American Art Elsewhere

The Best of Ask Joan of Art: Jacob Lawrence

February 3, 2011

This post is part of an ongoing series on Eye Level: The Best of Ask Joan of Art. Begun in 1993, Ask Joan of Art is the longest-running arts-based electronic reference service in the country. The real Joan is Kathleen...

Pierre Huyghe wins the 2010 American Art Award

December 16, 2010

Pierre Huyghe, The Host and the Cloud, 2009-2010, live experiment. Courtesy of the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York Pierre Huyghe is the 2010 winner of the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Contemporary Artist Award. He is the ninth recipient...

Piece 'a Cake

November 19, 2010

Wayne Thiebaud's Untitled It's Wayne Thiebaud's 90th birthday. So, let's break out the cake and the party favors and celebrate a favorite artist, whose depictions of cakes and other yummy delights, have dazzled us for decades. And for a little...

Critic Mark Feeney on William Eggleston

November 5, 2010

William Eggleston's Tricycle (Memphis), © Eggleston Artistic Trust, Courtesy Cheim & Read, New York Boston Globe photography and arts critic, Mark Feeney, presented his lecture "Four Photographers on Three Wheels: William Eggleston's Tricycle and Before" at American Art's McEvoy Auditorium...

Erica Hirshler: Looking at John Singer Sargent

September 30, 2010

The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit; 1882; Oil on canvas; 221.93 x 222.57 cm (87 3/8 x 87 5/8 in.); Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Gift of Mary Louisa Boit, Julia Overing Boit, Jane Hubbard Boit, and Florence D. Boit...