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In the news release, BET Networks to Host Inaugural Ball Presented by AT&T at Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery issued Jan. 17, 2013 by BET Networks over PR Newswire, we are advised by the company that some information has been updated. The complete, corrected release follows: BET Networks to Host Inaugural Ball Presented by AT&T at Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery Official Sponsors Include AT&T, Marriott, Hennessy...
Records of more than 40,000 artworks in the Smithsonian American Art Museum's collection will be connected to a digital library of art information in an easily searchable, seamless format LOS ANGELES, Dec. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The USC Viterbi School of Engineering's Information Sciences Institute (ISI) is collaborating with the Smithsonian American Art Museum to provide more detailed and more easily accessed information about artworks in its collection online than was...
Activities, Hands-on Demonstrations, Education Displays and Tours Celebrate 20 Years of Smithsonian Teachers' Night WASHINGTON, Sept. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The annual Smithsonian Teachers' Night is Friday, Sept. 28, from 7 to 9:30 p.m. at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery, collectively known as the Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture. The museums are located at Eighth and F streets N.W. This year is the 20th...
MIAMI, Aug. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- This summer two major paintings by Cuban master Rafael Soriano were given to the Smithsonian American Art Museum for its permanent collection. These two works, Un Lugar Distante (A Distant Place) (1972) and Candor de la Alborada (Candor of Dawn) (1994), represent significant moments in Soriano's artistic production. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120827/DA62843-a) (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120827/DA62843-b)...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online The Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. has partnered with Google to launch a new indoor map application this week to help visitors navigate 17 of the Smithsonian’s museums, including the Air and Space Museum, the Natural History Museum and the American History Museum. "An increasing number of our visitors now turn to their mobile devices and familiar applications to help them find their way and get information about the...
The Smithsonian American Art Museum is asking the public to help select video games that will be included in its "The Art of Video Games" exhibit.The exhibit will be the first one to explore the art and visual effects of gaming. The Art of Video Games is scheduled to open in March 2012 with a focus on the evolution of games as an artistic medium over the past 40 years. The public will be allowed to vote online through April 7, where they will be able to choose from 80 games from a...
CHARLOTTE, N.C., Sept. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- American Craft Week, October 1-10, is a coast-to-coast celebration featuring more than 200 events where the public will meet artisans for whom crafting is a business. The festivities promise artful and fun answers to the question, "What is still made in America?" Watch a glassblower or cabinetmaker at work. Tour pottery studios or fine craft galleries. Art strolls, exhibitions, open houses, craft demonstrations, trunk shows and festivals are...
Art historian David W. Scott, the founding director for the National Museum of American Art in Washington, reportedly has died at the age of 92. Scott joined the museum in 1963 when it was known as the National Collection of Fine Arts and helped raise the Smithsonian Institute site's stature, the Los Angeles Times reported Saturday. Scott determined to build the NCFA into a museum of consequence, author Sophy Burnham said in her The Art Crowd book about the New York and Washington art...
