Join SAAM’s curatorial and conservation staff for a series of gallery talks exploring the newly reimagined and reinstalled modern and contemporary art galleries, as well as a look at our special exhibitions, Many Wests: Artists Shape an American Idea and Musical Thinking: New Video Art and Sonic Strategies. These projects highlight many voices—including artists who identify as Asian American, Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and LGBTQ+—presenting a multifaceted view of art in the United States.

12:30 p.m. Many Wests Gallery Talk with Anne Hyland
1:30 p.m. Modern Art Gallery Talk with Melissa Ho
2:30 p.m. Contemporary Art Gallery Talk with Sarah Newman
3:30 p.m. Conservation Gallery Talk featuring Lunder Conservation Center Conservators, Keara Teeter, Dorothy Cheng, and Dan Finn
4:30 p.m. Musical Thinking Gallery Talk with Saisha Grayson

Image credit: Audrey Flack, Queen, 1976, acrylic on canvas, 80 × 80 in. (203.2 × 203.2 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Louis K. and Susan P. Meisel, 2022.11.5