Stories for November 2007

Applying Comics

November 27, 2007

Bernice Ellis Lunder; The Comics Quilt; probably Omaha, Nebraska; 1935; cotton; appliquéd, embroidered, and quilted; Lent by the Stuhr Museum of the Prairie Pioneer, Grand Island. Explore this quilt in detail. Detail of Comic Quilt: Clarabella A few weeks ago...

Different Strokes: Helen Frankenthaler

November 26, 2007

Helen Frankenthaler's Small's Paradise I plan to make this post the first in a series on technique and medium. Paint. The stuff that gets under the artist’s fingernails, and can barely be scrubbed away. I love paint. I love color....

10,053!

November 20, 2007

Here's the spin on Sunday's festivities. Over ten thousand people (including lots of children) attended our Friends and Family festival marking the opening of the Kogod Courtyard. Eye Level blogged a record eight stories that day (whew!), documented with many...

Magic

November 18, 2007

With the new glass canopy in place, the courtyard itself becomes a place of changing light, in a sense, alive. Now, late in the day, the bright light of high noon has been replaced with mid- to late-afternoon light—a pale...

Music to My Ears

November 18, 2007

Museum intern Mary Savig did some sleuthing on the courtyard's sound: Usually we go to art museums to, well, look at art. Today, the Kogod Courtyard is a feast for both the eyes and the ears! As I walked amidst...

Fifteen Minutes...Going on Sixteen

November 18, 2007

Top:Even Mr. Warhol himself (aka Anthony Chavez) couldn't miss opening day. Bottom: First time museum visitors Sarah Struck and Nick Easter work on their Warhol-inspired collages. Andy Warhol said famously that everyone in the future will be famous for fifteen...

Hats Off, Hands On

November 18, 2007

One of the coolest things going on this afternoon is the area where you can make your own hats. You begin by working with a basic shape of a hat but whatever else you add is really up to your...

The Sky's the Limit

November 18, 2007

Museum-Goers Enjoy the Opening of the Kogod Courtyard Kogod Courtyard, Smithsonian American Art Museum

Courtyard Buzz

November 18, 2007

Shirley and Catherine at the Festival's Bead Making Station Museum intern Mary Savig spoke with several visitors on their reasons for coming to the grand opening: Architecture aficionados, Ira and Kim came specifically to see the Norman Foster/Foster + Partners...

Courtyard Flickr Photos

November 18, 2007

www.flickr.com This little widget shows some of the photos from today's courtyard festival that we've uploaded to our Flickr group. I've been handing out postcards with the URL's to our blog, home page, and Flickr group to every visitor I...

Courtyard Officially Opens!

November 18, 2007

Courtyard Visitor Documents Canopy It's a little after noon on Sunday and the Kogod Courtyard is now open. The sun is shining through the beautiful new glass canopy, and it's the perfect day to spend some time listening to music...

New Flickr Group for SAAM/Renwick

November 16, 2007

SAAM's got a new Flickr group. There are already some great pictures of our new courtyard, which opens to the public this Sunday (November 18th) at 11:30 a.m. Look for us wearing our Eye Level buttons and bring your camera!...

Walk on Water, Please!

November 16, 2007

Self-portrait, standing on water feature in the Kogod Courtyard. You can see the criss-cross pattern of the courtyard's canopy in the water's reflection. The water will be turned off for the Friends and Family Festival this Sunday (so there's enough...

Raise the Roof! Our Courtyard Opens Sunday!

November 16, 2007

Workers put finishing touches on Kogod Courtyard for its debut November 18. Photo Credit: David S. Holloway/Reportage by Getty Images for Smithsonian Institution Workers putting the finishing touches on our awesome new Lord Norman Foster/Foster + Partners-designed Kogod Courtyard. This...

Jenny Holzer: Word on the Street

November 9, 2007

When I think of the work of contemporary artist Jenny Holzer I think of words--xenon text projected onto the facades of buildings, such as the recent installations at the New York Public Library, Ground Zero in Lower Manhattan, and the...