goSmithsonian - February 2009 - (Page 58) THE BASICS HOURS: 10 to 5:30; closed December 25. ADDRESS: Pennsylvania Avenue at 17th Street, NW PHONE: 202.633.1000 (voice/tape) 202.633.5285 (TTY) WEB: AmericanArt.si.edu goSmithsonian.com METRO: Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum The Renwick Gallery, a branch of the Smithsonian American Art Museum (p.10) located near the White House, is dedicated to the richness and diversity of American craft and decorative arts from the 19th to the 21st centuries. The gallery features works in glass, ceramic, metal, wood and fiber, and takes its name from the building’s architect, James Renwick Jr., who also designed the Smithsonian Castle on the National Mall. M metro ● ● ● Farragut West or Farragut North ® (ORANGE, BLUE AND RED LINES) TIPS • Free walk-in tours are offered weekdays at noon and on Saturdays and Sundays at 1:00. From mid-June to mid-September, tours are offered at noon on Fridays only and at 1:00 on weekends. All tours meet in the Renwick Gallery lobby. To schedule a group tour, call 202-633-8550 at least three weeks in advance. • Paintings in the second-floor Grand Salon recreate the elegant setting of a 19th-century collector’s picture gallery. The Grand Salon is flanked by galleries featuring contemporary American crafts. • Ask at the information desk for a calendar of free events, including conversations with artists, demonstrations and musical performances, or visit goSmithsonian.com. EXHIBITIONS: “The Art and Craft of Greene & Greene” (March 13-June 7) is a retrospective of the architecture and works in decorative arts of California brothers Charles and Henry Greene, exemplars of the American Arts and Crafts movement. “George Catlin’s Indian Gallery” (closes April 26) includes 287 paintings that offer a record of the life and culture of American Indians living on the Plains in the 1830s. CURATOR FAVORITES: Ghost Clock by Wendell Castle, Game Fish by Larry Fuente, Bancketje by Beth Lipman and Bureau of Bureaucracy by Kim Schmahmann. Don’t miss Kim Schmahmann’s 1993 Bureau of Bureaucracy (far left) and Wendell Castle’s 1985 Ghost Clock (left). The best of contemporary American crafts A Grand Salon filled with 19th-century art treasures 58 goSmithsonian.com RENWICK GALLERY, PHOTO BY ROBERT LAUTMAN; © 1993 KIM S. SCHMAHMANN, PHOTO BY DEAN POWELL; © 1985 WENDELL CASTLE, PHOTO BY BRUCE MILLER http://AmericanArt.si.edu http://www.goSmithsonian.com http://www.goSmithsonian.com http://www.goSmithsonian.com
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