Smithsonian American Art Museum
Special Preview Screening of “Out of the Picture” and Conversation with Art Critics
Smithsonian American Art Museum 750 9th St. N.W., Washington, DC, United StatesIn the final lecture in SAAM’s annual Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture Series, critic Mary Louise Schumacher is joined by fellow art critics Seph Rodney and Hrag Vartanian of Hyperallergic and Jeneé Osterheldt of The Boston Globe for a special preview screening of Schumacher’s film “Out of the Picture”, followed by a conversation with the art […]
Ekphrastic Poetry Workshop
Smithsonian American Art Museum 750 9th St. N.W., Washington, DC, United StatesExplore “Composing Color: Paintings by Alma Thomas” with award-winning poet and journalist Celeste Doaks. Her 2019 book, “American Herstory”, included ekphrastic poems about the art choices made by Michelle Obama to decorate the White House. Doaks will lead the group through her process of writing ekphrastic poetry and then teach attendees how to create their […]
Virtual and In-Person Lecture with Scholar Shirley Reece-Hughes
Smithsonian American Art Museum 750 9th St. N.W., Washington, DC, United StatesScholar Shirley Reece-Hughes, curator of painting, sculpture, and works on paper at the Amon Carter Museum, discusses her recently opened exhibition “The World Outside: Louise Nevelson at Midcentury”. This exhibition illuminates Nevelson’s multidimensional mastery of form and attunement to postwar American culture. Nevelson was an avid collector of objects, and she assembled various found wooden […]
American Voices and Visions: Modern and Contemporary Art Open House
Smithsonian American Art Museum 750 9th St. N.W., Washington, DC, United StatesJoin SAAM’s curatorial and conservation staff for a series of gallery talks exploring the newly reimagined and reinstalled modern and contemporary art galleries, as well as a look at our special exhibitions, Many Wests: Artists Shape an American Idea and Musical Thinking: New Video Art and Sonic Strategies. These projects highlight many voices—including artists who identify as Asian […]
Carrie Mae Weems: Looking Forward, Looking Back
Smithsonian American Art Museum 750 9th St. N.W., Washington, DC, United StatesThis focused exhibition pairs two projects by Carrie Mae Weems—a major multimedia installation, Lincoln, Lonnie, and Me – A Story in 5 Parts, and eight photographs from the series Constructing History—that explore the relationship of memory to history and of memory as it is mediated through performance, photography, or video. Weems invites others to step back in […]