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Messages, meanings, movements—how does art history help us understand our world? Join curators, historians, artists, musicians and filmmakers as they explore art and its histories in a search for our shared humanity. Download the programs, then visit us on the National Mall or at www.nga.gov, where you can explore many of the works of art mentioned.
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Kamala Sankaram and Mark Rothko’s "Untitled" from 2022-02-22T03:11:17.483203
When her sister was dying, composer Kamala Sankaram was drawn to Mark Rothko’s painting: it both captured her grief and calmed her. That experience influenced Sankaram’s approach to creating a musi...
ListenElson Lecture 2021: Mark Bradford from 2022-02-22T03:11:17.368198
Working at the intersection of event and art, Mark Bradford explores social and political structures through large-scale abstract paintings created out of layered paper. Bradford’s reimagining of m...
ListenAmerican University’s Feminist Art History Conference 2021: Feminist Issues in Art Museums from 2022-01-25T08:00
The final session of American University’s Feminist Art History Conference, cohosted by the National Gallery, brings together distinguished curators to discuss contemporary issues in museum practic...
ListenJohn Wilmerding Symposium on American Art and Community Celebration 2021: Session III: The Nation’s Capital in the Time of Alma Thomas from 2022-01-25T08:00
Presentations on Thomas’s aesthetic and social environment by Melanee Harvey, Margie Jervis, Marya McQuirter, and Thaïsa Way, followed with discussion moderated by Charles Brock. Melanee Harvey, as...
ListenJohn Wilmerding Symposium on American Art and Community Celebration 2021: Session II: Alma Thomas’s Studio Practice and DC Cultural Institutions from 2022-01-25T08:00
Presentations on Thomas’s studio art training and involvement with galleries, museums, and universities by Renee Maurer, Nell Irvin Painter, and Rebecca VanDiver, followed with discussion moderated...
ListenJohn Wilmerding Symposium on American Art and Community Celebration 2021: Session I: An Evening Celebration of Alma Thomas from 2022-01-25T08:00
Presentations on Thomas’s studio art training and involvement with galleries, museums, and universities by Renee Maurer, Nell Irvin Painter, and Rebecca VanDiver, followed with discussion moderated...
ListenJohn Wilmerding Symposium on American Art and Community Celebration 2021: Alma W. Thomas: Everything is Beautiful: The Infiniteness of Alma Thomas from 2022-01-25T08:00
Elizabeth Alexander, poet, educator, memoirist, scholar, cultural advocate, and president of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and Thelma Golden, director and chief curator of The Studio Museum in H...
ListenRajiv Vaidya Memorial Lecture 2021: Josephine Baker as a “Rememory” of Global Black Cinema? from 2021-12-05T08:00
In her 2021 Rajiv Vaidya Memorial Lecture, Terri Simone Francis reflects on Josephine Baker’s influence within the visual arts and theorizes Baker as both an international cultural figure and an Af...
ListenWyeth Lecture in American Art 2021: Prioritizing Indigenous Communities and Voices: Curating in This Time: Patricia Marroquin Norby, The Metropolitan Museum of Art from 2021-12-03T08:00
In this lecture, released on December 3, 2021, Patricia Marroquin Norby (Purépecha), associate curator of Native American art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (the Met), discusses her recent resea...
ListenBonus Episode: Episode 11: Celeste Headlee and James Van Der Zee’s “Couple, Harlem” from 2021-11-23T12:45
In this photograph, journalist and musician Celeste Headlee hears “Lenox Avenue,” a suite her grandfather William Grant Still named after Harlem’s main street. This portrait captures the pride...
Sydney J. Freedberg Lecture on Italian Art 2021: “More perfect and excellent than men” from 2021-11-05T08:00
In this lecture, released on November 5, 2021, Babette Bohn of Texas Christian University discusses women artists in early modern Italy. Early modern Bologna was exceptional for its many talented w...
ListenThe National Gallery's New YouTube Channel from 2021-09-21T08:00
Messages, meanings, movements—how does art history help us understand our world? Join curators, historians, artists, musicians, and filmmakers as they explore art and its histories in a search f...
ListenChristian McBride and Roy DeCarava’s “David” from 2021-06-06T08:00
In an improvised musical conversation, jazz bassist Christian McBride introduces himself to David. Connecting over McBride’s walking bass line, they meet David’s friends, splash by the fire hydr...
ListenThe 70th A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: Contact: Art and the Pull of Print, Part 6: Alienation from 2021-05-30T08:00
Jennifer L. Roberts, Elizabeth Cary Agassiz Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University. In this six-part lecture series titled Contact: Art and the Pull of Print, Roberts will focus on printma...
ListenThe 70th A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: Contact: Art and the Pull of Print, Part 5: Interference from 2021-05-23T08:00
Jennifer L. Roberts, Elizabeth Cary Agassiz Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University. In this six-part lecture series titled Contact: Art and the Pull of Print, Roberts focuses on printmakin...
ListenDaniel Bernard Roumain and "American Gothic" from 2021-05-19T08:00
Composer Daniel Bernard Roumain works with performance poet Lady Caress to respond to this iconic photograph with a combination of music and poetry. In the ebb and flow of his composition, DBR hope...
ListenThe 70th A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: Contact: Art and the Pull of Print, Part 4: Strain from 2021-05-16T08:00
Jennifer L. Roberts, Elizabeth Cary Agassiz Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University. In this six-part lecture series titled Contact: Art and the Pull of Print, Roberts focuses on printmakin...
ListenNathalie Joachim and Carrie Mae Weems’s "May Flowers" from 2021-05-16T08:00
Composer Nathalie Joachim sees her childhood memories in May Flowers. The photograph also evokes the uniquely spiritual experience of recording a church choir in her family’s Haitian village. Jo...
ListenBora Yoon and "Ommah" from 2021-05-12T08:00
Composer and multi-instrumentalist Bora Yoon considers whether we carry the sounds and memories of our people within us. In her response to Nam June Paik’s video sculpture, she brings together both...
ListenThe 70th A. W. Mellon Lectures: Contact: Art and the Pull of Print, Part 3: Separation from 2021-05-09T08:00
Jennifer L. Roberts, Elizabeth Cary Agassiz Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University. In this six-part lecture series titled Contact: Art and the Pull of Print, Roberts focuses on printmakin...
ListenThe 70th A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: Contact: Art and the Pull of Print, Part 2: Reversal from 2021-05-02T08:00
Jennifer L. Roberts, Elizabeth Cary Agassiz Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University. In this six-part lecture series titled Contact: Art and the Pull of Print, Roberts focuses on printmakin...
ListenRafiq Bhatia and James Turrell’s "New Light" from 2021-05-02T08:00
Musician Rafiq Bhatia feels compelled to capture his improvisations—fleeting moments of sound—in recordings. Like sound, light is transient. But James Turrell’s works, which inspired Bhatia’s co...
ListenLara Downes and "Tomorrow I May Be Far Away" from 2021-04-28T08:00
For classical pianist and activist Lara Downes, Romare Bearden’s collage is a puzzle full of questions and unfinished business. In response, she brings together different musical sources, overlayin...
ListenThe 70th A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: Contact: Art and the Pull of Print, Part 1: Pressure from 2021-04-25T08:00
Jennifer L. Roberts, Elizabeth Cary Agassiz Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University. In this six-part lecture series Contact: Art and the Pull of Print, Roberts focuses on printmaking as an...
ListenJasiri X and Kerry James Marshall’s "Untitled (Man)" from 2021-04-21T08:00
Hip-hop artist Jasiri X looks at Kerry James Marshall’s woodcut almost like he’s looking into a mirror. It captures the experience of a Black man: resilient but restrained from being his authentic ...
ListenVijay Iyer and I.M. Pei’s "National Gallery of Art, East Building" from 2021-04-18T08:00
Composer-pianist Vijay Iyer describes the East Building as a work of art that does what music does: invites you in—to inhabit, explore, and be among others. He responds with pieces that balance pat...
ListenEmily Wells and David Wojnarowicz’s "Untitled (Falling Buffalos)" from 2021-04-11T08:00
Composer/producer Emily Wells sees us as the buffalo: frozen before downfall, but still alive—which is why she includes so much breath in her song. Wells, whose work deals with the climate crisis, ...
Listen"Sound Thoughts on Art" trailer from 2021-03-10T08:00
Hosted by musician and journalist Celeste Headlee, each episode focuses on a work of art in the National Gallery’s collection. Learn about the work and its context and hear a musician respond to th...
ListenTime and Temporality in Seventeenth-Century Genre Painting from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Alexandra Libby, assistant curator, department of northern baroque paintings, National Gallery of Art Part of the enduring appeal of Dutch paintings is their extraordinary naturalism, their ability...
ListenOld Topographics: Photography and Urbanization in Nineteenth-Century Paris : The Quarry in the City: Charles Marville¹s Landscapes of the Carrières d¹Amérique, Part 5 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
April 2014 - Nancy Locke, associate professor of art history, The Pennsylvania State University Organized in conjunction with Charles Marville: Photographer of Paris, this symposium held on Decembe...
ListenCalling the Earth to Witness: Paul Gauguin in the Marquesas from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
May 2011 - June Hargrove, professor of 19th-century European painting and sculpture, University of Maryland at College Park. Professor June Hargrove discusses artist Paul Gauguin's struggle in the ...
ListenMore than Mimicry: The Parrot in Dutch Genre Painting from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Kristen H. Gonzalez, curatorial assistant, department of northern baroque paintings, National Gallery of Art. The newly independent Dutch Republic established a vast and profitable trade network in...
ListenThe Sixty-Third A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: Past Belief: Visions of Early Christianity in Renaissance and Reformation Europe, Part 2: Bearers of Memory and Makers of History: The Many Paths to Christian Antiquity from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
April 2014 - Anthony Grafton, Princeton University. In this six-part lecture series entitled Past Belief: Visions of Early Christianity in Renaissance and Reformation Europe, Anthony Grafton will f...
ListenIntroduction to the Exhibition? Gauguin: Maker of Myth from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
May 2011 - Mary Morton, curator and head of the department of French paintings, National Gallery of Art, and Belinda Thomson, guest curator. Exhibition curators Mary Morton and Belinda Thomson mark...
