Few months working with him. Some of you may already have been through our new Exhibit Opening just under two weeks ago on the second floor in the mountain gallery, cattle cowboys and culture. If you have not, i would strongly urge you to. It is just a fascinating collection. Im talking about a large collection of artifacts. Art and other objects that illuminate the connection that i was not aware of down through history going back through the cattle days between city of kansas city and amaral, texas. It is so big, part of its buildout into the first floor. You may have seen the big saddle their. It is a terrific exhibit. This pointremiss at before getting to michael. Introduce her in the back back there. She is our library arts exhibit direct her perch she has worked with michael. She is responsible for all both great exhibit to see all the great exhibits you see in our gallery. She does a terrific job. Michael is really responsible exhibit being here and bringing it to us. He is the
For moving reconciliation legislation. So theres something known as the byrd rule where the Senate Parliamentarian ruled that three provisions, two related to some education tax issues as well as striking the short title of the bill, those provisions were not ruled in order on this reconciliation legislation, so they had to scrub that of the bill, bring it back to the house, vote for it. Its really nothing more than a forn formality. House leadership has proven they have the votes to pass. All of that activity yesterday seemed to grind to a halt the deliberations in the rules committee on 2018 federal spending, the continuing resolution and the back and forth reflected in this headline of your piece with jennifer shut saying house gop readies ping pong match with senate on the stop gap measure. Whats that mean . Yeah. So me and jennifer, my colleague paul, we have confirmed with gop aides and with lindsey mcfer phn is they are trying to bifurcate the defense bill. And send it to the se
Strategically to share his values. It was also the golden age of photographer in america and that is why this subject is of interest to us at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and hopefully you. Here at the museum we focus on telling the stories of the American Experience. From folk art to photographer as well as painting and sculpture and skracrafts and media arts. Our exhibition, john f. Kennedys life and times which you can view on the second floor in the graphic arts gallery is a premier event among many organized by the kennedy president ial library in this centennial year. I am stephanie stebich, the director of the american smithsonian art museum. Saam is what we call ourselves for short. We have assembled a group of historians and scholars debating the Kennedy Administration and its legacy. Many of you likely remember the Kennedy Administration and the arc of history. We also have several members of congress in the room with us and i want to pause for a moment and acknowledge
Cspan3 continues next with the presidency focusing on the legacy of john f. Kennedy. The Smithsonian American Art Museum hosted this 90 minute event. Good evening. Did you know that john f. Kennedy was the most photographed leader of his day . This may not surprise you since he used photography strategically to share his values and his vision for america. It was also the golden age of photography in america and that is why this subject is of interest to us at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and hopefully you. Here at the museum we focus on telling the stories of the American Experience from folk art to photography as well as painting and sculpture and crafts and media arts. Our exhibition, american visionary, john f. Kennedys life and times, which you can view on the second floor in the graphic arts gallery is a premier event among many organized by the kennedy president ial library in this centennial year. I am stephanie stevish, the director of the Smithsonian American Art Museum
The Smithsonian American Art Museum allowed me to be i guess what you would call a guest curator of this exhibit on jfk. See i was a photographer myself starting in the 50s and i photographed a lot of politicians. I started with Richard Nixon. Governor brown in california. And then of course john f. Kennedy. Many of the events he was present at and tragically i was in dallas when he was assassinated. Why this exhere in the American Art Museum at this time . Well, its centennial of his birth. 100 years ago, on may 29th, he was born. How do you put an exhibit like this together . Where do you start . Well, first you start with a few researchers. And we collected, actually, 34,000 photographs of jfk and his family. It took about six months. And it became the basis of a very important book that we published with harper collins. And from those 34,000 pictures and the 400 some odd pictures in the book, we were able to select 77 photographs that we felt told the story of jfk and his life and