Guest blogger Deborah Check Reeves reflects on the 1994 donation by President Bill Clinton of an L.A. Sax Company Presidential Model saxophone, currently on view in Celebrating Sax: Instruments and Innovation, to the National Music Museum.
Sylvia Yount, Lawrence A. Fleischman Curator in Charge of The American Wing, announces a new installation of works from the late 1930s by Bill Traylor, the pioneer of so-called outsider art.
Glass was present in nearly every aspect of daily life—from a lady’s morning toilette to a merchant’s afternoon business dealings to the evening cena, or dinner.
Roman cameo glass was difficult to produce; the creation of a multilayered matrix presented considerable technical challenges, and the carving of the finished glass required a great deal of skill.
The Roman glass industry drew heavily on the skills and techniques that were used in other contemporary crafts such as metalworking, gem cutting, and pottery production.
For Blake, the Bible was the greatest work of poetry ever written, and comprised the basis of true art, as opposed to the false, pagan ideal of Classicism.