ListenFashion à la Figaro: Spanish Style on the French Stage from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell, fashion historian. The 2012 discovery of a drawing by Jean Honoré Fragonard (1732–1806) depicting his so-called fantasy figures is the inspiration for a revelatory exhib...
ListenThe Sixty-Third A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: Past Belief: Visions of Early Christianity in Renaissance and Reformation Europe, Part 1: How Jesus Celebrated Passover: The Jewish Origins of Christianity from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
April 2014 - Anthony Grafton, Princeton University. In this six-part lecture series entitled Past Belief: Visions of Early Christianity in Renaissance and Reformation Europe, Anthony Grafton focuse...
ListenLast Looks, Last Books: The Binocular Poetry of Death, Part 4: Death by Subtraction: Robert Lowell, "Day by Day" from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
May 2011 - Helen Vendler, A. Kingsley Porter University Professor, Harvard University. This six-part lecture series considers the final works of five modern American poets, as they "take the last l...
ListenAnne Truitt in Washington: A Conversation with James Meyer and Alexandra Truitt from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
James Meyer, curator of art, 1945–1974, National Gallery of Art, and Alexandra Truitt, independent photo editor and picture researcher, and manager, Estate of Anne Truitt The studio life of Anne Tr...
ListenElson Lecture 2014: Allan McCollum from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
April 2014 - Allan McCollum, artist. Born in Los Angeles in 1944, Allan McCollum briefly considered a career in theater before attending trade school to study restaurant management and industrial k...
ListenFor the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
May 2011 - Gerald Peary, director; Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader; David Sterritt, Christian Science Monitor. With newspapers and periodicals downsizing and devoting less space than ever to fil...
ListenProjections of Memory: Romanticism, Modernism, and the Aesthetics of Film from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Richard I. Suchenski, associate professor of film and electronic arts and director of the Center for Moving Image Arts, Bard College; and editor, Hou Hsiao-hsien. In this lecture recorded on Septem...
ListenOld Topographics: Photography and Urbanization in Nineteenth-Century Paris : Marville's Street Lamps, Part 4 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
April 2014 - Hollis Clayson, Samuel H. Kress Professor 2013–2014, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art. Organized in conjunction with Charles Marville: Photographer...
ListenElson Lecture 2011: Terry Winters: Notes on Painting from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
May 2011 - Terry Winters, artist. A prodigious painter, draftsman, and printmaker, Terry Winters has pushed the boundaries of modern art while he has maintained a keen sense of its history and craf...
ListenEdgar Degas (1834–1917): A Centenary Tribute, Part 8—Degas’s Sculpture: An Inside Look from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Shelley Sturman, senior conservator and head of object conservation, National Gallery of Art, and Daphne Barbour, senior conservator of objects, National Gallery of Art. Dedicated to Edgar Degas (1...
ListenThe Collecting of African American Art XI: The Wedge Collection from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
March 2014 - Maria Kanellopoulos, collection-manager and exhibition coordinator, Wedge Curatorial Projects; Kenneth Montague, collector, curator, and director, Wedge Curatorial Projects; and Trevor...
ListenLast Looks, Last Books: The Binocular Poetry of Death, Part 3: The Contest of Melodrama and Restraint: Sylvia Plath, "Ariel" from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
May 2011 - Helen Vendler, A. Kingsley Porter University Professor, Harvard University. This six-part lecture series considers the final works of five modern American poets, as they "take the last l...
ListenEdgar Degas (1834–1917): A Centenary Tribute, Part 7—Authorship and Evidence from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Patricia Failing, professor emerita of art history, University of Washington, Seattle. Dedicated to Edgar Degas (1834–1917) in the centennial year of his death, Volume 3 of the conservation divisio...
ListenIntroduction to the Exhibition: Garry Winogrand from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
March 2014 - Leo Rubinfien, photographer and guest exhibition curator of Garry Winogrand. In honor of the National Gallery of Art's exhibition Garry Winogrand, Leo Rubinfien, a friend and protégé o...
ListenSights and Sounds of 18th-Century Venice Symposium from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
May 2011 - Venice during the time of Canaletto was examined in this public symposium held in conjunction with the Venice: Canaletto and His Rivals exhibition, on view at the National Gallery of Art...
ListenCharles Le Brun—Louis XIV’s Most Powerful Artist from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Wolf Burchard, furniture research curator, National Trust, England. Charles Le Brun, the creator of the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles, was Louis XIV’s most prolific and powerful artist. In this lec...
ListenOld Topographics: Photography and Urbanization in Nineteenth-Century Paris: Mapping, Picturing and Constructing the 19th-Century Parisian Grid, Part 3 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
March 2014 - Stéphane Kirkland, author, Paris Reborn: Napoléon III, Haussmann, and the Quest to Build a Modern City Organized in conjunction with Charles Marville: Photographer of Paris, this sympo...
ListenLast Looks, Last Books: The Binocular Poetry of Death, Part 2: Facing the Worst: Wallace Stevens, "The Rock" from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
May 2011 - Helen Vendler, A. Kingsley Porter University Professor, Harvard University. This six-part lecture series considers the final works of five modern American poets, as they "take the last l...
ListenThe Sydney J. Freedberg Lecture on Italian Art: Sugar and Spice and All Things Nice? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Beverly Louise Brown, Fellow, The Warburg Institute In this lecture, presented on November 19, 2017, Beverly Louise Brown discusses Titian’s portrait of Clarice Strozzi. A popular nineteenth-centur...
ListenThe Inside Story: Monuments Men and the National Gallery of Art from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
March 2014 - Maygene Daniels, chief of Gallery Archives, and Gregory Most, chief of library image collections, National Gallery of Art; and Lynn H. Nicholas, author of The Rape of Europa: The Fate ...
ListenLast Looks, Last Books: The Binocular Poetry of Death, Part 1: Introduction: Sustaining a Double View from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
May 2011 - Helen Vendler, A. Kingsley Porter University Professor, Harvard University. This six-part lecture series considers the final works of five modern American poets, as they "take the last l...
ListenThe Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professors at the National Gallery of Art: Jacqueline Lichtenstein from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Jacqueline Lichtenstein (Université Paris-Sorbonne, emeritus, and former Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professor at the National Gallery of Art) discusses Edgar Degas, Little Dancer Aged Fourteen (1878–...
ListenCapital Culture: J. Carter Brown, the National Gallery of Art from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
March 2014 - Neil Harris, Preston and Sterling Morton Professor Emeritus of History and of Art History, University of Chicago In his book Capital Culture: J. Carter Brown, the National Gallery of A...
ListenNeorealismo 1941-1954: Days of Glory from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
May 2011 - Millicent Marcus, professor of Italian, Yale University. The film series Neorealismo 1941?1954: Days of Glory, presented in early 2011, focused on iconic works from the neorealism moveme...
ListenThe Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professors at the National Gallery of Art: Anna Ottani Cavina from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Anna Ottani Cavina (Università di Bologna, emerita; Fondazione Federico Zeri, presidente onorario; and former Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professor at the National Gallery of Art) focuses on John Robe...
ListenOld Topographics: Photography and Urbanization in Nineteenth-Century Paris : Urban Graphics: Mapping, Picturing and Constructing the Nineteenth-Century Parisian Grid, Part 2 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
March 2014 - Min Kyung Lee, assistant professor, Modern Architecture and Urban Planning College of the Holy Cross. Organized in conjunction with Charles Marville: Photographer of Paris, this sympos...
ListenThe Rodin Touch from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
May 2011 - David J. Getsy, Goldabelle McComb Finn Distinguished Professor of Art History, School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Rodin's touch grew to be infamous, infecting each of the sculptures...
ListenElson Lecture Series 2020: Mary Kelly from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Mary Kelly, artist and Judge Widney Professor in the Roski School of Art and Design, University of Southern California, in conversation with Shelley Langdale, curator and head of modern prints and ...
ListenThe Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professors at the National Gallery of Art: Carl Brandon Strehlke from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Carl Brandon Strehlke (Philadelphia Museum of Art, adjunct curator, John G. Johnson Collection, and former Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professor at the National Gallery of Art) discusses Domenico Vene...
ListenLooking Forward, Looking Back from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
March 2014 - Michael Snow, artist. Internationally renowned multidisciplinary artist Michael Snow (b. 1928, Canada) visited the National Gallery of Art on February 8 and 9, 2014, to introduce two p...
ListenGabriel Metsu, 1629-1667 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
May 2011 - Arthur K. Wheelock Jr., curator, northern baroque paintings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, and Pieter Roelofs, curator of 17th-century paintings, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. One of th...
ListenRajiv Vaidya Memorial Lecture 2020: Julie Dash and the L.A. Rebellion: Architects of the Impossible from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
American film director, writer, and producer Julie Dash is a member of the L.A. Rebellion, a generation of African and African American artists who studied at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and T...
ListenThe Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professors at the National Gallery of Art: Kathleen A. Foster from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Kathleen A. Foster (Philadelphia Museum of Art and former Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professor at the National Gallery of Art) focuses on the Winslow Homer watercolor Boys Wading (1873). Foster descr...
ListenImage of the Black in Western Art, Part III from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
March 2014 - Panel discussion includes David Bindman, emeritus professor of the history of art, University College London; Ruth Fine, curator (1972–2012), National Gallery of Art; Henry Louis Gates...
ListenThe Collecting of African American Art III: A Peculiar Destiny: The Mission of the Paul R. Jones Collection from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
May 2011 - Paul R. Jones, collector, and Amalia K. Amaki, professor of art history, University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa. For the third program in the National Gallery of Art lecture series The Coll...
ListenThe Sydney J. Freedberg Lecture on Italian Art 2020: Telling the Past Differently: Italian Renaissance Art in the Hands of the Beholder from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In this lecture, released on October 30, 2020, Megan Holmes of the University of Michigan discusses the handled surfaces of panel paintings. Collections of Italian Renaissance panel paintings were ...
ListenCalder: The Conquest of Time: A Conversation with Jed Perl and Alexander S. C. Rower from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Jed Perl, author of Calder: The Conquest of Time, and contributor, The New York Review of Books; and Alexander S. C. Rower, Calder's grandson and president, Calder Foundation. On November 5, 2017 a...
