The National Gallery of Art preserves, collects, exhibits, and fosters understanding of works of art at the highest possible museum and scholarly standards.
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Installation of Roxy Paine's "Graft"Created about 3 weeks ago
The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection: Selected WorksUpdated about 2 months ago
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- Film Program: Herb and Dorothy
East Building Auditorium
Today, November 27 at 12:30pm - Film Program: The Lawless (The...
East Buliding Auditorium
Today, November 27 at 2:30pm - Film Program: The Sleeping Tiger
East Building Auditorium
Today, November 27 at 4:15pm - Film Program: The Crowd
East Building Auditorium
Tomorrow, November 28 at 1:00pm - Film Program: King and Country
East Building Auditorium
Tomorrow, November 28 at 3:30pm - Lecture Program: The Angels of...
East Building Auditorium
Sunday, November 29 at 2:00pm - Film Program: Hell Drivers
East Building Auditorium
Sunday, November 29 at 4:00pm - Concert: National Gallery of A...
East Building Auditorium and Atrium
Sunday, November 29 at 6:30pm - Concert Program: Joel Fan, pia...
East Building Concourse, Auditorium
Wednesday, December 2 at 12:10pm - Christmas Story
East Building Auditorium
Saturday, December 5 at 10:30am
National Gallery of Art This Sunday, hear composers discuss their works before they are performed by the National Gallery of Art Orchestra as part of the 64th American Music Festival, celebrating "The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection: Selected Works."
Third concert of the 64th American Music Festival
Location:East Building Auditorium and Atrium
Time:6:30PM Sunday, November 29th
National Gallery of Art
Frank Stella, Jasper Johns, Brice Marden, and Ellsworth Kelly—four of the American masters whose art is on view in the landmark exhibition "The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection: Selected Works"—discuss their work, the collection, and the show with Robert Meyerhoff, curator Harry Cooper, and Gallery director Earl A.... Powell III, while strolling through this innovative thematic installation before it opened earlier this fall. Speakers at the podium include Powell, Meyerhoff, and Victoria P. Sant, president, National Gallery of Art.
Learn more about the exhibition at http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/meyerhoff
View a photo album of 20 key works from the show at http://www.facebook.com/nationalgalleryo
National Gallery of Art Described by The New Yorker as "the most profound abstract painter of the last four decades," artist Brice Marden discusses the evolution of his work and the influence of his contemporaries this Sunday at the National Gallery of Art.
Location:East Building Auditorium
Time:2:00PM Sunday, November 22nd
National Gallery of Art To celebrate "The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection: Selected Works," the American Cafe's menu highlights cuisine of the east coast in honor of the regions that the collectors and many of the major artists whose work they have collected called home.
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The Garden Café provides a serene spot for lunch in the West Building next to the Ground Floor galleries. Throughout the concert season, the Garden Café offers a dessert and beverage menu on Sundays from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
National Gallery of Art This Sunday, author John Brewer traces the twisting path of Harry Hahn's "La Belle Ferronniere"--a painting of famously uncertain origin--as he illuminates the workings of the 20th-century art market and signs copies of his book on the topic.
Location:East Building Auditorium
Time:2:00PM Sunday, November 15th
The National Gallery of Art is pleased to be voted the Best Museum/Gallery in The Washington Post Express “Best of 2009” edition, released today. “It's tough to stand out in the mountain range that is D.C.'s lineup of museums,” the write-up states. “But t...
Sculptor Roxy Paine directs the installation of his newest Dendroid, "Graft," in the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden, October 26-30.
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National Gallery of Art Duke University professor Richard J. Powell discusses the “empathetic realism” of 19th-century painter Thomas Eakins, whom Powell believes challenged conventions of racial ridicule associated with images of African American performers of the time.
Minstrelsy 'Uncorked': Thomas Eakins' Empathetic Realism
Location:National Gallery of Art, East Building Auditorium
Time:4:30PM Wednesday, November 4th
National Gallery of Art Get in the mood for Halloween with dark crime dramas played out on damp streets at the National Gallery of Art's "Brit Noir" film series.
Brit Noir Film Series
Location:National Gallery of Art, East Building Auditorium
Time:3:00PM Saturday, October 31st
National Gallery of Art From William Henry Fox Talbot to Andy Warhol, “In the Darkroom: Photographic Processes Before the Digital Age” chronicles the major technological developments in the 170-year history of photography and presents the virtuosity of the medium's practitioners.
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This exhibition chronicles the major technological developments in photographic processes from the origins of the medium until the advent of digital photography. Drawn from the Gallery's permanent collection, ...
National Gallery of Art Leo Villareal's popular light sculpture "Multiverse" (2008) has entered the National Gallery of Art's permanent collection. It was installed in November 2008 along the moving walkway between the East and West Buildings, where more than 41,000 LEDs (light-emitting diodes) are programmed to display kinetic configurations of light.
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Multiverse, the largest and most complex light sculpture created by American artist Leo Villareal, may be seen and experienced by visitors as they pass through the Concourse walkway between the East and West Buildings of the National Gallery of Art. ...
National Gallery of Art In the BBC television series "Civilisation," Kenneth Clark stated, "It's arguable that Western civilisation was saved by its craftsmen." Historian Jonathan Conlin celebrates the series' 40th anniversary with a panel discussion and a lecture at the National Gallery of Art this weekend.
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The television series Civilisation is explored through Jonathan Conlin’s panel discussion, Celebrating Civilisation, on Saturday, October 17, at 1:00 p.m. and lecture, Back to Civilisation: Kenneth Clark's Television Landmark at 40, at 2:00 p.m. ...
National Gallery of Art He was a postal worker. She was a librarian. Together they amassed an extraordinary and important collection of contemporary art, much of which was acquired by the National Gallery of Art and also distributed to museums throughout the United States. The film "Herb & Dorothy" opens the 2009-2010 season of "Independent L...ens" tonight on PBS. Visit the link below to learn more and to check your local listings.
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A couple of modest means manages to build one of the most important contemporary art collections in history.
See MoreNational Gallery of Art Gain insight into the motifs, compositions, and autobiographical references in the work of Jasper Johns at Sunday's free opening weekend lecture for "Editions with Additions: Working Proofs by Jasper Johns."
Location:National Gallery of Art, East Building Auditorium
Time:2:00PM Sunday, October 11th
