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Smithsonian removed American Art Museum director after staff complaints

The Smithsonian Institution quietly removed the director of the Smithsonian American Art Museum this summer and placed her in another role, following years of complaints from staff about her ...
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Smithsonian American Art Museum Reexamines Narratives of the American West in Major Exhibition Bringing Together Works by 48 Contemporary Artists

Angel Rodríguez-Díaz, “The Protagonist of an Endless Story,” 1993, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum. Museum purchase made possible in part by the Smithsonian Latino Initiatives Pool and ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Video Artists Set the American Experience to Music

The Smithsonian American Art Museum brings its latest time-based media art to the widest possible audience, including the deaf and hearing impaired Roger Catlin - Museums Correspondent Installation ...
The Grio

Dalila Scruggs named Smithsonian museum’s first African-American art curator

The Smithsonian American Art Museum has its first Augusta Savage Curator of African American Art. According to ARTNews, Dalila Scruggs — an educator and curator with a background in mediums including ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Pictures of Belonging Reveals Hidden Stories of Japanese American Artists

Pictures of Belonging at the Smithsonian American Art Museum spotlights Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné Okubo, three Japanese American women artists whose overlooked stories bring powerful voices ...
The Nation

The Damage Being Done to the Museums in the Nation’s Capital

Our art critic visits the Smithsonian American Art Museum to get a closer look at the Trump administration’s attack on DC arts institutions. The exterior of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and ...
Forbes

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gallaudet University Team Up For Accessible ‘Musical Thinking’ Exhibit

In a press release issued in mid-June, the Smithsonian American Art Museum (henceforth abbreviated as “SAAM”) announced a new exhibit called Musical Thinking: New Video Art and Sonic Strategies. The ...
Hyperallergic

Five American Museums on the Horizon

Filmmaker George Lucas’ plan for a Beaux Arts-style art museum for the Bay Area is under the scrutiny of the public this week through the Presidio Trust, which will determine whether his dream of a ...

LONG LOOK | OPINION: How one 19th-century painting changed my view of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art

When I first visited Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art not long after it opened in 2011, I arrived prepared to be ...
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Smithsonian American Art Museum picks Selldorf Architects for major gallery renovation

Late last week the Smithsonian American Art Museum announced it has picked Selldorf Architects for a major revamp of the galleries in its main building. Selldorf Architects’ work with the Smithsonian ...
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Smithsonian American Art Museum Acquisition of Expansive Collection From Robert Drapkin Doubles Its Authoritative Holdings of African American Photography

Hooks Brothers, "Pullman Porters," undated, silver emulsion photograph, Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Dr. Robert L. Drapkin Collection, Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H.
Hyperallergic

How African-American Museums Are Navigating Book Bans

A July, 1946 photo of Thurgood Marshall and Vivian Burey from The AFRO American Newspaper Archives, will be on view at the Banneker-Douglass Museum in Annapolis, Maryland, for the REVISIT/REIMAGINE ...