ListenOld Topographics: Photography and Urbanization in Nineteenth-Century Paris : Transit and Transition in Marville's Paris, Part 1 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
February 2014 - Masha Belenky, associate professor of French and acting chair, department of Romance, German, and Slavic Languages and Literatures, The George Washington University. Organized in co...
ListenThe Collecting of African American Art II: Reflections on Collecting from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
April 2011 - Andrea Barnwell Brownlee, director of Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, and Walter O. Evans, collector. In this conversation recorded on February 17, 2008, as part of the National Ga...
Listen2020 Summer Lecture Series: Staycation: Modern Masters of the French Riviera from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
David Gariff, senior lecturer, National Gallery of Art The 2020 summer series of lectures presented by the education division explores the theme of Staycation. Many of us may be spending this summe...
ListenCollector of Lives: Giorgio Vasari and the Invention of Art from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Noah Charney, author; adjunct professor of art history, American University of Rome and University of Ljubljana; and founder, Association for Research into Crimes against Art (ARCA) In this lecture...
ListenA Bearden Celebration from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
February 2014 - Ruth Fine, curator of special projects in modern art, National Gallery of Art. Panel discussion includes Spiral artists Emma Amos, Reginald Gammon, and Richard Mayhew; Camille Billo...
ListenConversations with Artists: Wayne Thiebaud from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
April 2011 - Wayne Thiebaud, artist, in conversation with Kathan Brown, president, Crown Point Press, and Ruth Fine, curator of modern prints and drawings, National Gallery of Art. In this podcast ...
Listen2020 Summer Lecture Series: Staycation: Milan: A Tale of Two Cities from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
David Gariff, senior lecturer, National Gallery of Art. The 2020 summer series of lectures presented by the education division explores the theme of Staycation. Many of us may be spending this summ...
ListenBunny Mellon: The Pursuit of Perfection from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Meryl Gordon, director of magazine writing, Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, New York University, and author of The Phantom of Fifth Avenue: The Mysterious Life and Scandalous Death of Heires...
ListenClimbing and Clarifying: The Genius of Jacob Lawrence from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
February 2014 - Richard J. Powell, assistant professor, department of art and art history, Duke University In advance of the publication of his newest book, Jacob Lawrence, Richard J. Powell shares...
ListenThe Sydney J. Freedberg Lecture on Italian Art 2003: Ovid's "Metamorphoses" in the Art of Renaissance and Baroque Masters from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
April 2011 - Paul Barolsky, commonwealth professor, University of Virginia. Paul Barolsky discusses the self-conscious artfulness of Ovid's Metamorphoses and its relation to the visual wit of major...
ListenBlurred Identities: The Art and Audience of Lynching Photography from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Terence Washington, departments of academic programs and modern art, National Gallery of Art Between the late 19th and the mid-20th centuries, white Americans conducted thousands of lynchings, usin...
ListenEdgar Degas (1834–1917): A Centenary Tribute, Part 6—Issues of Finish and Process from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Ann Hoenigswald, senior conservator of paintings, National Gallery of Art. Dedicated to Edgar Degas (1834–1917) in the centennial year of his death, Volume 3 of the conservation division's biennial...
ListenThe Collecting of African American Art X: Rodney Merritt Miller: Reflections on Collecting from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
February 2014 - Ruth Fine, curator (1972–2012), National Gallery of Art, and Rodney M. Miller, collector. In this conversation recorded on February 9, 2014, as part of The Collecting of African Ame...
ListenLewis Baltz: Prototypes/Ronde de Nuit from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
April 2011 - Sarah Greenough, senior curator and head, department of photographs, National Gallery of Art, and Matthew S. Witkovsky, exhibition guest curator. Featured are some 50 Prototypes?on vie...
ListenBlack Opera as Architecture: A Conversation with Kimberly Drew, Alicia Hall Moran, and Imani Uzuri from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Kimberly Drew, writer, curator, and activist; Alicia Hall Moran, artist, composer, and mezzo-soprano; and Imani Uzuri, composer, librettist, and 2019-2020 Hutchins Fellow, W. E. B. Du Bois Research...
ListenMichelangelo Pistoletto from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Michelangelo Pistoletto, artist, in conversation with James Meyer, curator of art, 1945–1974, National Gallery of Art. Commonly referred to as the Mirror Paintings and composed of photo-based image...
ListenWitnessing Byzantium: The Greek Perspective from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
February 2014 - Sharon E. J. Gerstel, professor of Byzantine art history and archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles. The Greek city of Thessaloniki was the Byzantine Empire's second cit...
ListenElson Lecture 1998: I. M. Pei in conversation with Earl A. Powell III from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
April 2011 - I. M. Pei, architect, in conversation with Earl A. Powell III, director, National Gallery of Art Legendary architect I. M. Pei appears in conversation with Gallery director Earl A. Pow...
ListenLocal to Global: Teaching Critical Thinking through Art—the Gallery’s first Massive Open Online Course from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Julie Carmean, manager of national teacher programs, National Gallery of Art, and Sara Lesk, manager of Art Around the Corner, National Gallery of Art. Using Harvard Project Zero’s Artful Thinking ...
ListenEdgar Degas (1834–1917): A Centenary Tribute, Part 5—Pastels in the Burrell Collection, Glasgow from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Harriet Stratis, former research conservator, Art Institute of Chicago Dedicated to Edgar Degas (1834–1917) in the centennial year of his death, Volume 3 of the conservation division's biennial jou...
ListenSpeaking across Disciplines: Introducing "Facture," a New Gallery Journal from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
January 2014 - Daphne Barbour, senior object conservator; Melanie Gifford, research conservator; Lisha Glinsman, conservation scientist; Alison Luchs, curator of early European sculpture; and Kimbe...
ListenElson Lecture 1996: Elizabeth Murray from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
April 2011 - Elizabeth Murray, artist, in conversation with Marla Prather, curator and head of the department of 20th century art, National Gallery of Art. Elizabeth Murray (1940?2007) is one of th...
ListenReflections on the Collection: The Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professors at the National Gallery of Art: Thomas Kren on Giovanni d’Alemagna’s Saint Apollonia Destroys a Pagan Idol (c. 1442/1445) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Thomas Kren (former associate director for collections, J. Paul Getty Museum and 2016 Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professor at the National Gallery of Art) examines Saint Apollonia Destroys a Pagan Id...
ListenAmy Sherald from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Amy Sherald, artist, in conversation with Erin Christovale, assistant curator at the Hammer Museum Amy Sherald (b. Columbus, Georgia, 1973) received her BFA from Clark Atlanta University in 1997 an...
ListenConservation of the Shaw Memorial: The Long Journey from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
January 2014 - Shelley Sturman, senior conservator and head of the department of object conservation, National Gallery of Art. On the 100th anniversary of the Robert Gould Shaw Memorial dedication ...
ListenElson Lecture 1995: Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
March 2011 - Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, artists. Working in collaboration since 1976, husband and wife artists Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen (1942?2009) redefined the nature o...
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Samuel H. Kress, American businessman and philanthropist. The National Gallery of Art was created on March 17, 1937, by a joint resolution of Congress accepting the gift of financier and art collec...
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Walter Isaacson, president and chief executive officer, The Aspen Institute, and author of The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution (2014), Steve J...
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January 2014 - Ioli Kalavrezou, , Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Byzantine Art, Harvard University. Organized to foster connections between the exhibition Heaven and Earth: Art of Byzantium from Greek...
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March 2011 - Roy Lichtenstein, artist, in conversation with Robert Rosenblum, professor of art history, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and the Stephen and Nan Swid Curator of 20th-Cen...
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Charles Evans Hughes, 11th chief justice of the United States (1930–1941) and chairman of the National Gallery of Art (1937–1941). The National Gallery of Art was created on March 17, 1937, by a jo...
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Cécile Whiting, University of California, Irvine. In this lecture, presented on October 25, 2017, speaker Cécile Whiting of the University of California, Irvine, analyzes the ways in which artists ...
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January 2014 - Demetra Papanikola-Bakirtzi, , director, The Leventis Municipal Museum of Nicosia. Organized to foster connections between the exhibition Heaven and Earth: Art of Byzantium from Gree...
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March 2011 - Frank Stella, artist. In this podcast recorded on October 27, 1993, at the National Gallery of Art, leading contemporary artist Frank Stella delivers the first annual Elson Lecture. Re...
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Paul Mellon, American philanthropist, art collector, and founding benefactor and trustee of the National Gallery of Art. The National Gallery of Art was created on March 17, 1937, by a joint resolu...
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Kimberly Schenck, senior conservator and head of paper conservation, National Gallery of Art. Dedicated to Edgar Degas (1834–1917) in the centennial year of his death, Volume 3 of the conservation ...
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January 2014 - Eugenia Gerousi, director, Byzantine and Post-Byzantine antiquities, The Hellenic Ministry of Culture. Organized to foster connections between the exhibition Heaven and Earth: Art of...
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March 2011 - Charles Beddington, guest curator. Canaletto expert Charles Beddington marks the opening day of the exhibition Venice: Canaletto and His Rivals in this lecture recorded February 20, 20...
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Cecilia Frosinini (Opificio delle Pietre Dure e Laboratori di Restauro, Florence, and former Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professor at the National Gallery of Art), explores how Giotto conveys a new pa...
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Anne Pingeot, curator emerita, Musée d'Orsay. Dedicated to Edgar Degas (1834–1917) in the centennial year of his death, Volume 3 of the conservation division's biennial journal Facture: Conservatio...
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January 2014 - Robert Ousterhout, professor of art history and director of the center for ancient studies, University of Pennsylvania. Organized to foster connections between the exhibition Heaven ...
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March 2011 - Jonathan J. G. Alexander, Sherman Fairchild Professor of Fine Arts, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Recorded on November 13, 2005, as part of the Sydney J. Freedberg Lectu...
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Heidi Applegate, guest lecturer. In this lecture, presented at the National Gallery of Art on December 9, 2019, guest lecturer Heidi Applegate explored the depiction of cats across a wide range of ...
