of American Art's Pandemic Oral History ProjectThu, 17 Mar 2022 11:25:22 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/archives-american-art/2022/03/17/how-a-survey-course-assignment-connected-students-with-contemporary-artists/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/archives-american-art/2022/03/10/chiura-obatas-american-landscape-art/The Chiura Obata Papers were the source for an assignment created in the Archives of American Art's Teaching with Primary Sources workshopThu, 10 Mar 2022 12:55:59 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/archives-american-art/2022/03/10/chiura-obatas-american-landscape-art/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/archives-american-art/2022/03/02/join-us-for-on-the-edge-an-event-with-the-archives-of-american-art-and-bakersfield-museum-of-art/Don't miss this special tour of "On the Edge: Los Angeles Art, 1970s–1990s, from the Joan and Jack Quinn Family Collection"Wed, 02 Mar 2022 13:00:07 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/archives-american-art/2022/03/02/join-us-for-on-the-edge-an-event-with-the-archives-of-american-art-and-bakersfield-museum-of-art/