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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “smithsonian”

 

• D.C. Museums and the National Zoo Delay Openings Today

  
  Around The Mall — Authority: 410
  The Smithsonian Institution today announced that it will delay the openings of all the Washington, DC area museums and the National Zoo until 11 a.m.
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• How Two Vocal Homophobes Are Sodomizing Art: Gertrude Stein Edition

  
  Art Fag City — Authority: 599
  Photo of Alice Toklas and Gertrude Stein at home by Man Ray, included in the Smithsonian exhibition (via: NY Times) Remember that crazy-ass homophobe who spearheaded the successful campaign to censor Hide/Seek at the Smithsonian? That same conservative sensationalist, Penny Starr, is now trying to censor a ...
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• $7.5M gift to fix Washington Monument

  
  Exhibit A Baltimore — Authority: 137
  WASHINGTON — A billionaire history buff has stepped forward to donate the $7.5 million matching gift that’s needed to start repairing cracks near the top of the Washington Monument caused by last summer’s East Coast earthquake.Businessman David Rubenstein told The Associated Press he was inspired to help ...
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• Astronomers Find Three Smallest Planets Outside Solar System

  
  Paternal Prose — Authority: 146
  ScienceDaily (Jan. 11, 2012) — a team of astronomers led by scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has discovered the three smallest confirmed planets ever detected outside our solar system. the three planets, which all orbit a single star, are smaller than Earth and appear to be rocky with a ...
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• Video game exhibition coming to the Smithsonian American Art Museum

  
  Gadling — Authority: 598
  Filed under: Arts and Culture , North America , United States Gamers: put "World of Warcraft" on pause, lay down your controllers, and take note. Beginning on March 16, the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC , will open the first major exhibition of video games. The Art of Video Games will show ...
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• Smithsonian details upcoming art exhibit on gaming (AP)

  
  zehx blog - game news and game online information — Authority: 135
  – Wed Jan 18, 8:48 am ET WASHINGTON – The Smithsonian American Art Museum is announcing details of its first major exhibit exploring the art and evolution of video games. The unusual exhibit opens March 16, and will be on view in Washington through Sept. 30. “The Art of Video Games” will focus on ...
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• Historian Amy Henderson: Food, Glorious Food

  
  Around The Mall — Authority: 410
  Guest blogger and Portrait Gallery historian Amy Henderson. This post is part of our on-going series in which ATM invites the occasional post from a number of Smithsonian Institution guest bloggers: the historians, researchers and scientists who curate the collections and archives at the museums and research ...
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• Repost: Photographs? Well, not technically.

  
  Cindy Dyer's Blog — Authority: 110
  Originally posted 1.28.2010 and 1.28.2011 A few years ago I dabbled in scanning flowers on my Epson flatbed scanner and got some pretty good results. The technique works best if you can cover the flower arrangement with a dark piece of fabric or black cardboard. While the original images were nice “record” ...
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• Events January 17-19: The Loving Story, Blanket Cylinder Series and Beat the Blues

  
  Around The Mall — Authority: 410
  Learn the story behind Dale Chihulys Blanket Cylinder Series at the Renwick Gallery. Image courtesy of the American Art Museum. Tuesday, January 17 The Loving Story Learn about the dramatic story of Mildred and Richard P. Loving in this documentary about the 1967 landmark Supreme Court decision, Loving v. ...
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• Party Round Up: Washington D.C. Celebrates The BET Honors

  
  Guest of a Guest - NYC People, Places, Parties & Nightlife — Authority: 539
  Its not an awards show without pre-parties, after-parties, and insider dinners. Fromthe pre-dinners to the after parties, we have all the info on who was where in D.C. MORE>>
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• Shout - Explore, Connect, Act

  
  Free Technology for Teachers — Authority: 584
  Shout is a global learning project coordinated by the Smithsonian, Microsoft Partners in Learning, and Taking IT Global. The purpose of Shout is to get students thinking about environmental science and to take local action on behalf of their environments. This years Shout theme is " Water Matters ." This years events ...
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• Why did the tortoise cross the road? A recent study reveals few ever do.

  
  Smithsonian Science — Authority: 406
  Scientists studying genetic variation and gene flow in a population of tortoises ( Gopherus agassizii ) in California’s Mojave Desert, were surprised recently to discover that two roads built in the desert in the 1970s had a noticeable impact on the population’s genetic structure. Tortoise pairs from the same side ...
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• Parking lot, 1955

  
  Hemmings Auto Blogs — Authority: 545
  Another great shot from the Smithsonian American Art Museum ‘s online archives, this one by Frank Paulin of a parking lot in an unidentified city (sure looks like Manhattan to me), dated 1955. It makes us wonder: While this fits in perfectly with our series of parking lot and street scenes, providing plenty of ...
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• Preview: Black Wings

  
  TVFirstLook — Authority: 125
  Smithsonian Channel Puts a Spotlight on African-American Aviatorssmithsonianchannel.comFor early aviators, conquering the forces of gravity was a daunting challenge. But black aviators had an additional challenge - to conquer the forces of racism.[On Black Wings - Smithsonian Channel, 8pm], meet the men and women of ...
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• Left-Wing Fascination with the “Sexy” Occupy Movement

  
  Texas Gop Vote — Authority: 469
  An AP story in the online USA Today described the efforts of American museums and collectors----The Smithsonian Institute, the Museum of the City of New York, the Museum of Jewish Heritage in lower Manhattan, the Queens College and more--- to amass artifacts and electronic records about the Occupiers. The formal ...
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• Chinas Long March to the Moon

  
  Lunar Pioneer — Authority: 110
  The PRCs planned unmanned lunar expeditions this decade include a sample return mission [CLEP]. Paul D. Spudis The Once and Future Moon Smithsonian Air & Space Controversy quickly followed astonishment with the recent release of a white paper outlining China’s intentions in space.  ...
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• The Smithsonian is Paying Tribute to Art in Games

  
  GotGame News — Authority: 128
  Who says video games aren’t art? (Aside from Roger Ebert, but I try to blank out that fact because I like his opinions on most other things.) The Smithsonian Museum thinks the art of games are worth recognizing, and we’ve got to agree with them. They’ll be launching GameFest, a dedication to the Art of Video ...
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• Smithsonian American Art Museum Exhibit – The Art of Video Games “GameFest”

  
  N00bAlert - Video Games, Video Game News and Video Game Reviews — Authority: 128
  Maybe you didn’t get enough Panels and Video Game goodness at MAGFest or missed it entirely.  Well the Smithsonian American Art Museum would like to help out with that as they have just announced the details of GameFest .  GameFest is a three day event designed to celebrate the upcoming exhibition The Art of ...
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• The Smithsonian’s Going to Throw a GameFest to Celebrate The Art of Video Games and You Should Totally Go [Culture]

  
  Kotaku — Authority: 797
  The Art of Video Games and You Should Totally Go" href="http://kotaku.com/5875791/the-smithsonians-going-to-throw-a-gamefest-to-celebrate-the-art-of-video-games-and-you-should-go" class="pp_image"> The Art of Video Games and You Should Totally Go" alt="Click here to read The Smithsonian’s Going to Throw ...
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• VIDEO: Totem pole carver revives dying art

  
  top99news - breaking news from the world top newspapers — Authority: 163
  http://www.bbc.co.uk VIDEO: Totem pole carver revives dying art David Boxley has carved a totem pole made from the trunk of a 500-year-old red cedar tree for an exhibition at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian in Washington DC. published date:Fri, 13 Jan 2012 01:55:05 GMT
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