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Maygene Daniels, chief of Gallery Archives, National Gallery of Art. Johannes Vermeer, the unprecedented exhibition that featured 21 of the existing 35 works known to have been painted by the Dutch...
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December 2013 - Kathan Brown, founding director, Crown Point Press. San Francisco's Crown Point Press is one of the most influential printmaking studios of the last half century. The exhibition Yes...
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March 2011 - Mary Miller, Yale University. This five-part lecture series offers an overview of pre-Columbian art history, with detailed discussion of time, beauty, and truth in the visual cultures ...
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David Gariff, senior lecturer, National Gallery of Art. There are many works in the National Gallery of Art which have been inspired by the glorious story of Easter. Paintings and sculptures from t...
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Arthur K. Wheelock Jr., curator of northern baroque paintings, National Gallery of Art. Johannes Vermeer, the unprecedented exhibition that featured 21 of the existing 35 works known to have been p...
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December 2013 - Revered director and screenwriter Agnieszka Holland discusses her latest narrative feature In Darkness (2011) and the HBO Europe miniseries Burning Bush (2013). Both works are based...
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March 2011 - Mary Morton, curator of French paintings, National Gallery of Art, and Belinda Thomson, exhibition guest curator. On the occasion of the exhibition Gauguin: Maker of Myth, Morton and T...
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Kellie Jones, Columbia University. In this lecture, presented on November 6, 2019, Kellie Jones, of Columbia University, looks at international conceptual art networks and the making of global comm...
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Michelle Facini, conservator of paper, National Gallery of Art, and Kathryn A. Dooley, research scientist, scientific research department, National Gallery of Art Dedicated to Edgar Degas (1834–191...
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December 2013 - Arthur J. Wheelock Jr., curator of northern baroque paintings, National Gallery of Art In 1975 Arthur K. Wheelock Jr. was appointed curator of northern baroque paintings at the Nati...
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February 2011 - Mary Miller, Yale University. This five-part lecture series offers an overview of pre-Columbian art history, with detailed discussion of time, beauty, and truth in the visual cultur...
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Mary Morton, curator and head of French paintings, National Gallery of Art Auguste Renoir rebelled against the standards of the official art world, like other impressionists, pushing the limits of ...
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Adriaan Waiboer, head of collections and research, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, and Arthur K. Wheelock Jr., curator of northern baroque paintings, National Gallery of Art. The landmark exhi...
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December 2013 - Anna Winestein, historian and executive director of the Ballets Russes Cultural Partnership. In conjunction with the exhibition Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes, 1909–1929: When Art...
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February 2011 - Anna Ottani Cavina, professor of art history, Universit� di Bologna. Professor Anna Ottani Cavina examines the aesthetic of the Italian landscape as depicted by foreign painters dur...
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Edgar Degas was fascinated by music, opera, and ballet throughout his long career. He was a regular attendee at the old Paris Opéra house on the Rue Le Peletier through his early career, and then a...
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Richard Kendall, independent art historian and curator Dedicated to Edgar Degas (1834–1917) in the centennial year of his death, Volume 3 of the conservation division's biennial journal Facture: Co...
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Decmber 2013 - Andy Goldsworthy, artist. British artist Andy Goldsworthy was commissioned to create a site-specific sculpture for the National Gallery of Art in 2004. Installed in the East Building...
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February 2011 - Mary Miller, Yale University. This five-part lecture series offers an overview of pre-Columbian art history, with detailed discussion of time, beauty, and truth in the visual cultur...
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Eric Denker, senior lecturer, National Gallery of Art Raphael is recognized by many as the foremost figure of the classical tradition in Western painting. Unparalleled in the complexity of his styl...
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Yuriko Jackall, assistant curator, department of French paintings, National Gallery of Art. Combining art, fashion, science, and conservation, the exhibition Fragonard: The Fantasy Figures brings t...
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December 2013 - Mary L. Levkoff, curator and head, department of sculpture and decorative arts, National Gallery of Art. Media magnate William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951) was one of the most powerf...
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February 2011 - Daphne Barbour, senior conservator, department of object conservation, National Gallery of Art; Suzanne G. Lindsay, adjunct associate professor in the history of art, University of ...
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Jonathan Bober, Andrew W. Mellon Senior Curator of Prints and Drawings, National Gallery of Art. In celebration of the 500th anniversary of Raphael’s death, the Gallery presents 25 prints and drawi...
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Julia Bryan-Wilson, associate professor of modern and contemporary art, University of California, Berkeley; Lynne Cooke, senior curator, special projects in modern art, National Gallery of Art On O...
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December 2013 - Paul D. Miller (a.k.a. DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid), composer, multimedia artist, writer, and DJ; accompanied by cellist Danielle Cho, violinist Jennifer Kim and vocalist Rochelle...
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February 2011 - Mark Leithauser, senior curator and head of design and installation, and Eric Denker, lecturer, National Gallery of Art. On the occasion of the exhibition Venice: Canaletto and His ...
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The National Gallery of Art will be the first American art museum to invite teams of data scientists and art historians to analyze, contextualize, and visualize its permanent collection data. The G...
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Matthias Mansen, artist, and John A. Tyson, assistant professor of art, University of Massachusetts Boston. Born in 1958 in Ravensburg, Germany, Matthias Mansen studied painting with Georg Baselitz...
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November 2013 - Julie Mehretu, artist, in conversation with Judith Brodie, curator and head, department of modern prints and drawings, National Gallery of Art. Julie Mehretu is best known for large...
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February 2011 - Mary Miller, Yale University. This five-part lecture series offers an overview of pre-Columbian art history, with detailed discussion of time, beauty, and truth in the visual cultur...
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Kimberly A. Jones, curator of 19th-century French paintings, National Gallery of Art Edgar Degas (1834–1917) is celebrated as the painter of dancers, a subject that dominated his art for nearly fou...
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Valerie Hellstein, independent scholar, and Elizabeth Prelinger, Keyser Family Professor of Art History and Modern Art, Georgetown University, in conversation with Mollie Berger, curatorial assista...
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November 2013 - Carmen C. Bambach, curator of drawings and prints, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. A fortuitous rediscovery of documents in the Florentine state archive that have been greatly misju...
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February 2011 - Andy Goldsworthy, artist. Held in conjunction with the exhibitions The Andy Goldsworthy Project and Andy Goldsworthy: Roof, Andy Goldsworthy spoke about his career and current proje...
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Mary Morton, curator and head of French paintings, National Gallery of Art, and Ann Lofquist, artist At the National Gallery of Art on February 23, 2020, Mary Morton is joined in conversation with ...
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Lilian Thomas Burwell, Floyd Coleman, David C. Driskell, Sam Gilliam, Keith A. Morrison, Martin Puryear, Sylvia Snowden, and Lou Stovall; Ruth Fine, moderator and senior curator of special projects...
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November 2013 - Panelists include Kerry James Marshall, artist; James Meyer, associate curator of modern art, National Gallery of Art; Mary Pattillo, Harold Washington Professor of Sociology and Af...
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February 2011 - Mary Miller, Yale University. This five-part lecture series offers an overview of pre-Columbian art history, with detailed discussion of time, beauty, and truth in the visual cultur...
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Mia Fineman, curator, department of photographs, Metropolitan Museum of Art 2019 marks 50 years since Apollo 11 landed on the moon on July 20, 1969, capturing the attention of viewers worldwide who...
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Bart Devolder, painting conservator and onsite coordinator, Ghent Altarpiece restoration team, Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (KIK-IRPA). The Ghent Altarpiece (1432) by Jan and Hubert van Ey...
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November 2013 - Sarah Kennel, associate curator, department of photographs, National Gallery of Art. The National Gallery of Art's exhibition Charles Marville: Photographer of Paris, on view from S...
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February 2011 - Colin B. Bailey, associate director, and Peter Jay Sharp, chief curator, The Frick Collection. Jean-Honor? Fragonard's Progress of Love is considered by many to be one of the great ...
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David Gariff, senior lecturer, National Gallery of Art Offered in conjunction with the exhibition True to Nature: Open-Air Painting in Europe, 1780–1870 on view at the National Gallery of Art Febru...
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Philippe Bordes, professor emeritus of art history, Université Lyon 2. Museums today give the painter Jacques Louis David (1748-1825) the same preeminent recognition that he enjoyed during his life...
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Barry Bergdoll, The Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design, The Museum of Modern Art, and professor, Columbia University. In first lecture, originally delivered at the National Gal...
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January 2011 - Patrizia von Brandenstein, Academy Award�winning production designer. Production designers define the appearance of a film, bringing to life written scripts by working with producers...
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Jess Cherry, artist, and education assistant with Art Around the Corner, department of gallery and studio learning, National Gallery of Art; Bryan Funk, artist, and adjunct professor, UDC; Maren He...
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Yuriko Jackall, assistant curator, department of French paintings, National Gallery of Art. When Joseph Bonaparte, elder brother of Napoleon, arrived in the United States in 1815, he brought with h...
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Barry Bergdoll, The Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design, The Museum of Modern Art, and professor, Columbia University. In the second lecture, originally delivered at the Nationa...
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January 2011 - Arthur K. Wheelock Jr., curator of northern baroque paintings, National Gallery of Art, and Stephanie S. Dickey, Bader Chair in Northern Baroque Art, Queen's University. Recorded on ...
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William Whitaker, senior art services specialist, office of the registrar, National Gallery of Art, in conversation with Molly Donovan, curator of contemporary art, department of modern art, Nation...
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Mary C. Panzer, historian of photography and American culture. The first exhibition to focus exclusively on photographs made in the eastern half of the United States during the 19th century, East o...
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Barry Bergdoll, The Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design, The Museum of Modern Art, and professor, Columbia University. In the third lecture, originally delivered at the National...
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January 2011 - Arthur K. Wheelock Jr., curator of northern baroque paintings, National Gallery of Art. In this podcast recorded on November 28, 2010, at the National Gallery of Art, Arthur Wheelock...
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Mary Morton, curator and head of French paintings, National Gallery of Art, in conversation with Jane Munro, keeper of paintings, drawings and prints, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, and director of...
