ArtJamz: An Evening of Jazz and Painting at the Smithsonian
WASHINGTON, DC—Every third Thursday, the Smithsonian’s American Art Museum hosts a free live jazz concert in its airy Kogod Courtyard. Between the jazz musicians and the painters, it was a lively evening at…
A Cast of Ordinary ‘White’ People by George Segal
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON, DC—Before consulting the exhibition labels, the relationship between the mysterious woman peering out of a window from behind a sheer drape and the man tooling about on some kind of industrial…
Smithsonian Featuring Choice Example of Louise Nevelson’s Wood Wall Sculptures
WASHINGTON, DC—An amazing, large-scale black wall sculpture dominates an alcove at the end of the contemporary gallery of the Smithsonian’s American Art Museum. “Sky Cathedral” by Louise Nevelson (1899-1988) is an intricately detailed…
Meaningful Thoughts: Kerry James Marshall’s ‘SOB, SOB’
WASHINGTON, DC—There is a compelling, large-scale work by Kerry James Marshall hanging just inside the contemporary gallery at the American Art Museum. A woman sits on the floor before a bookcase from which…
Using Wood Planks, Whitfield Lovell Conjures a Texas Resident in ‘Echo I’
WASHINGTON, DC—Although she is attired in a fine-looking dress, the expression on this woman’s face shows as much despair as the wood on which she is drawn. The engaging work by Whitfield Lovell…
