Real art discovered at National Air and Space Museum
The normally pencil-necked Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum has mounted an exhibition of fine art in its 211 Gallery, a space where it puts shows that have a cultural relation to aeronautics but not the whiz-bang edutainment draw of, say, a flight simulator. The exhibit consists of selected pieces from the NASM’s 4000+ collection of paintings, sculptures, sketches, and even some textile works related to human aspirations to flight. It features heavy-hitter names, too, like Rauschenberg, Calder, Wyeth, and, uh, Norman Rockwell.
This looks interesting, if you can get past the odd title of the exhibit, “Generous Friends.”
Generous Friends: Building an Art Collection for the National Air and Space Museum