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Alexander Nemerov, department chair and Carl and Marilynn Thoma Provostial Professor in the Arts and Humanities, Stanford University. In the six-part lecture series The Forest: America in the 1830s...
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Barry Bergdoll, The Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design, The Museum of Modern Art, and professor, Columbia University. In the fourth lecture, originally delivered at the Nationa...
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January 2011 - Daphne Barbour, senior object conservator, and Shelley Sturman, head of object conservation, National Gallery of Art. The National Gallery of Art holds the greatest collection in the...
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Richard Mosse, artist, with Sarah Greenough, senior curator and head of the department of photographs, National Gallery of Art, and Andrea Nelson, associate curator of photographs, National Gallery...
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Alexander Nemerov, department chair and Carl and Marilynn Thoma Provostial Professor in the Arts and Humanities, Stanford University. In the six-part lecture series The Forest: America in the 1830s...
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Barry Bergdoll, The Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design, The Museum of Modern Art, and professor, Columbia University. In the fifth lecture, originally delivered at the National...
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January 2011 - Robert Gober, artist, in conversation with Harry Cooper, curator and head of modern and contemporary art, National Gallery of Art. For 25 years the sculptural and pictorial installat...
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Andrew Butterfield, exhibition curator, and president of Andrew Butterfield Fine Arts Verrocchio: Sculptor and Painter of Renaissance Florence is the first-ever monographic exhibition in the United...
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Alexander Nemerov, department chair and Carl and Marilynn Thoma Provostial Professor in the Arts and Humanities, Stanford University. In the six-part lecture series The Forest: America in the 1830s...
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Barry Bergdoll, The Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design, The Museum of Modern Art, and professor, Columbia University. In the sixth and final lecture, originally delivered at th...
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January 2011 - Held in conjunction with the exhibition American Modernism: The Shein Collection, on view at the National Gallery of Art from May 16, 2010, to January 2, 2011, this public symposium ...
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Matthew Shindell, curator of planetary science, National Air and Space Museum The year 2019 marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing on July 20, 1969. Photography played a significa...
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Alexander Nemerov, department chair and Carl and Marilynn Thoma Provostial Professor in the Arts and Humanities, Stanford University. In the six-part lecture series The Forest: America in the 1830s...
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October 2013 - Binh Danh, artist, and Robert Schultz, John P. Fishwick Professor of English, Roanoke College. Binh Danh and Robert Schultz discuss their collaborative word and image exhibition War ...
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December 2010 - Panel discussion included, in order of participation: Sharmila Sen, general editor for the humanities, Harvard University Press; David Bindman, emeritus professor of the history of ...
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Jennifer Levasseur, curator of space history, National Air and Space Museum The year 2019 marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing on July 20, 1969. Photography played a significant...
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Alexander Nemerov, department chair and Carl and Marilynn Thoma Provostial Professor in the Arts and Humanities, Stanford University. In the six-part lecture series The Forest: America in the 1830s...
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October 2013 - Sarah Greenough, senior curator and head of the department of photographs, National Gallery of Art; Nancy Anderson, curator and head of the department of American and British paintin...
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December 2010 - Aim�e Brown Price, art historian, curator, and critic. Puvis de Chavannes played a crucial role in the development of late 19th- and early 20th-century modern art, influencing post-...
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David DeVorkin, senior curator of astronomy and the space sciences, National Air and Space Museum The year 2019 marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing on July 20, 1969. Photograph...
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Alexander Nemerov, department chair and Carl and Marilynn Thoma Provostial Professor in the Arts and Humanities, Stanford University. In the six-part lecture series The Forest: America in the 1830s...
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September 2013 - Judith Brodie, curator and head, department of modern prints and drawings, National Gallery of Art, and Adam Greenhalgh, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow, National G...
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December 2010 - Noted scholars Stephen Brooke, Martin Gasser, Olivier Lugon, and Alan Trachtenberg present illustrated lectures in this podcast, recorded on January 24, 2009, at the National Galler...
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Ray Barker, archivist of special collections/Washingtoniana, DC Public Library; Cynthia Connolly, artist, and booking agent, d.c. space; Claudia Joseph, artist, and booking agent, d.c. space; Rogel...
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Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professor, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art. The Simpson Collection at the National Gallery of Art is one...
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September 2013 - Sarah Kennel, associate curator, department of photographs, National Gallery of Art. Sarah Kennel, National Gallery of Art curator behind the exhibit Diaghilev and the Ballets Russ...
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December 2010 - John T. Spike, faculty of the masters in sacred architecture, arts, and liturgy organized by the European University of Rome and the Pontifical Athenaeum, "Regina Apostolorum." Mich...
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C. D. Dickerson III, curator and head of sculpture and decorative arts, National Gallery of Art Alonso Berruguete, active on the Iberian Peninsula during the first half of the 16th century, initial...
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Meredith J. Gill, professor of Italian Renaissance art and chair, department of art history and archaeology, University of Maryland, College Park. To think about angels among the world’s religions ...
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September 2013 - Vija Celmins, artist, in conversation with Jeffrey Weiss, curator and head of modern and contemporary art, National Gallery of Art (1999-2007). Latvian-born Vija Celmins is a leadi...
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December 2010 - Richard Brettell, Margaret McDermott Distinguished Chair of Art and Aesthetics, Interdisciplinary Program in Arts and Humanities, University of Texas at Dallas. Situated on 2,000 ac...
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Kara Fiedorek Felt, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow, department of photographs, National Gallery of Art, Washington Held on November 24, 2019, in conjunction with the exhibition The...
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Perry Y. Chin, architect, and Susan Wertheim, chief architect and deputy administrator for capital projects, National Gallery of Art. In celebration of the 100th birthday of architect I. M. Pei on ...
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September 2013 - Dr. Annette Insdorf, Columbia University . Dr. Annette Insdorf, director of undergraduate film studies and professor in the graduate film program of Columbia University's School of...
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December 2010 - Maygene Daniels, chief of Gallery Archives, National Gallery of Art, and Dorothy and Herbert Vogel, collectors. Dorothy and Herbert Vogel have amassed one of the greatest collection...
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USCO, also known as the Company of US or US Company, was a group of artists, poets, filmmakers, engineers, and composers who formed a multimedia collective in 1963. Two of its cofounders—Michael Ca...
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Jarob J. Ortiz, large-format staff photographer, Heritage Documentation Programs, National Park Service. In winter 2015, the National Park Service (NPS) advertised a job listing in search of the ne...
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September 2013 - Jeff Wall, artist. Canadian-born photographer Jeff Wall first became interested in photography in the mid-1960s. He was struck by the perfectionism that characterized the practice ...
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November 2010 - Michael Fried, J. R. Herbert Boone Professor of Humanities, The Johns Hopkins University, in conversation with Harry Cooper, curator and head of the department of modern and contemp...
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Charles Ritchie, artist, and former associate curator, department of modern prints and drawings, National Gallery of Art In this lecture held on October 27, 2019, in conjunction with the month-long...
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Kimberly A. Jones, curator of 19th-century French paintings, National Gallery of Art. Frédéric Bazille (1841–1870) was a central figure in the history of early impressionism who worked closely with...
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August 2013 - Barney A. Ebsworth, collector, in conversation with Franklin Kelly, curator of American and British paintings, National Gallery of Art. To celebrate the opening of Twentieth-Century ...
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November 2010 - Michael Fried, J. R. Herbert Boone Professor of Humanities and the History of Art, The Johns Hopkins University. In this podcast recorded on November 7, 2010, as part of the Sydney ...
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Marc Fumaroli (professor emeritus at the Collège de France and former Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professor at the National Gallery of Art) examines four landscape paintings by Jean Honoré Fragonard f...
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John A. Tyson, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow, National Gallery of Art. In his classic 1972 Artforum essay, critic Lawrence Alloway described the art world as a network. Taking cue...
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August 2013 - Lynn Garafola, professor of dance, Barnard College, Columbia University. Bronislava Nijinska, the sister of famed ballet dancer and choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky, was a pioneer of the...
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November 2010 - Dimitrios Pandermalis, president of the board of directors, Acropolis Museum, and professor of archaeology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, in conversation with Selma Holo, pr...
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Sir Nicholas Penny, currently visiting professor, National Academy of Art, Hangzhou; previously director, National Gallery, London (2008–2015); former senior curator of sculpture, National Gallery ...
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Christina Rosenberger, art historian. The abstract paintings of the American artist Agnes Martin (1912-2004) are often discussed in terms that approach religious devotion: they have been called a f...
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August 2013 - Tom Learner, head of modern and contemporary art research, Getty Conservation Institute, in conversation with artist De Wain Valentine. The International Network for the Conservation ...
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November 2010 - Paul Richard, art critic 1967?2009, The Washington Post. Paul Richard, who covered exhibitions at the National Gallery of Art before the East Building opened, reported on art for Th...
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David Gariff, Senior Lecturer, National Gallery of Art In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, this two-part lecture examines art and photography created during the He...
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Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel, commissioner, American Battle Monuments Commission; chairperson, Historic Landmarks Preservation Center; commissioner, New York City Landmarks Preservation Commis...
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July 2013 - Recital by pianist and filmmaker Lincoln Mayorga. A Suitcase Full of Chocolate recounts the extraordinary history of Sofia Cosma, a brilliant concert pianist whose career was suppressed...
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November 2010 - Jacqueline Francis, independent scholar. In this presentation recorded on February 8, 2009, as part of the National Gallery of Art lecture series The Collecting of African American ...
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David Gariff, Senior Lecturer, National Gallery of Art In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, this two-part lecture examines art and photography created during the He...
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Diane Waggoner, curator of nineteenth-century photographs, National Gallery of Art. The first exhibition to focus exclusively on photographs made in the eastern half of the United States during the...
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July 2013 - Debra Pincus, independent scholar. The letterforms of antiquity—both capitals and small letters—were brought back to life in the Renaissance, the result of a fervent study of ancient in...
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November 2010 - David Brown, curator, Italian and Spanish paintings, National Gallery of Art, and Sylvia Ferino-Pagden, curator, Italian Renaissance painting, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. Sixt...
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Dylan T. Smith, Robert H. Smith Research Conservator, department of object conservation, National Gallery of Art Between 1464 and 1473, Andrea del Verrocchio created two funerary monuments for the ...
