Arts Post Archive: Jacqueline Trescott
Smithsonian pledges to open an American merchandise shop
The skirmish over product origins between the National Museum of American History and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) was settled this week when the museum promised to open a gift shop devoted to made-in-America products. Sanders had expressed his displeasure at...
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Jacqueline Trescott
| March 11, 2011; 9:00 AM ET |
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Lockheed Martin gives U.S. Army Museum $10 million
The plans for the National Museum of the U.S. Army are marching right along. Lockheed Martin Corp., the global company based in Bethesda, pledged $10 million this week for the museum's education center.With that promise, the museum has raised $55...
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Jacqueline Trescott
| March 10, 2011; 6:30 PM ET |
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Mary Surratt and "The Conspirator"
Hollywood producer Webster Stone entered the world of museum exhibition design with the adrenaline rush he brings to his movies. "We wanted to break it down just like a movie. There's the conspiracy. There's the attacks. There's the arrests," said...
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Jacqueline Trescott
| March 9, 2011; 6:30 PM ET |
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Phillips stacks the abstract deck with Kandinsky and Stella
The Phillips Collection is opening its summer season with solo shows by two celebrated modernists: Wassily Kandinsky and Frank Stella. For Washington museum-goers, it has been quite a while since both artists had individual shows at the city's major museums....
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Jacqueline Trescott
| March 9, 2011; 4:00 PM ET |
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Smithsonian dispatches curator to collect from Wisconsin debates
The National Museum of American History, always on the outlook for current materials, has dispatched a curator to Wisconsin to judge whether signs and buttons from the ongoing labor debates are museum-worthy. Barbara Klark Smith, a curator with the museum's...
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Jacqueline Trescott
| March 8, 2011; 6:10 PM ET |
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National Gallery acquires 1881 landscape by Thomas Moran
Thomas Moran's "Green River Cliffs, Wyoming." (Courtesy of National Gallery of Art) The National Gallery of Art has acquired a key landscape of the untamed American West, its third painting by the celebrated 19th century artist Thomas Moran. "Green River...
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Jacqueline Trescott
| March 3, 2011; 5:05 PM ET |
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