Artist John Grade installing "Middle Fork" for the exhibition WONDER at the Renwick Gallery.
Media Events
Thursday, Oct. 5, 2017; 11 a.m. — Press preview for “Lumia: Thomas Wilfred and the Art of Light"
Thursday, Oct. 19, 2017; 10 a.m. — Press preview for "Murder is Her Hobby: Frances Glessner Lee and The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death" and "Rick Araluce: The Final Stop"
Thursday, Nov. 2, 2017; 11 a.m. — Press preview for "Tamayo: The New York Years"
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- Lumia: Thomas Wilfred and the Art of Light
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- Kara Walker: Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)
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- Murder Is Her Hobby: Frances Glessner Lee and The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death
- Rick Araluce: The Final Stop
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- Installation Wall Text [PDF]
- Tamayo: The New York Years
- Exhibition Press Release (Coming Soon)
- Exhibition Fact Sheet
- Preview Publicity Images and Captions [PDF]
- Exhibition Checklist [PDF]
- Installation Wall Text [PDF] (Coming Soon)
Recent Press Releases
9/20/2017 - Crawford Alexander Mann III Is New Prints and Drawings Curator at SAAM
8/3/2017 — Murder Is Her Hobby: Frances Glessner Lee and the Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death Opens October 20 at the Renwick Gallery
6/28/2017 — Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Third Annual “SAAM Arcade” To Feature 40 Independent Games
6/20/2017 — Susanneh Bieber Awarded the Smithsonian American Art Museum's 2017 Terra Foundation for American Art International Essay Prize
6/1/2017 — No Spectators: The Art of Burning Man Opens March 30, 2018 at the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Renwick Gallery
5/30/2017— “America Now: JFK 100” at Three Smithsonian Museums
5/18/2017 — New Installation Parallax Gap Opens July 1 at the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery
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