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Picture This: Behind-the-Scenes at the Renwick's Grand Salon

June 13, 2013

American Art conservators take great care when dusting the paintings in the Renwick Gallery's Grand Salon. Related: Read about our other behind-the-scenes conservation work here at American Art.

Picture This: Paikbot Family Day

May 7, 2013

Spontaneous Art - Exquisite Motion Corpse: 4 stacked TV screens. The top shows video clips of visitor’s and random heads, the middle of torsos, the bottom two are legs! As part of our activities surrounding the exhibition Nam June Paik:...

Picture This: Slow Art at American Art

May 1, 2013

Public Programs Coordinator Laurel Fehrenbach, center, leads a discussion with Slow Art participants at American Art American Art participated in this year's Slow Art Day, one of over 265 museums world-wide. One of the paintings we discussed was Untitled by...

Picture This: Behind-the-Scenes with Thomas Day, Master Craftsman and Free Man of Color

April 12, 2013

Exhibition specialist Jim Baxter, along with Work Study student Paige Johnson, install final touches to our latest exhibition: Thomas Day: Master Craftsman and Free Man of Color up now through July 28, 2013. To see more of the installation, take...

Picture This: An American in London, George Catlin and His Indian Gallery

March 8, 2013

Our George Catlin paintings on display at the National Portrait Gallery in London. Photo courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery. One of the highlights of our American Art collection are the over 400 artworks in 19th century painter George Catlin's...