Celebrating Elizabeth Catlett with the Denyce Graves Foundation Singers
• March 25, 2025

Listen to singers from the Denyce Graves Foundation in a concert honoring the exhibition Elizabeth Catlett: A Black Revolutionary Artist, on view through July 6, 2025. Titled Art and Soul: […]

Late August at the Hotel Ozone
• February 28, 2025

This brilliant gem of the Czechoslovak New Wave follows the lingering effects of a nuclear war that has wiped out most of humanity. A small group of survivors—all women—roam the […]

A. W. Mellon Lectures: II. The Measure of Freedom and Slavery
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This is the second of four lectures in America’s Architecture of Freedom and Unfreedom, the 74th A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts presented by Mabel O. Wilson of […]

Art Bites Gallery Talk
• May 22, 2024

Join SAAM’s research fellows for this lunchtime series of gallery talks as they share new discoveries about artworks on view. Learn the stories behind these objects and how each one […]

Virtual “Subversive, Skilled, Sublime: Fiber Art by Women” Lecture with Mary Savig
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Join Mary Savig, the Lloyd Herman Curator of Craft, for a lecture about the exhibition “Subversive, Skilled, Sublime: Fiber Art by Women”, now on view at SAAM’s Renwick Gallery. The […]

Art Bites Gallery Talk
• May 14, 2024

Join SAAM’s research fellows for this lunchtime series of gallery talks as they share new discoveries about artworks on view. Learn the stories behind these objects and how each one […]

Ciné-Concert: The Blood of a Poet
• January 23, 2024

New score performed live by Matthew Nolan and Erik Friedlander The Blood of a Poet (Le Sang d’un Poète), the first part of Jean Cocteau’s Orphic Trilogy, is considered one […]

Elegant in Life, Ambiguous in Death: A High-Status Mummy from Northern Coastal Peru
• November 30, 2023

The exceptionally well-preserved Moche mummy known as the Señora de Cao was buried at the El Brujo ceremonial complex in northern coastal Peru around 500 CE. Her unusually rich and […]

The Washington Winter Show
• November 21, 2023

The Washington Winter Show was founded in 1955 for the purpose of raising funds for local charities serving the needs of at-risk children and families by sponsoring an annual show […]

Converse with a Conservator: Alma Thomas
• October 10, 2023

Join SAAM’s Paintings Conservators for a conservation-focused tour through the exhibition “Composing Color: Paintings by Alma Thomas”. Participants will be able to explore the works while getting insight into the […]