SAAM Stories

After Hideo Kojima's appearance he posed with fans dressed in Metal Gear Solid costumes.

Video game fans are legendary. The audience shows its excitement at hearing Hideo Kojima speak.

The Art of Video Games opened yesterday and as part of our opening festivities GameFest is well underway this weekend. We will be posting images throughout the day.

The Art of Video Games exhibition opens TOMORROW! We asked the curator, Chris Melissinos, about the exhibition, and what he hopes people will experience when they visit the galleries.

We're gearing up for the opening of The Art of Video Games this Friday. I know, I know, it's hard to wait; but while you are take a look at our trailer for the show.

Alli Jessing, Joint Programs Coordinator for the Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery, gives us a peek at our upcoming screening of Seth Gordon's documentary The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters.

This post is part of an ongoing series on Eye Level: "Q and Art" and is the successor to our series "The Best of Ask Joan of Art." Begun in 1993, Ask Joan of Art was the longest-running arts-based electronic reference service in the country. We retired the service late last year but want to continue to bring you interesting questions and answers about art and artists from our archive.

What's in a frame? More than a painting, as I discovered after talking to Martin Kotler, frames conservator for the American Art Museum.

Thornbush Blues Totem by John Scott will be featured in our upcoming exhibition, African American Art: Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights Era, and Beyond. In preparation, museum conservators and art handlers moved the eight-foot tall sculpture up to the conservation labs for examination and treatment. Staffer Mary Tait described the experience:

Dance, stamp, roll, press, and print! Join us for a Mardi Gras themed Take 5! jazz concert and printmaking workshop in the Kogod Courtyard, Thursday, February 16th from 5-7 p.m.

When you hear the name Felrath Hines, you may at first say "Who?" but after viewing some of his work, including the recently acquired Abstract Landscape and Radiant, you may ask why you hadn't heard of him before.

"Getting my art on . . ." That's what one visitor said she liked to do when she comes to American Art's Luce Foundation Center.

On Tuesday, January 24, a couple of hours before the President delivered his address to Congress, Annie Leibovitz presented her own state of the union to a sold-out audience at American Art's McEvoy Auditorium.

The Art of Video Games exhibition opens in less than two months (on March 16, 2012), so things are getting a little hectic around the museum!

American Art's Renwick Gallery is celebrating its 40th year—40 years of the best in American craft, decorative arts, exhibitions, and programs. To commemorate this milestone, we challenged our visitors to design a postcard to help us celebrate.

To celebrate the opening of The Art of Video Games exhibition, we will be holding three jam-packed days of events and activities from Friday, March 16 through Sunday, March 18, 2012.

This post is the first of an ongoing series on Eye Level: "Q and Art" and is the successor to our series "The Best of Ask Joan of Art." Begun in 1993, Ask Joan of Art was the longest-running arts-based electronic reference service in the country.

Pilgrimage is a personal journey by photographer Annie Leibovitz, celebrated over the decades for her astute portraits of the cultural landscape.