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Converse with a Conservator: Paintings Care
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Like many of those who’ve spent the best part of the last 10 months in their homes, I’ve invested in some new wall decor. Like a typical millennial, mine mostly hangs unframed, suspended by teetering nails and sticky tape. But once I level up to the point of having framed investment pieces on my wall, I’ll be ready, because the Smithsonian American Art Museum is teaching me (and all of you) how to care for the art in our homes and how that care compares to the preservation of pa
Wander through three centuries of American art
The Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC is one of the largest and most expansive collections of American art in the world. The museum’s two locations, the main building in Penn Quarter and the Renwick Gallery located next to the White House, represent thousands of artists spanning hundreds of years.
Journey through America’s artistic development by viewing 17th- and 18th-century paintings from from the colonies of New Spain and New England, then make your way through the 19th century art collection, which highlights the Western migration, impressionism and the Gilded Age. A visit to this museum is as encompassing a museum experience as one can find.
Process and invention: Four West Coast photographers expanding the medium
Meghann Riepenhoff, Ice #78 (29-34℉, Big Creek, WA 03.09.20), 2020. Unique Dynamic Cyanotype, 42 x 88 inches.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA
.- From the landscape photography of Ansel Adams and Carleton Watkins to Eadward Muybridges panorama of San Francisco, the West Coast of the United States has long been an epicenter of American photography. Process and Invention, a new viewing room by Haines Gallery, brings together works by four photographers whose analog practices draw from this storied lineage while expanding the possibilities of their chosen medium.
The images and alternative processes of John Chiara, Binh Danh, Chris McCaw and Meghann Riepenhoff owe as much to this history of photography as they do to the West Coasts stunning and varied environs. Together, they represent an exciting new generation of artists who are reinvigorating handmade photography in our digital age.
SMITHSONIAN CASTLE AND GARDENS – The Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C. comprised of 19 museums and the National Zoo plus other research centers located throughout the U.S. and beyond, has gone virtual with online learning and exhibits for students and teachers during the pandemic. Courtesy Photo by the Smithsonian Institute
BY LAURIE HANSON • December 30, 2020
Unity and enlightenment in challenging times is brought to the nation and world through online education with the Smithsonian Institution.
“The Smithsonian has the power to bring people together,” said Ashely Naranjo, who serves as museum educator at the Smithsonian’s Office of the Under Secretary for Education in Washington, D.C., and has been with them since 2011.
Rebuilding a culture of beauty
Tuesday, December 29, 2020 |
Robert Knight - Guest Columnist Knight
In order to achieve equality, everything had to be leveled and replaced with the gray, lifeless forms of a totalitarian society.
President Trump thinks we should stop paying for ugly government buildings.
On December 21, he announced the formation of a “President’s Council on Improving Federal Civic Architecture.” He wants more of the kind of buildings that tourists flock to see and fewer that resemble Soviet-style “brutalist” designs.
In 2007, my wife and I were in Warsaw, Poland for a World Congress of Families conference. During our cab ride from the airport, we saw miles and miles of ugly modernist architecture foisted on the Polish people by their communist masters.