Lectures on American Art
Jean Shin
July 6, 2009
Jean Shin's Everyday Monuments If you're walking through a city, say New York or Washington D.C., you may want to have Jean Shin by your side. You may know your way around familiar streets, but through Shin's eyes you'll be...
Collecting African American Art
May 29, 2009
Dr. Walter O. Evans. Dr. Walter O. Evans, named one of 'America's Top 100 Collectors' by Art & Antiques magazine in 2006, spoke the other night as part of the Collectors' Roundtable series on "Collecting outside the Canon." He began...
Roz Chast on Charles Addams: Laughter, Tears, and Boiling Oil
May 19, 2009
Renowned New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast was the fourth and final speaker in this year's American Pictures Distinguished Lecture Series and often had the crowded auditorium in stitches. Like many people, I came to love Chast's work through the pages...
Jamaica Kincaid on Being Kept In
May 5, 2009
Edward Lamson Henry, Kept In, 1889, oil, 14" x 18", Fenimore Art Museum, New York State Historical Association On a recent Saturday afternoon writer Jamaica Kincaid offered ninety minutes of personal remembrances in one of the most interesting and heartfelt...
Collectors' Roundtable: Keith F. Davis on Collecting Photographs
April 13, 2009
American Art's Southworth and Hawes daguerreotype: A Bride and Her Bridesmaids The Hallmark Photo Collection (yes, that Hallmark) began in the early 1960s, and was even displayed in a gallery on the ground level of their flagship store in Manhattan....
John Waters on Cy Twombly
March 30, 2009
Letter of Resignation XXXI by Cy Twombly, 1967, © Cy Twombly "You make me feel so respectable," writer and filmmaker John Waters wryly remarked after a rousing welcome to the Smithsonian American Art Museum, then added, "We'll see what we...
Cory Arcangel and Media Arts at American Art
March 11, 2009
Cory Arcangel, installation view of Super Mario Movie, 2005 Not having grown up a joystick jockey, Cory Arcangel's lecture and work, presented at the American Art Museum on Thursday March 5, helped me ‘get' video games for the first time....
Frank Gohlke's World in Black and White (and sometimes color)
February 18, 2009
Frank Gohlke, Chemical Brook enters the Sudbury River, Ashland, Massachusetts, December 1991, Chromogenic development print, Collection of the artist, © 1991 Frank Gohlke On Thursday evening, January 29, photographer Frank Gohlke presented Stories in the Dirt, Stories in the Air,...
Collector's Roundtable: Art and the Law
December 9, 2008
Joshua Kaufman Who'd have thought that spending an hour and a half with a lawyer could be so entertaining? Local attorney Joshua Kaufman of Venable LLP enlighted the audience at American Art the other night on the legal issues of...
Collector's Roundtable: Lewis Nerman at Smithsonian American Art on October 28
October 27, 2008
Lewis Nerman Lewis Nerman is a passionate collector of contemporary art. In 2007, he and his family opened the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art in Overland Park, Kansas. A major contemporary gallery in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art is also...
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