E. Warren Perry, Jr.

Author Talk and Book Signing for Echoes of Elvis with Warren Perry

Please join us this Saturday, January 14 at 2:00 pm at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery for an author talk and book signing for Echoes of Elvis: The Cultural Legacy of Elvis Presley. The event will take place on the third floor Mezzanine, near the entrance to the Bravo! exhibition.

Click here for the NPG event page.

Copies of the book will be available for purchase in the bookstore.

The Portrait Gallery is located at 8th and G Streets, NW in Washington, DC.

Echoes of Elvis released by SI Scholarly Press

We are pleased to announce that Echoes of Elvis: The Cultural Legacy of Elvis Presley, edited by E. Warren Perry, Jr. has been released this week by the Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press.  Published in conjunction with Rowman and Littlefield, the book features contributions by Stephen Wright, Roy Brewer, Mark Russell, Tanya Jung, and Warren Perry, with a foreword by NPG Director Martin Sullivan. Echoes of Elvis was the culmination of the hugely popular exhibition, curated by Warren Perry, on view at the National Portrait Gallery from January to August 2010, and it contains the proceedings of an academic symposium on Elvis held at NPG in March 2010.

The book is now available for order at Amazon (click here for the link).

Warren Perry on Smithsonian Channel video: The Art of Motown

Check out the new video produced by Smithsonian Network with NPG Writer/Researcher Warren Perry discussing collection items related to Motown. Click the link below to view the video:

Smithsonian Channel: The Art of Motown

This video was inspired by another Smithsonian Channel production, and it includes National Portrait Gallery collection items that relate to the classic Motown songs featured in "Phil Collins: Going Back to Detroit."



Echoes of Elvis publication to be released December 15 - now available for pre-order on Amazon

Echoes of Elvis: The Cultural Legacy of Elvis Presley, soon to be released by Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, is now available for pre-order through Amazon. The volume, by E. Warren Perry, Jr. (editor and contributor), includes a foreword by NPG Director Martin Sullivan and contributions by Stephen K. Wright, Roy C. Brewer, Mark C. Russell, and Tanya A. Jung. This book contains the proceedings of the Edgar P. Richardson Symposium held at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in March 2010, in conjunction with the One Life: Echoes of Elvis exhibition, on view at NPG from January to August 2010.

Click here to go to Amazon and pre-order!

 

 

New Civil War Videos: Battle of Munson's Hill and Portrait of George Custer at West Point

The National Portrait Gallery has posted two new videos as part of its ongoing programming surrounding the 150th anniversary of the Civil War.

Munson's Hill: Battlefield Trickery in the Civil War, produced by Ben Bloom and Warren Perry, written and narrated by Warren Perry, videography by Ben Bloom.

 

 

Portrait of George Custer as a Student at West Point. Interview with Frank Goodyear, NPG Associate Curator of Photographs. Produced by Ben Bloom and Warren Perry, interview by Warren Perry, videography by Ben Bloom.