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Elif Rongen, curator, EYE Film Institute, Amsterdam. Belgian-born film impresario Jean Desmet (1875 – 1956) spurred the growth of a new urban film culture in Europe before and during World War I. D...
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July 2013 - Margaret and Raymond Horowitz, collectors, in conversation with Nicolai Cikovsky Jr., senior curator of American and British paintings, National Gallery of Art, and Franklin Kelly, cura...
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October 2010 - Elizabeth Prelinger, Keyser Family Professor of Art History, Georgetown University, and Andrew Robison, senior curator of prints and drawings, National Gallery of Art. Elizabeth Prel...
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Gabriele Finaldi, director, National Gallery, London In his lecture, presented on December 8, 2019, Gabriele Finaldi of the National Gallery, London, discusses Mantegna's particular universe as con...
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Elif Rongen, curator, EYE Film Institute, Amsterdam. Belgian-born film impresario Jean Desmet (1875 – 1956) spurred the growth of a new urban film culture in Europe before and during World War I. D...
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July 2013 - Ross King, author. Although celebrated today as one of the world's greatest paintings, Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper had unusual and inauspicious beginnings. In this lecture recor...
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October 2010 - Alison Luchs, curator of early European sculpture, National Gallery of Art. Fantastic sea creatures can be found in early Venetian printed books, tomb sculpture, churches, political ...
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Zach Feldman, contractor, department of film programs, National Gallery of Art The notion of didactic art has been both lauded by the ancient Greeks as a powerful educational technique and dismisse...
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Elif Rongen, curator, EYE Film Institute, Amsterdam. Belgian-born film impresario Jean Desmet (1875 – 1956) spurred the growth of a new urban film culture in Europe before and during World War I. D...
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July 2013 - Eileen Costello, editor and project director, The Catalogue Raisonné of the Drawings of Jasper Johns, The Menil Collection. Over the course of his prolific career, from early 1960s mono...
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October 2010 - Virginia Heffernan, New York Times columnist and writer. Recorded at the National Gallery of Art on June 17, 2010, this podcast captures the stirring keynote address by New York Time...
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Alex Braden, artist, and Emily Francisco, artist, and gallery support specialist, department of media production, National Gallery of Art In this conversation held on November 4, 2019, as part of t...
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Alexander S. C. Rower, Calder’s grandson and president of the Calder Foundation, in conversation with Harry Cooper, curator of modern art, National Gallery of Art. Perhaps no artist has a larger pr...
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July 2013 - Panel discussion follows with Juliet Bellow, assistant professor, department of art, American University; Sarah Kennel, associate curator, department of photographs, National Gallery of...
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October 2010 - John Elderfield, chief curator emeritus of painting and sculpture, Museum of Modern Art, New York. Museum of Museum of Modern Art curator John Elderfield, the organizing curator of t...
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Sarah Hyde, development officer for planned giving, National Gallery of Art Cima da Conegliano was a prolific painter in the Venetian Renaissance known for his bright colors and spatial harmony in ...
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Over the past decade, American artist Theaster Gates (b. 1973) has explored the built environment and the power of art and culture to transform experience. For the second exhibition in the reopened...
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July 2013 - Simon Morrison, professor of music, Princeton University. This symposium and panel discussion recorded on June 1, 2013 at the National Gallery of Art honored the exhibit Diaghilev and t...
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September 2010 - Mark Leithauser, senior curator and head of design and installation, National Gallery of Art, and Philip Haas, artist and filmmaker. American artist and filmmaker Philip Haas (b. 1...
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Lara Langer, 2019 Mellon/ACLS Public Fellow In 1943 Lessing J. Rosenwald gifted roughly 6,000 works on paper to the nascent National Gallery of Art. By the time of his death in 1979, his collection...
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Elif Rongen, curator, EYE Film Institute, Amsterdam. Belgian-born film impresario Jean Desmet (1875 – 1956) spurred the growth of a new urban film culture in Europe before and during World War I. D...
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July 2013 - Kerry James Marshall in conversation with James Meyer, associate curator of modern art, National Gallery of Art. Kerry James Marshall has exhibited widely in both the United States and ...
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September 2010 - Ruth Fine, curator of special projects in modern art, National Gallery of Art. In this podcast recorded on June 22, 2008, for the Martin Puryear retrospective exhibition opening at...
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David C. Driskell, artist, curator, and Distinguished University Professor of Art, Emeritus, University of Maryland, College Park; and Curlee R. Holton, artist and director, David C. Driskell Cente...
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Alison Luchs, curator of early European sculpture and deputy head of sculpture and decorative arts, National Gallery of Art. A new art form emerged in fifteenth-century Florence through the genius ...
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July 2013 - Tim Scholl, professor of Russian and comparative literature, Oberlin College, and docent, department of theatre research, Helsinki University. This symposium and panel discussion record...
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September 2010 - Leo Villareal, artist, in conversation with Molly Donovan, associate curator of modern and contemporary art, National Gallery of Art. In this podcast recorded on September 7, 2008,...
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Kimberly Schenck, head of paper conservation, National Gallery of Art, and Stacey Sell, associate curator of old master drawings, National Gallery of Art Through the centuries, artists have adopted...
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Jamie Gabbarelli, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow, National Gallery of Art. On January 23, 2017, as part of a Works in Progress series at the National Gallery of Art, Jamie Gabbarel...
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June 2013 - Alison Hilton, Wright Family Professor of Art History, Georgetown University. This symposium and panel discussion recorded on June 1, 2013 at the National Gallery of Art honored the exh...
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September 2010 - Richard Misrach, photographer. American photographer Richard Misrach's monumental color photographs explore the sublime beauty and inherent danger of the sea and its surroundings. ...
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Makeda Best, Richard L. Menschel Curator of Photography, Harvard Art Museums On the 180th anniversary of photography’s introduction to the world in 1839, The Eye of the Sun: Nineteenth-Century Phot...
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Lynne Cooke, senior curator, special projects in modern art, National Gallery of Art, in conversation with Douglas Crimp, art historian, critic, and Fanny Knapp Allen Professor of Art History and p...
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June 2013 - Sarah Kennel, associate curator, department of photographs, National Gallery of Art, and Jane Pritchard, curator of dance, Victoria and Albert Museum. The Ballets Russes was the most in...
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August 2010 - Joseph Baillio, Gail Feigenbaum, Francis Gage, John Oliver Hand, Benedict Leca, Richard Rand, Pauline Maguire Robison, and Elizabeth Walmsley. This podcast recorded on January 24, 201...
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Antoinette Le Normand-Romain (former director of the Institut national d’histoire de l’art and former Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professor at the National Gallery of Art) discusses Auguste Rodin’s sc...
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Lynne Cooke, senior curator, special projects in modern art, National Gallery of Art; Joan Jonas, artist; and Jason Moran, pianist and artistic director for jazz, John F. Kennedy Center for the Per...
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June 2013 - Anna Winestein, executive director, Ballets Russes Cultural Partnership. This symposium and panel discussion recorded on June 1, 2013 at the National Gallery of Art honored the exhibit ...
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August 2010 - Susan L. Siegfried, professor of history of art and women's studies, University of Michigan. The nineteenth-century French painter, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, is often credited as...
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David Gariff, senior lecturer, National Gallery of Art Italian sculpture of the 15th century in Florence and Tuscany, departed from the elegant, decorative style of the earlier Gothic period to ref...
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Sarah Greenough, senior curator and head, department of photographs, National Gallery of Art. Many of the artists associated with the photographer and gallery director Alfred Stieglitz explored abs...
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June 2013 - Sjeng Scheijen, postdoctoral researcher, Veni Laureate, Leiden University. This symposium and panel discussion recorded on June 1, 2013 at the National Gallery of Art honored the exhibi...
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August 2010 - Jonathan Conlin, lecturer in modern history, University of Southampton; Maygene Daniels, chief of Gallery Archives, National Gallery of Art; Margaret Parsons, head of film programs, N...
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Eric Denker, senior lecturer, National Gallery of Art The 2019 Summer Sunday Lecture Series, Celebrating the Old Master Collections of the National Gallery of Art, takes a closer look at the many t...
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Tom Nichols, Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art. This lecture by Tom Nichols, held on December 9, 2016, at the National Galler...
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June 2013 - Sean Scully, artist. In this podcast recorded on March 8, 2007, at the National Gallery of Art as part of the Elson Lecture Series, Sean Scully, an artist of international acclaim, disc...
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August 2010 - Bill Morgan, writer and archivist Bill Morgan, the preeminent authority on the Beat Generation, discusses his work as the archivist and bibliographer for his personal friend, American...
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Daniel Boomhower, director of the research library, Dumbarton Oaks; Sir Peter Crane, president, Oak Spring Garden Foundation; Nancy E. Gwinn, director, Smithsonian Libraries; Carla Hayden, Libraria...
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Jane McFadden, department chair of humanities and sciences, ArtCenter College of Design. For the public symposium held on November 19, 2016, in conjunction with the exhibition Los Angeles to New Yo...
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June 2013 - Sarah McPhee, Winship Distinguished Research Professor, Emory University. Costanza Piccolomini was Gianlorenzo Bernini's beloved. His passion for this woman was so strong it inspired th...
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August 2010 - James Turrell, artist. James Turrell began working in the 1960s, when many artists abandoned conventional painting and sculpture for new media and an expanded definition of art practi...
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Dianne Stephens, senior educator, National Gallery of Art The 2019 Summer Sunday Lecture Series, Celebrating the Old Master Collections of the National Gallery of Art, takes a closer look at the ma...
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Emily Taub Webb, professor of art history, Savannah College of Art and Design. Supporting her stable of artists and their often-experimental practices remained Virginia Dwan’s primary aim as direct...
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May 2013 - Mark Samuels Lasner, senior research fellow, University of Delaware Library, in conversation with Diane Waggoner, associate curator, department of photographs, National Gallery of Art. W...
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August 2010 - Andrew Robison, Andrew W. Mellon Senior Curator of Prints and Drawings, National Gallery of Art, and Elizabeth Prelinger, Keyser Family Professor of Art History at Georgetown Universi...
