Press Room
Current Press Releases
1/17/2012
Press Release — Smithsonian American Art Museum Presents New Exhibition The Art of Video Games; Exhibition Opens March 16
12/15/2011—UPDATED 1/19/2012
Press Release — Exhibition of New Work by World-Renowned Photographer Annie Leibovitz Opens Jan. 20 at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
11/11/2011
Fact Sheet — Building a Better Mousetrap: Patent Models from the Rothschild Collection
11/2/2011
Advance Exhibition Schedule 2011 — 2013
10/26/2011
Press Release — Prints by Major Contemporary American Artists Featured in New Exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
10/24/2011
Press Release — Smithsonian American Art Museum Names Tiarna Doherty New Chief Conservator
9/27/2011
Press Release — "Something of Splendor:" Decorative Arts from the White House Opens at the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Renwick Gallery Oct. 1 — Rare Look at Objects in the White House Collection
9/7/2011
Press Release — Smithsonian American Art Museum Announces Bresler Endowment to Support Curator Position at its Renwick Gallery
8/15/2011
Press Release — Smithsonian American Art Museum Announces 2011–2012 Fellowship Appointments
8/12/2011
Fact Sheet — Installation Made in Chicago: The Koffler Collection Opens Aug. 12
7/14/2011
Press Release — Exhibition Dedicated to Innovation in 19th-Century America Opens at the Smithsonian American Art Museum July 15
7/13/2011
Press Release — "Something of Splendor:" Decorative Arts from the White House Opens at the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Renwick Gallery Oct. 1 — Rare Look at Objects in the White House Collection
6/14/2011
Press Release — Exhibition Dedicated to Innovation in 19th-Century America Opens at the Smithsonian American Art Museum July 15
6/14/2011
Press Release — Museum Presents Summer 2011 Programs to Accompany “The Great American Hall of Wonders”
5/5/2011
Smithsonian American Art Museum Announces Results of Public Voting for Games to be Featured in “The Art of Video Games” Exhibition
4/29/2011
Press Release — Smithsonian American Art Museum Organizing 2012 Exhibition "The Civil War and American Art" as Part of Civil War Sesquicentennial Commemoration
4/21/2011
Press Release — Kristina Wilson Is Awarded the 23nd Annual Eldredge Prize for Her Book The Modern Eye: Stieglitz, MoMA and the Art of Exhibition, 1925–1934
4/21/2011
Press Release — Patricia Junker Receives Seventh Annual Frost Essay Award
4/21/2011
Press Release — Alex J. Taylor Receives Second Annual Terra Foundation for American Art International Essay Prize
4/5/2011
Advisory — Voting deadline extended to April 17 for The Art of Video Games
4/1/2011
Advance Exhibition Schedule 2011 — 2013
3/30/2011
Press Release — Smithsonian American Art Museum to Create Education Center and Expand Its National Outreach Programs
3/23/2011
Press Release — Smithsonian American Art Museum Meets the Challenge for New Curator of Craft Position at its Renwick Gallery
3/22/2011
Press Release — Smithsonian American Art Museum Announces Artists Selected for Exhibition 40 under 40: Craft Futures Opening in 2012 at Its Renwick Gallery
3/3/2011
Press Release — Exhibition Dedicated to Innovation in 19th-Century America Opens July 15; United States Patent and Trademark Office Collaborating with Museum for Educational Outreach
2/23/2011
Press Release — History in the Making: Renwick Craft Invitational 2011 Opens at the Renwick Gallery March 25
2/14/2011
Press Release — Smithsonian American Art Museum Invites Public to Vote on Games to be Featured in The Art of Video Games Exhibition
2/3/2011
Press Release — New Exhibition About 1940s America and Artist George Ault Opens March 11 at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
2/1/2011
Press Release — Save America’s Treasures Grant Awarded to the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum
