A 31-foot-tall, 13,000-pound visitor arrived in the District last week when the Smithsonian American Art Museum installed venerated pop artist Roy Lichtenstein’s monumental sculpture “Modern Head” at the corner of Ninth and F Streets NW. Elizabeth Broun, the Margaret and Terry Stent Director of SAAM, is excited about the new arrival.

“We love it because It has all the verve of art deco; all the streamlined, thrusting diagonals,” she says. “It’s got a lot of humor — the little wing that comes off the top is very jaunty. We especially love the way it relates to our building: We have this noble, neoclassical building with beautiful horizontals and verticals in marble. But the sculpture is diagonal and surging and blue. It’s a great interplay.”