When: through January 1, 2014
Although I don't think of the Air and Space Museum as an art gallery, it does have the largest collection of aerospace-themed art in the country. These 50 works on display are part of a 7,000 piece collection. The display is divided into three parts: Visions of Flight (which is largely abstract art with a flight motif), Faces of Flight (which are portraits of people involved in the history of flight or space exploration) and Looking Back (which is art depicting important events in flight or space exploration).
The picture shown here is by Fran Forman, who took old family photographs and combined them with pictures from different cameras using a computer to put together her final works. I don't know that I've seen her work before, but it did seem familiar somehow, as if I'd seen something like it in another exhibit. One of Jeffrey Milstein's works, 49 Jets, is on display; I saw a show of his work at Air and Space a while ago and liked it. I didn't think I'd have much interest in the undercarriages of airplanes, but for some reason they are intriguing.
Of the portraits, I think the ones of Carl Sagan and Neil de Grasse Tyson are the best. Alan Bean also has a piece in this show, and I was happy to see him again. I'd enjoyed the show of his work I saw several years ago, on what might have been my first trip back to Air and Space since childhood.
Verdict: A nice show, manageable in a lunch hour. Worth a stop, especially if you're here anyway for the codex.
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