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Archives Hosts Lunch Lectures for FotoWeek DC

We are proud to support this first annual gathering of the photography community in the nation’s capital from Nov. 15-22.
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Additional Portraits of Artists Now on Flickr

The Smithsonian continues to provide new images weekly to the Flickr Commons, a photo-sharing website.
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The Rembrandt and Harriet Peale Papers have been digitized and added to Collections Online.

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Benefit: the Smithsonian Institution Archives of American Art Annual Benefit

October 30, 2008 - The Archives saluted the careers of artists Joel Shapiro and Ellen Phelan, and art dealers Joan T. Washburn and Virginia M. Zabriskie with the Archives of American Art Medal at our annual New York Benefit. In addition, the Lawrence A. Fleischman Award for Scholarly Excellence in the Field of American Art History was presented to Neil Harris.

See photos from the event at flickr.com/groups/aaabenefit

Photos from the 2008 Archives of American Art Benefit

Eighth Annual Raymond Lecture
with Jerry Saltz

April 2008 - Senior art critic for New York Magazine Jerry Saltz presented the Archives' eighth annual Raymond Lecture with his talk, "Overplayed, Just Getting Started, or Out of Gas: An art critic looks at where art is, what the market is doing to it, and how art is and is not fighting back."

Saltz captivated his audience of collectors, critics, scholars, and art enthusiasts through his animated style of lecturing, complete with slides, colorful stories, and audience participation.

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Archives Hosts Lunch Lectures for FotoWeek DC

Additional Portraits of Artists Now on Flickr

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Eighth Annual Raymond Lecture with Jerry Saltz

Eighth Annual Raymond Lecture
with Jerry Saltz