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David Gariff, senior lecturer, National Gallery of Art The 2019 Summer Sunday Lecture series takes a closer look at the many treasures housed in the Gallery’s permanent collection. Works by Italian...
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Tom Gunning, Edwin A. and Betty L. Bergman Distinguished Service Professor, department of art history, department of cinema and media studies, University of Chicago. In this Rajiv Vaidya Memorial L...
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May 2013 - Robert Edsel, author and founder and president, Monuments Men Foundation for the Preservation of Art. In August 1943, on the eve of the Allied invasion of Italy, Allied bombs threatened ...
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August 2010 - Robert M. Edsel, author, founder, and president, Monuments Men Foundation for the Preservation of Art. During World War II, a special force known as the Monuments Men, of museum direc...
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Eric Denker, senior lecturer, National Gallery of Art The 2019 Summer Sunday Lecture Series, Celebrating the Old Master Collections of the National Gallery of Art, takes a closer look at the many t...
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Patricia Fortini Brown, professor emerita of art and archaeology, Princeton University. When we think of Venice, we think of a city in the sea, a city surrounded by water. And yet, before the moder...
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September 2010 - Dorothy and Herbert Vogel, collectors, in conversation with Ruth Fine, curator of special projects in modern art, National Gallery of Art. New York art collectors Dorothy and Herbe...
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July 2010 - Rachel Whiteread, artist, in conversation with Molly Donovan, associate curator of modern and contemporary art, National Gallery of Art. British sculptor Rachel Whiteread has enjoyed in...
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Heidi Applegate, guest lecturer The 2019 Summer Sunday Lecture Series takes a closer look at the many treasures housed in the Gallery’s permanent collection. Works by Italian, French, Dutch, and Am...
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Artists Joan Snyder and David Reed in conversation with Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, distinguished professor of psychology and management and founding codirector of the Quality of Life Research Center,...
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May 2013 - Tina Barney, artist; Sarah Greenough, senior curator and head of the department of photographs, National Gallery of Art; Sarah Lewis, art historian, author and curator; Clifford Ross, a...
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July 2010 - Mel Bochner, artist, in conversation with Jeffrey Weiss, curator and head of the department of modern and contemporary art, National Gallery of Art. Mel Bochner is one of the most promi...
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Oliver Lee Jackson, artist, in conversation with Harry Cooper, senior curator and head of modern art, National Gallery of Art American painter, printmaker, and sculptor Oliver Lee Jackson (b. 1935)...
ListenDrawings for Paintings in the Age of Rembrandt: The Creative Process from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Arthur K. Wheelock Jr., curator of northern baroque paintings, National Gallery of Art. In this lecture held on December 11, 2016, at the National Gallery of Art, Arthur K. Wheelock Jr. introduces ...
ListenPre-Raphaelitism and International Modernisms Symposium: Seduction or Salvation: Aesthetic Immersion in the Work of Edward Burne-Jones from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
March 2013 - Andrea Wolk Rager, assistant professor of art history, Case Western Reserve University. Held in conjunction with the exhibition Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Art and Design, 1848–1900, th...
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July 2010 - Chuck Close, artist, in conversation with Jeffrey Weiss, curator of 20th-century art, National Gallery of Art. This podcast recorded on October 17, 1999, was the first program in the Di...
ListenThe End of the Sixties: Kerry James Marshall’s “Mementos” from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
James Meyer, curator of modern art, National Gallery of Art In his book The Art of Return: The Sixties and Contemporary Culture, introduced at the National Gallery of Art on September 8, 2019, Jame...
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Rivalry is at the heart of some of the most famous and fruitful relationships in history. In The Art of Rivalry: Four Friendships, Betrayals, and Breakthroughs in Modern Art, Sebastian Smee tells t...
ListenPre-Raphaelitism and International Modernisms Symposium: The Craftsman's Dream: The Pre-Raphaelites and the Arts and Crafts Movement from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
March 2013 - Morna O'Neill, assistant professor of 18th- and 19th-century European art, Wake Forest University. Held in conjunction with the exhibition Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Art and Design, 18...
Listen"Synecdoche": The Relationship of Big to Small in the Work of Byron Kim from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
July 2010 - Byron Kim, artist, and Molly Donovan, associate curator of modern and contemporary art, National Gallery of Art. In this podcast recorded on January 10, 2010, at the National Gallery of...
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Heidi Applegate, guest lecturer The 2019 Summer Sunday Lecture Series takes a closer look at the many treasures housed in the Gallery’s permanent collection. Works by Italian, French, Dutch, and Am...
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Robert Hobbs, Rhoda Thalhimer Endowed Chair, Virginia Commonwealth University, and visiting professor, Yale University. Among twentieth-century artistic styles, minimalism is remarkable for the gre...
ListenPre-Raphaelitism and International Modernisms Symposium: Tirra Lirra in a Mirror: Rhyming Visual and Verbal Form from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
March 2013 - Elizabeth Helsinger, John Matthews Manly Distinguished Service Professor, departments of English, art history, and visual arts, University of Chicago. Held in conjunction with the exh...
ListenAbout Abstraction: A Conversation with Melvin Edwards, Sam Gilliam, and William T. Williams from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
June 2010 - Ruth Fine, curator of special projects in modern art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, in conversation with artists Melvin Edwards, Sam Gilliam, and William T. Williams. On February...
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David Gariff, senior lecturer, National Gallery of Art The 2019 Summer Sunday Lecture Series focuses on the outstanding collections of old master paintings in the National Gallery of Art, and also ...
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Alex Potts, Max Loehr Collegiate Professor, University of Michigan For the public symposium held on November 19, 2016, in conjunction with the exhibition Los Angeles to New York: Dwan Gallery, 1959...
ListenPre-Raphaelitism and International Modernisms Symposium: Can Sculpture Be Pre-Raphaelite? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
March 2013 - Michael Hatt, professor of the history of art, University of Warwick. Held in conjunction with the exhibition Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Art and Design, 1848–1900, this symposium expl...
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June 2010 - Harold Holzer, cochair, United States Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission According to noted expert Harold Holzer, United States President Abraham Lincoln transformed the city of Wa...
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Heidi Applegate, guest lecturer The 2019 Summer Sunday Lecture Series takes a closer look at the many treasures housed in the Gallery’s permanent collection. Works by Italian, French, Dutch, and Am...
ListenLos Angeles to New York: Dwan Gallery, 1959 – 1971, II: Learning from LA from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Julia Robinson, associate professor, department of art history, New York University Accounts of postwar art have, until now, positioned Virginia Dwan as a figure of the late 1960s, focusing on her ...
ListenEngaging with American Furniture: Looking Back, Moving Forward Symposium: Lafayette River to the Potomac: The Kaufman Collection at the National Gallery of Art from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
April 2013 - Mark Leithauser, senior curator and chief of design, National Gallery of Art. This symposium honored the newly unveiled installation Masterpieces of American Furniture from the Kaufma...
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June 2010 - Ruth Fine, curator of special projects in modern art, National Gallery of Art, and collectors Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Dorothy and Herbert Vogel have amassed one of the greatest collec...
ListenAmerican Pre-Raphaelitism through the Lens and on the Canvas from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Sophie Lynford, doctoral candidate in the history of art, Yale University; Diane Waggoner, curator of 19th-century photographs, National Gallery of Art In celebration of the 200th anniversary of th...
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Harry Cooper, curator and head, department of modern art, National Gallery of Art. As one of the most important American modernists, Stuart Davis (1892–1964) blurred distinctions between text and i...
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April 2013 - Wendy A. Cooper, Lois F. and Henry S. McNeil Senior Curator of Furniture, Winterthur Museum. This symposium honored the newly unveiled installation Masterpieces of American Furniture ...
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June 2010 - Nancy Anderson, curator, American and British paintings, National Gallery of Art, and Charles Brock, associate curator, American and British paintings, National Gallery of Art. Disting...
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Ken Burns, filmmaker, in conversation with David M. Rubenstein, co-founder and co-CEO of The Carlyle Group, chairman of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, trustee of the National G...
ListenJohn Wilmerding Symposium on American Art, VI: Rockwell Kent and the End of the World from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Justin Wolff, associate professor of art history, University of Maine In November 1937 Life magazine featured four lithographs by the American artist Rockwell Kent (1882-1971) in the article “Four ...
ListenPre-Raphaelitism and International Modernisms Symposium: Q and A (Day 1) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
March 2013 - Diane Waggoner, associate curator, department of photographs, National Gallery of Art, Jason Rosenfeld, distinguished chair and professor of art history, Marymount Manhattan College, ...
ListenThe Sydney J. Freedberg Lecture on Italian Art 2009: Ghiberti and the Painters of Florence from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
May 2010 - Keith Christiansen, John Pope-Hennessy Chairman of European Paintings, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Keith Christiansen explores the complex relationship of painting and sculpture in 1...
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Paul Carter Harrison, playwright and expert in African American theatre, and Quincy Troupe, poet, in conversation with Harry Cooper, senior curator and head of modern art, National Gallery of Art A...
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Pamela M. Lee, Osgood Hooker Professorship in Fine Arts, Stanford University. In 1969 Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson collaborated on their first video together, East Coast, West Coast. Clocking in ...
ListenPre-Raphaelitism and International Modernisms Symposium: Introduction: Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
March 2013 - Tim Barringer, Paul Mellon Professor of the History of Art and director of graduate studies, Yale University. Held in conjunction with the exhibition Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Art an...
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May 2010 - P. Adams Sitney, professor of visual arts, Princeton University. P. Adams Sitney, distinguished film historian, theorist, and professor of visual arts at Princeton University, delivered ...
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David Gariff, senior lecturer, National Gallery of Art. The First World War, known as the Great War, was also the first modern war, claiming millions of lives, in part, by newly invented weapons su...
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Randall Griffey, associate curator, department of modern and contemporary art, Metropolitan Museum of Art. American painter Marsden Hartley (1877-1943) entered the modernist canon as a result of th...
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April 2013 - Edward Cooke, chair and Charles F. Montgomery Professor of American Decorative Arts, Yale University. This symposium honored the newly unveiled installation Masterpieces of American F...
