Smithsonian American Art Museum
November music & film

Not that we have something for everyone, but sometimes it looks like we're trying...

...for the hip-hop lover:

Luce Unplugged
Substantial
Sunday, November 4 @1:30 p.m.


Join us for a staff-led art talk, followed by a musical  performance by hip-hop artist Substantial.  Based in Baltimore, Maryland, Substantial recently released an album, Home is Where the Art Is.

 

Image: Eddie B. Tombs IV

 

  
 

...for the classical music aficionado:

 
Steinway Series
Peabody Conservatory
Sunday, November 11 @3 p.m.

 
Phillip Kolker, former principal bassoon for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and chair of the department of orchestral instruments and organ at the Peabody Conservatory, presents a concert of works for woodwinds and piano by American composers. Kolker will be joined by faculty, colleagues, and recent  Peabody alumni. Free tickets for Steinway Series  concerts are available in the museum's  G Street lobby at 2:30 p.m.
 

 

...for the classic movie fan:

The Civil War and American Art
Film: Gone with the Wind
Saturday, November 17 @1 p.m.

 
Beautiful, spoiled Southern belle Scarlet O'Hara (Vivien Leigh) pines after a  married man while the Civil War rages  through the South. Gone with the Wind  won ten Academy Awards, including  Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay,  Best Actress (Vivien Leigh), and  Best Supporting Actress (Hattie McDaniel,  the first African-American to win an Oscar). 
(Unrated, 1939; 222 minutes, color)

 

 


 

 

For more information on these and the museum's other free, public programs, visit our online calendar! 

 

 

 

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