Video Games Make It to the Level of Art
We talk a lot these days about the effect of technology--sweeping, growing like mushrooms, constantly changing every nano-second--of our lives ...
Museum
Joan Miró's Work Examined in Landmark Exhibition
Joan Miró: The Ladder of Escape, (its final and only venue outside of Europe ) will be on view at the ...
Smithsonian Craft Show Celebrates America's Creative Spirit
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Smithsonian Craft Show Celebrating the Creative Spirit of America which will take ...
Shows of Lights and Darks Elucidate at the Hirshhorn
Museum exhibitions are not always user-friendly. There is an occasional air of intimidation or coldness about them, as if you ...
Tour Like a Local, Live Like a Tourist
If you live here, you’ve probably visited all the major monuments on the mall, and maybe a few of the galleries. It can be easy to take so many great resources for granted, though. Cruise through the National Mall on Duck Boat or Segway, or get up close and personal with hundreds of butterflies and other insects at the National Museum of American History.
The Making of a Museum: The Birth of the Smithsonian
It is ironic that the bastard son of the Duke of Northumberland left the family name on what was to ...
'Elvis at 21' at the National Portrait Gallery
It’s been 54 years since photographer Alfred Wertheimer spent time with a budding, national phenomenon named Elvis Presley, traveling with him to New York, Richmond, Virginia, on a train ride to Memphis and Elvis’ pre-Graceland home. Wertheimer's exhibition captures the most intimate and human photos of the King perhaps ever taken.
Chris Murray on Elvis
Chris Murray, director of the Georgetown's Govinda Gallery and co-curator of the "Elvis at 21" exhibition, now at the National Portrait Gallery, talks about all things Elvis and the Washington art scene.
The Making of a Museum
How the glorious National Gallery of Art got its start when a friend lent Paul Mellon the keys to his apartment.
'Hide/Seek'
Pity the National Portrait Gallery and its director Martin Sullivan.
Weeks after mounting the astoundingly comprehensive, direct and illuminating exhibition ...
The Dawn of Photography
The question of art at the dawn of the age of photography was a question that was asked with great passion and answered in infinite ways by several generations of photographers. Two current exhibitions, at the National Gallery of Art and the Phillips Collection, take up the banner of that debate.
'Telling Stories'
Norman Rockwell can't get a break. Every time there’s a big exhibition of his works — as there is now at the Smithsonian American Art Museum — you can bet that someone, somewhere in the art world is going to scream bloody murder. What's behind the animosity?
'Beat Memories'
Consider “Beat Memories: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg,” the new, nostalgic photographic exhibition at the National Gallery of Art.
