Results for "Art objects"
Design + Archives: Objects for Preparing Food
- Date: December 1, 2015
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Design + Archives takes a look at an exhibition from the Renwick, "Objects for Preparing Food," from 1973.
How Many Objects does the Smithsonian Have?
- Date: January 25, 2018
- Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
- Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_12123,size=250,left]It is a simple answer really: We counted. From 1978 to 1983, the Smithsonian undertook a comprehensive inventory of its collections. It was the first time the Smithsonian had ever tried to count each object in its collections and it was a massive task. Over five years, staff from every museum and research center spent thousands of
17 Objects for 170 Years (Happy Birthday to us!)
- Date: August 10, 2016
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: On the Smithsonian's 170th birthday, here are 17 stories of how items have made their way to our collections!
Television and the Smithsonian: The Allure of Objects
- Date: October 15, 2012
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: Television often uses museum artifacts to impart reality within illusion, but the real objects retain their power and relevancy.
Freer Gallery of Art - Moments in History
- Date: November 9, 2017
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: In honor of the reopening on the Freer Gallery of Art, here's a look at some records that illustrate moments from their history.
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Sharon F. Patton
- Date: September 25, 2019
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: Dr. Sharon F. Patton, Director, Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art, 2003-2008, oversaw the museum’s 9,000 African art objects and welcomed the distinguished Walt Disney-Tishman African Art Collection. Under her leadership, the museum opened its first traveling exhibition and established a visiting artists program. #Groundbreaker
Link Love: 2/8/2019
- Date: February 8, 2019
- Creator: Deborah Shapiro
- Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.
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The Mystery of the Art Room Frieze
- Date: June 19, 2018
- Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_9668,size=200,left]The Art Room, a greatly scaled down successor to the Smithsonian’s original 1857 Gallery of Art, is located on the second floor of the Smithsonian Building (the Castle). It was designed in 1899 by the architectural firm Hornblower and Marshall to house the Smithsonian’s collection of prints and drawings. When the room was first
The World Is Yours: Freer Gallery of Art
- Date: April 15, 2021
- Creator: Kira M. Sobers
- Description: Take a listen to clips from the episode of The World Is Yours about the Freer Gallery of Art.
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The Photography of Art
- Date: November 27, 2009
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
Revisiting Renwick
- Date: January 27, 2015
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: While closed for renovations, here is a look at some historic images of the Renwick Gallery on the anniversary of its opening to the public.
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Art On Message
- Date: February 25, 2010
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="237" caption="Georgia O'Keeffe, 1920, by Alfred Stieglitz, Photographic print, Archives of American Art, Local Number: AAA 440 (fr. 508)."][/caption] I confess, way back when as a student of American Modernism, I was never much interested in Georgia O’Keeffe. I was supposed to be. She was the lone, out-there, woman painter of America;