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Media Contact: Rebecca Basu (202-885-5950) basu@american.edu
AU Museum at Home
To ensure our community’s safety, the American University Museum’s doors are temporarily closed. Return to our Museum@Home in 2021 for highlights from our permanent collection, TBTs in celebration of our 15th Anniversary, online events, and more. Stay tuned for a new exhibition and event series launching virtually in February! Until we reopen, connect with our Museum@Home on social media and subscribe to our mailing list. Please visit our homepage for updates, and AU's COVID-19 webpage for more information and resources.
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Dress up your background with installation shots from the AU Museum! We have released a selection of Zoom backgrounds from recent exhibitions in celebration of our 15th Anniversary.
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Virtual events
INTERFERENCE New Music Collective
January 14, 7:30-9PM
James Renwick Alliance Distinguished Artist Series
Artist spotlight
Brian Dailey's "JIKAI"
Thus hath the candle singed the moth.” — William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
Like the moth drawn to the light in this video’s hypnotic dance with death, we are all irresistibly attracted to danger despite knowing its potential for negative consequences. Making an allusion to Shakespeare’s line in The Merchant of Venice, the moth in Brian Dailey’s JIKAI is a metaphor for self-destruction and its fluttering around a light bulb is a meditation on societal disintegration. Dailey’s installation WORDS was featured at the AU Museum in Winter 2018.
Brian Dailey, JIKAI, 2013. Single-channel video, Running time: 4 min. 55 sec. Courtesy of the artist.
The Long Sixties
AU Museum Director and Curator Jack Rasmussen presents on our forthcoming exhibition "The Long Sixties," featuring Washington paintings from our Watkins and Corcoran Legacy Collections. Rasmussen previewed the exhibition in conjunction with American University's Virtual Family Week.
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Image:
Nancy Van Meter, Barbie Petticoat: Like A Flower Waiting for the Bee, 1999. Cyanotype photogram, sheet: 4 1/4 × 4 in. American University Museum, Gift from the Trustees of the Corcoran Gallery of Art (Gift of the artist), 2018.15.1887.
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Family activities
Get creative with us at home!
Start a conversation about conservation with this paint-pouring activty.
Inspired by Edward Burtynsky's Water
Get creative with us at home!
Play with scale in this collage activity.
Inspired by Terry Braunstein's Who Is She?