2/1/2011
Fact Sheet — Close to Home: Photographers and Their Families
1/5/2011
Press Release — Smithsonian American Art Museum Presents Art and Science Lecture Series
1/4/2011
Fact Sheet — To Make a World: George Ault and 1940s America
12/16/2010
Press Release — Pierre Huyghe Is the 2010 Winner of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Contemporary Artist Award
12/1/2010
Press Release — New Installation of Recent Media Art Acquisitions Opens at the Smithsonian American Art Museum Dec. 10
11/12/2010
Press Release — Museum Announces Early Holiday Hours For Rockwell Exhibition
11/8/2010
Press Release, Update — First Major Retrospective of Paintings by Alexis Rockman Opens Nov. 19
10/1/2010
Advance Exhibition Schedule 2010 — 2012
9/17/2010
Press Release — El Museo de Arte Americano del Smithsonian anuncia el nombramiento de E. Carmen Ramos como Curadora de Arte Latino
9/16/2010
Press Release — Smithsonian American Art Museum Announces the Appointment of E. Carmen Ramos as Curator for Latino Art
9/1/2010
Press Release — Smithsonian American Art Museum Offers Largest Mission-Based Game Ever Designed through Its Luce Foundation Center
8/31/2010
Press Release — Exhibition of Recent Gifts of Wood Art from the Bresler Collection Opens at the Renwick Gallery Sept. 24
8/27/2010
Fact Sheet — John Gossage: The Pond Opens Aug. 27
8/24/2010
Press Release — First Major Retrospective of Paintings by Alexis Rockman Opens Nov. 19
8/13/2010
Advisory — Fourth Annual Washington Nationals Baseball Family Day
7/26/2010
Advance Exhibition Schedule 2010 — 2012
7/23/2010
Press Release — Smithsonian American Art Museum Hosts Scouting Family Day
7/20/2010
Press Release — Sergio Cortesini Receives First Annual Terra Foundation for American Art International Essay Prize
6/29/2010
Press Release — Smithsonian American Art Museum Presents Educational Initiatives in Conjunction with Major Norman Rockwell Exhibition
6/22/2010
Fact Sheet — A Revolution in Wood: The Bresler Collection at the Renwick Gallery
6/22/2010
Fact Sheet — Alexis Rockman: A Fable for Tomorrow
6/21/2010
Press Release — Smithsonian American Art Museum Presents Two Performances By Airmen of Note in Celebration of Telling Stories
6/15/2010
Advisory — Press Preview June 29 for Telling Stories: Norman Rockwell from the Collections of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg
6/14/2010
Press Release — First Major Exhibition to Explore In-Depth Norman Rockwell's Connections to Hollywood and the Movies Opens July 2
6/9/2010
Press Release — Smithsonian American Art Museum Announces 2010-2011 Fellowship Appointments
5/17/2010
Press Release — Kirk Savage Is Awarded the 22nd Annual Eldredge Prize for His Book about the National Mall and the Transformation of Memorial Spaces
4/20/2010
Press Release — First Major Exhibition to Explore In-Depth Norman Rockwell’s Connections to Hollywood and the Movies Opens July 2
4/19/2010
Fact Sheet — Telling Stories: Norman Rockwell from the Collections of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg
4/12/2010
Advance Exhibition Schedule 2010 — 2012
4/9/2010
Fact Sheet — The Great American Hall of Wonders
4/9/2010
Fact Sheet — John Gossage: The Pond
3/30/2010
Fact Sheet — Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Remembering the "Running Fence"
3/29/2010
Press Release — John Ott Receives the 2009 Frost Essay Award
3/8/2010
Press Release — Jules Feiffer, David Hackett Fischer and James M. McPherson to Headline 2010 "American Pictures"
2/24/2010
Press Release — "The Art of Gaman" Opens at the Renwick Gallery March 5
2/23/2010
Press Release — Smithsonian American Art Museum Presents Exhibition That Celebrates "Running Fence" by Christo and Jeanne-Claude
1/11/2010
Press Release — Major Exhibition of Photographs by Timothy O'Sullivan Opens at the Smithsonian American Art Museum Feb. 12
1/7/2010
Advance Exhibition Schedule 2010 — 2012
