Listen, listen. This is a story about paper, printing, and a book. But first, it is a story about music.
Category: Art and Design
The Smithsonian American Art/National Portrait Gallery Library (AAPG) would like to share some of its recent additions to its collections
The Smithsonian American Art/National Portrait Gallery (AAPG) Library’s collection has many special treasures. Few are unique items, but those that are unique are quite special.
The Libraries would like to highlight some new titles that have been added recently to the Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum Library.
At the Smithsonian American Art Museum an exhibit called To Make a World: George Ault and 1940s America is showing until September 5, 2011. This exhibit features the work of painter George Ault during the years surrounding World War II. In addition to the artwork by Ault, the exhibit also features the paintings of Rockwell Kent, Edward Hopper, and Norman Rockwell.
In Woody Allen’s latest film Midnight in Paris, a modern-day writer finds himself repeatedly traveling back in time to Paris at the height of the 1920’s. While there he meets a number of the period’s famous writers and artists, from Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein to Salvador Dali and Pablo Picasso. Seeing this film made me want to learn more about the fascinating lives of these people, so I decided to research Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, who in the film introduce us to the world of Paris in the twenties.
Douglas Litts has been appointed Supervisory Librarian of the AAPG Library. Doug has been serving as the acting Supervisory Librarian at AAPG for more than a year, and before that time was a Reference Librarian at the AAPG Library.