American Art Everywhere

Slow Art Day: Leaning Towards a Different Way of Looking at and Loving Art

April 23, 2013

On Saturday, April 27, American Art will be one of the over 240 museums around the world that will be hosting Slow Art Day. The event is free to the public. Jeff Gates took some time to talk with Slow...

Art Critic Adam Gopnik on What Makes American Art American

October 25, 2012

Taking a stab at what defines American art, Adam Gopnik, art critic at The New Yorker, spoke to a standing-room only crowd at the museum's McEvoy Auditorium, as the second (of three) speakers in this year's Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture...

We Remember Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011)

January 9, 2012

Helen Frankenthaler's Summerscene, Provincetown Helen Frankenthalter, the last of the Abstract Expressionists, died on December 27, 2011, at the age of eighty-three. In 1951, when she was only twenty-three, she began to soak, or stain, her canvasses with extremely thin...

Encuentros: Artistic Exchange between the U.S. and Latin America

October 4, 2011

Anima (Alma/Soul) by Ana Mendieta Beginning tomorrow, October 5, the American Art Museum will be hosting a two-day symposium called Encuentros: Artistic Exchange between the U.S. and Latin America. The symposium will examine artistic exchanges between the United States and...

Luce Unplugged: Q&A with Tierney Sneeringer

June 2, 2011

Luce Unplugged, an acoustic concert series in the museum's Luce Foundation Center for American Art is the creative genius of Tierney Sneeringer, a program assistant at the Center. Each month, Tierney brings in an emerging, local talent to perform and...