npr:It’s been a cold winter in Washington, D.C., but over at the…
Laurel Roth Hope, Regalia, 2011, mixed media including fake fingernails, nail polish, barrettes, false eyelashes, jewelry, walnut and Swarovski crystal. Courtesy of the artist and Gallery Wendi Norris
Fred Tomaselli, Migrant Fruit Thugs, 2006, leaves, photo collage, gouache, acrylic and resin on wood panel (Courtesy of Glenstone)
Walton Ford, La Historia Me Absolvera, 1999, color etching, aquatint, spit-bite and drypoint on paper. (Courtesy of the artist and Paul Kasmin Gallery)
Barbara Bosworth’s 2003 Indigo Bunting shows a bird about to be set free after being branded with a migration tracker. (Smithsonian American Art Museum)
npr:
It’s been a cold winter in Washington, D.C., but over at the Smithsonian’s American Art Museum, there’s a flutter of exotic real and imaginary birds, created by 12 contemporary artists, in an exhibit called “The Singing and the Silence: Birds in Contemporary Art.”
You can almost hear the winged creatures in the museum’s galleries — they’re so vividly and variously on view. A few — in photographs by Barbara Bosworth — are barely visible. In one photo, the teeny head of a blue-winged warbler pokes out between two fingers of a woman’s hand — she’s banding the bird with a migration tracker before setting it free.
Beautiful Bird Exhibit Spotted At Smithsonian
Image credits: Smithsonian American Art Museum
The caption makes it seem like maybe that’s supposed to be a blue-winged warbler in the last photo. Which of course it isn’t; that’s a (gorgeous) male indigo bunting.
After my reflexive outrage had passed I read more carefully, and realized that no, the text isn’t referring to that image, though it seems possible that the person who made the post might have intended for the photo to reference the text at least obliquely.
Whew. Being a birder in a world of non-birders is a minefield of misidentifications that cry out for correction. Imagine it, gentle reader: A photo of Tom Hiddleston accompanied by Johnlock fic. A set of OITNB gifs captioned with Jane the Virgin meta.
Aah! Pandemonium!
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