American Art Elsewhere

George Washington Wearing a Toga?

July 29, 2010

Horotio Greenough’s statue of George Washington on the Capitol grounds (photographer and date unknown) is from the American Sculpture Photograph Study Collection, Photograph Archives (S0001154). Before construction began in 1884 on the world's tallest stone structure, the Washington Monument, commemorating...

Gaman and the Story of Isamu Noguchi

June 22, 2010

Isamu Noguchi, Interned at Poston, Arizona, Bust of Ginger Rogers, Pink Georgia marble, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, © Isamu Noguchi Foundation, Inc., New York. Of all the stories of internees in the relocation camps for Japanese Americans during World...

We Remember Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010)

June 1, 2010

Louise Bourgeois's Maquette for Facets to the Sun. The sculpture can be found at the Norris Cotton Federal Building in Manchester, New Hampshire. American artist Louise Bourgeois died on Monday, May 31, at the age of ninety-eight. Born in France...

The Art of Gaman: The Bird Artist

May 20, 2010

Wes Yamaka recently wrote a comment about his father-in-law on our The Art of Gaman exhibition comment page. We'd like to post it on Eye Level as a testament to the personal stories that have been passed down from internees...

Picture This: Duct Tape and the Running Fence

March 30, 2010

Christo talking with curator George Gurney and exhibition designer David Gleeson. Photo by Jerry Hovanec Running Fence, the monumental temporary artwork by Christo and Jeanne-Claude existed for only two weeks in September of 1976. It was made of 240,000 square...