Five Question Interviews

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...

Jazz Appreciation Month: A Tribute to Dave Brubeck

April 19, 2013

Brubeck Institute's Jazz Quintet Jazz Appreciation Month: A Tribute to Dave Brubeck In celebration of Jazz Appreciation Month, the Smithsonian American Art Museum will present a concert in tribute of the late Dave Brubeck by the Brubeck Institute's Jazz Quintet...

Nam June Paik: Musician and Media Artist Stephen Vitiello Interviews Composer Ryuichi Sakamoto

April 9, 2013

Stephen Vitiello, electronic musician and media artist, interviewed Academy Award- and Grammy Award-winning musician and composer, Ryuichi Sakamoto, before they perform their tribute Strange Music for Nam June Paik, part of the Art & Process program on Sunday, April 14....

Mingering Mike: Just for the Record

February 26, 2013

Eye Level had a chance to speak with Leslie Umberger, curator of folk and self-taught art, about the museum's recent acquisition of the Mingering Mike collection, comprised of well over one hundred pieces of musical ephemera made between 1965 and...

War and Paint: Art of the Civil War

November 15, 2012

Eastman Johnson's Negro Life at the South. Eye Level had a chance to speak with Eleanor Harvey, senior curator at American Art, and curator of the new exhibition, The Civil War and American Art, opening at the museum on November...