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The Moving Image: Watch This 2.0

May 10, 2012

Watch This! Gallery at American Art Watch This! New Directions in the Art of the Moving Image, the dynamic exhibition of time-based media has been reinstalled, with new examples of video art that span the last fifty years. It has...

Luce Unplugged: Pairing Art with Music

May 8, 2012

Shark Week, Second String Band by Jon Brack, and Birdlips by Jill Palumbo Nowadays there are lots of riffs on the traditional wine pairing--beer pairings, pickle pairings (perhaps this is only me), and the list could go on. The American...

Seats of Power (and an Occasional Settee)

May 3, 2012

Overmantel, The President's House, about 1824, watercolor on plaster, by Rufus Porter, Gift of the White House Historical Association, 1992, photo courtesy White House Historical Association Behind every good sunrise lurks an inevitable sunset. This Sunday, May 6, Something of...

Open Now: African American Art

April 27, 2012

Installation shots from the African American Art exhibition. (click on montage for larger image). Our latest exhibition, African American Art: Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights Era, and Beyond, opens today and runs through September 30, 2012. The show features a selection...

The Art of Video Games: The Music

April 24, 2012

Photo Courtesy of Austin Wintory. Austin Wintory is the composer behind such video games as Journey and flOw. Wintory will be doing a pre-concert Q&A on April 29th at 2:30 p.m. before the University of Maryland Gamer Symphony Orchestra plays...