Explore the Smithsonian American Art Museum through rich media. Here we post slide shows, podcasts, and other resources that present our collection in new and engaging ways.
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Our Most Recent Interact
Podcasts
Listen to our podcast on photography at SAAM (via mp3 or iTunes).
Listen to SAAM's podcast on our sculpture collection (via mp3 or iTunes).
Listen to SAAM's podcast on artist Sean Scully (via mp3 or iTunes).
Watch our first videocast on SAAM's Lunder Conservation Center (via Quicktime or iTunes).
Listen to SAAM's podcast The Renwick Gallery (via mp3 or iTunes).
Listen to SAAM's podcast The American South (via mp3 or iTunes).
Listen to SAAM's podcast The American West (via mp3 or iTunes).
High school students create podcasts about American art at SAAM.
Listen to SAAM's podcast on Early 20th Century American Art (via mp3 or iTunes).
High school students create podcasts about American craft: A Sound Take on Craft at our Renwick Gallery (via our blog Eye Level)
Webcasts
2007 Clarice Smith Lectures: James Rosenquist
2007 Clarice Smith Lectures: David Driskell
2007 Clarice Smith Lectures: Benjamin Forgey
A Sense of Place: Artists' Roundtable, William Christenberry, Betye Saar, David Beck and David Bates
From the Ground Up Renwick Craft Invitational 2007: Artists' Roundtable, Paula Bartron, Jocelyn Châteauvert, Beth Lipman, and Beth Cavener Stichter
2006 Clarice Smith Lectures: David Park Curry
2006 Clarice Smith Lectures: Maya Lin
2006 Clarice Smith Lectures: Jed Perl
American Art in a Global Context, An International Symposium: Day 1, Day 2, Day 3
Interactives
Anatomy of a Painting: Honoré Sharrer's Tribute to the American Working People (via The Smithsonian Archives of American Art)
Gallery: Visit the workshop of Joseph Cornell's Wonderland in this QTVR from our recent exhibition Joseph Cornell: Navigating the Imagination
Slide Show: Ruth Duckworth, Modernist Sculptor
Slide Show: Joseph Cornell: Navigating the Imagination
Gallery: Podcasts and Media Coverage
Gallery: Send an Ecard from the Smithsonian
Gallery: Meet Me at Midnight. Do you dare?
Speaking of Pictures: Abbott Handerson Thayer's My Children (Mary, Gerald, and Gladys Thayer)
Slide Show: View the prints of William H. Johnson from his upcoming exhibition William H. Johnson's World on Paper
Gallery: Explore the virtual studio of Grant Wood
Zoom It: Margo Humphrey's The History of Her Life Written across Her Face
Slide Show: Take a sneak peek of the Renovation of a Dazzling Showcase
Ask the Artist: William Christenberry Answers Your Questions
Ask the Artist: William Christenberry
Speaking of Pictures: Charles Burchfield's Orion in December
Slide Show: Wings of Fantasy
Gallery: The restoration of an artwork
Speaking of Pictures: John Quidor's The Headless Horseman Pursuing Ichabod Crane
Zoom It: John Le Farge's Peacocks and Peonies II
Slide Show: View the conservation of Harry Bertoia's Sculpture Group Symbolizing World's Communication in the Atomic Age
Speaking of Pictures: Thomas Le Clear's Interior with Portraits
Gallery: If you missed the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, we have some video highlights.
Slide Show: Preview our exhibition, Modernism in American Silver: 20th-Century Design
Zoom It: James Hampton's The Throne of the Third Heaven
Speaking of Pictures: John Singer Sargent's Elizabeth Winthrop Chanler (Mrs. John Jay Chapman)
Zoom It: Pepón Osorio's El Chandelier
Online Exhibition: Arte Latino
Zoom It: Thomas Hart Benton's Achelous and Hercules
Online Exhibition: Browse SAAM's Collection
Zoom It: Nam June Paik's Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii
Online Exhibition: Campfire Stories with George Catlin
Zoom It: Larry Fuente's Game Fish
Online Exhibition: Henry O. Tanner: A Mystical Painter