Blog Category: Exhibitions

From research to installation to curators’ perspectives, an in-depth look at exhibitions at SAAM and the Renwick Gallery.  

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  Jeopardy! Champion Ken Jennings on Lessons Learned from Alexander von Humboldt 

  “I’ll take Alexander von Humboldt for $500, Alex.”

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  Standing Together

  A Conversation about American Art and Anti-Asian Sentiment in the Age of COVID-19

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  Take Me to Church: A Road Trip In Honor of Painter Frederic Edwin Church

  Looking back at a remembered road trip to Frederic Church's house, Olana, in celebration of the artist's 194th birthday and the exhibition, Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: Art, Nature, and Culture

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  Chiura Obata: Artist Interrupted

  In our time of social distancing, Obata's handwritten notes have us thinking about how we communicate with one another, and how important a simple note can be.

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  Hips Don't Lie: The American Incognitum

  What's a mastodon doing at SAAM? Dr. Advait Mahesh Jukar, a Deep Time Fellow and Paleontologist at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, answers our questions.

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  A Brush with Nature: Alexander von Humboldt and Frederic Church

  Humboldt’s ideas on art, nature, and philosophy helped to shape American artists, including the influential Hudson River school painters

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  The Writing on the Wall

  Why Hearts of Our People exhibition labels have been translated into dozens of Native languages

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  Before There Was Beyoncé, There Was Humboldt

  Meet Alexander von Humboldt, the singular superstar of the 1800s

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  Nam June Paik and New Media at SAAM

  The "Father of Video Art" takes center stage in a new installation and book.

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  Saying Goodbye to Artworks by David Best, Ginny Ruffner, and Michael Sherrill

  Last chance to see three exhibitions at SAAM's Renwick Gallery is January 5, 2020

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  Behind the Screens: Chiura Obata

  Chiura Obata: American Modern contains some of the artist's rarely seen folded screens.

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  The Puck Stops Here: David Levinthal's Hockey Photographs

  Giving America's favorite pastime a run for its money

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  David Levinthal's Modern Romance Photographs

  David Levinthal's photographs shine a light on the darkness of film noir.

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  Burning Man: Through the Fire

  Nearly one ton of hand-written tablets collected at the Renwick Gallery were burned at Burning Man earlier in the month.

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  Dancing with the Spurs: On David Levinthal's Wild West Photographs

  What does the "Cowboy Code" have to do with David Levinthal's photographs?

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  Art Does Have an Impact: Visitors Respond

  Visitors share their memories, hopes, and fears after viewing Artists Respond: American Art and the Vietnam War, 1965-1975.

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