ListenBeat Memories: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg: Part 2, Revisiting and Reprinting from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
May 2010 - Sarah Greenough, senior curator, department of photographs, National Gallery of Art, Washington, and Bill Morgan, author and Ginsberg archivist. In the early 1980s American poet Allen Gi...
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John Hobson, staff assistant, department of special projects, National Gallery of Art The study of Slovene photography has remained intertwined with the medium’s specific relation to pan-Yugoslavia...
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Rachael Z. DeLue, associate professor, department of art and archaeology, Princeton University. The modern American artist Arthur Dove (1880–1946) drew inspiration from the natural world when makin...
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April 2013 - Cordula Grewe, associate professor of art history, Columbia University. Held in conjunction with the exhibition Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Art and Design, 1848–1900, this symposium ex...
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May 2010 - Sarah Greenough, senior curator, department of photographs, National Gallery of Art, Washington, and Bill Morgan, author and Ginsberg archivist.American poet Allen Ginsberg took occasion...
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Jeffreen M. Hayes, executive director, Threewalls An outstanding sculptor associated with the intellectual and cultural awakening known as the Harlem Renaissance, Augusta Savage (1892-1962) overcam...
ListenJohn Wilmerding Symposium on American Art, III: Seeing in Detail: Frederic Church and the Language of Landscape from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Jennifer Raab, assistant professor, department of the history of art, Yale University. What does it mean to see a work of art “in detail”? Speaking at the inaugural John Wilmerding Symposium on Ame...
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April 2013 - Wendy Bellion, associate professor and director of undergraduate studies, University of Delaware. This symposium honored the newly unveiled installation Masterpieces of American Furnit...
ListenThe Diamonstein-Spielvogel Lecture Series: Brice Marden on Art from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
May 2010 - Brice Marden, artist, in conversation with Harry Cooper, curator and head of modern and contemporary art, National Gallery of Art, Washington. As part of the Diamonstein-Spielvogel Lectu...
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Kristen Gonzalez, department of northern baroque paintings, National Gallery of Art Jacobus Vrel is not exactly a household name. A painter of quiet Dutch genre scenes, he produced some fifty works...
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Jane Kamensky, professor of history and Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Director of the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University. Looking through the eye...
ListenPre-Raphaelitism and International Modernisms Symposium: Ripe for Revolution? Reconsidering "The New Path" and the American Pre-Raphaelites from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
April 2013 - Linda S. Ferber, vice president and senior art historian, New-York Historical Society. Held in conjunction with the exhibition Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Art and Design, 1848–1900, t...
ListenElson Lecture 2010: Susan Rothenberg: A Life in Painting from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
April 2010 - Harry Cooper, curator and head of modern and contemporary art, National Gallery of Art, in conversation with Susan Rothenberg, artist. Over the past 30 years, Susan Rothenberg has done...
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Lorena Bradford, accessible programs, department of education, National Gallery of Art Since it opened to the public in 1978, the East Building has been recognized as one of the National Gallery of...
ListenJohn Wilmerding Symposium on American Art, II: Which is Which? The Serious Fun of Trompe l'Oeil from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Wendy Bellion, associate professor, department of art history, University of Delaware. Trompe l’oeil art challenges viewers to make perceptual distinctions between things that look extraordinarily ...
ListenIntroduction to the Exhibition:"Albrecht Dürer: Master Drawings, Watercolors, and Prints from the Albertina" from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
March 2013 - Andrew Robison, A.W. Mellon Senior Curator of Prints and Drawings, National Gallery of Art To celebrate the exhibition opening of Albrecht Dürer: Master Drawings, Watercolors, and Prin...
ListenHendrick Avercamp: The Little Ice Age: Part 2, One Community on the Ice from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
April 2010 - Arthur K. Wheelock Jr., curator, northern baroque painting, National Gallery of Art, Washington, and Bianca du Mortier, curator of costume, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. In the second of thi...
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David Gariff, senior lecturer, National Gallery of Art. David Smith (1906–1965) is arguably America’s greatest sculptor of the 20th century. His art enlarged the vocabulary of sculpture by employin...
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Molly Donovan, associate curator, department of modern art, National Gallery of Art. A focus installation on the work of American artist Barbara Kruger (b. 1945) will reopen the East Building Tower...
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March 2013 - Scott Allan, associate curator of paintings, J. Paul Getty Museum. Held in conjunction with the exhibition Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Art and Design, 1848–1900, this symposium explore...
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April 2010 - Arthur K. Wheelock Jr., curator, northern baroque painting, National Gallery of Art, Washington, and Pieter Roelofs, curator of 17th-century paintings, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. The vibr...
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David Gariff, senior lecturer, National Gallery of Art. David Smith (1906–1965) is arguably America’s greatest sculptor of the 20th century. His art enlarged the vocabulary of sculpture by employin...
ListenJohn Wilmerding Symposium on American Art, I: Still Life and America from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Mark D. Mitchell, Holcombe T. Green Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture, Yale University Art Gallery. The genre of still life has enjoyed unexpected power in America’s artistic tradition. I...
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March 2013 - Glenn Ligon, artist, with Molly Donovan and James Meyer, associate curators of modern art, National Gallery of Art. Glenn Ligon’s intertextual works examine cultural and social identit...
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April 2010 - Nicholas Penny, director, The National Gallery, London. On March 7, 2010, the National Gallery of Art welcomed back former senior curator of sculpture Nicholas Penny, now director of t...
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Stephen Bann (professor emeritus, University of Bristol, and former Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professor at the National Gallery of Art) discusses reproductive engravings by Léopold Flameng in public...
ListenThe Reception of Paolo Veronese in Britain (c. 1600–1900) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Peter Humfrey, emeritus professor of art history, University of St. Andrews. In this lecture recorded on October 12, 2016, at the National Gallery of Art, Peter Humfrey surveys the reception of Ven...
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March 2013 - Diane Waggoner, associate curator, department of photographs, National Gallery of Art, Jason Rosenfeld, distinguished chair and professor of art history, Marymount Manhattan College. H...
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March 2010 - Xavier Bray, assistant curator, European paintings, National Gallery, London. The groundbreaking exhibition The Sacred Made Real: Spanish Painting and Sculpture, 1600?1700, a landmark ...
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Mollie Berger Salah, curatorial assistant, department of prints and drawings, National Gallery of Art. In this lecture on May 6, 2019, as part of the Works in Progress Lecture Series at the Nationa...
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Thomas Struth, artist, in conversation with Philip Brookman, consulting curator, department of photographs, National Gallery of Art, and Andrea Nelson, associate curator, department of photographs,...
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March 2013 - Mia Fineman, assistant curator, department of photographs, Metropolitan Museum of Art The urge to modify camera images is as old as photography itself—only the methods have changed. F...
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March 2010 - Xavier Bray, assistant curator, European paintings, National Gallery, London, and David Brown, curator of Italian and Spanish painting, National Gallery of Art, Washington. In the seco...
ListenFrom the Cathedral to the Billiard Room: Tracing the History of a Medieval Stained Glass Window from the William A. Clark Collection from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Elizabeth Dent, exhibition associate, National Gallery of Art. In 2014 the National Gallery of Art acquired a thirteenth-century French stained glass window from the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Origin...
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Paige Rozanski, curatorial assistant, department of modern art, National Gallery of Art. In this lecture held on September 26, 2016, as part of the Works in Progress series at the National Gallery ...
ListenConversations with Collectors: Robert and Jane Meyerhoff from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
March 2013 - Robert and Jane Meyerhoff, collectors, in conversation with Irving Blum, collector and co-founder of the Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles. To celebrate the exhibition opening of The Robert a...
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March 2010 - Xavier Bray, assistant curator, European paintings, National Gallery, London, and Mary Levkoff, curator of sculpture and decorative arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington. In 17th-c...
ListenThe Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professors at the National Gallery of Art: Richard J. Powell from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Richard J. Powell (John Spencer Bassett Professor of Art and Art History at Duke University and former Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professor at the National Gallery of Art) discusses Archibald J. Motl...
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Virginia Dwan, collector, and James Meyer, deputy director and chief curator, Dia Art Foundation. The remarkable career of gallerist and patron Virginia Dwan is featured front and center for the fi...
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March 2013 - Tim Barringer, Paul Mellon Professor of the History of Art and director of graduate studies, Yale University; Jason Rosenfeld, distinguished chair and professor of art history, Marymou...
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February 2010, Notable Lecture - Robert Darnton, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the University Library, Harvard University. In this podcast, recorded on January 22, 2010, ...
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Jarob J. Ortiz, is a large-format photographer with the Heritage Documentation Programs of the National Park Service (NPS). In the winter of 2015, the NPS commenced a job search for the next Ansel ...
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Artists Leonardo Drew and Jennie C. Jones with Pamela J. Joyner, collector. The Joyner/Giuffrida Collection of Abstract Art is widely recognized as one of the most significant collections of modern...
ListenColorforms: Ellsworth Kelly and the Colored Paper Images from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
February 2013 - Charles Ritchie, associate curator of modern prints and drawings, National Gallery of Art While Ellsworth Kelly is best known for crafting pristine, monochrome shapes, he has period...
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February 2010, Art Talk - Kimberly A. Jones, associate curator, department of French paintings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, and chef Michel Richard of Citronelle and Central in Washington,...
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Miwako Tezuka, consulting curator, Reversible Destiny Foundation Artworks representing animals—real or imaginary, religious or secular—span the full breadth and splendor of Japanese artistic produc...
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Carlos Garaicoa, artist, in conversation with Michelle Bird, curatorial assistant, department of French paintings, National Gallery of Art, and Andrea Nelson, associate curator, department of photo...
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February 2013 - Gwendolyn H. Everett, assistant professor, department of art, Howard University Gwendolyn H. Everett, scholar and author of the award-winning children's book Li'L Sis and Uncle Will...
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February 2010, Art Talk - Kimberly A. Jones, conservateur, d?partement des peintures fran?aises, National Gallery of Art, Washington, et Chef Michel Richard de Citronelle et Central, ? Washington, ...
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Federico Marcon, associate professor of East Asian studies and history and director of graduate studies, Princeton University Artworks representing animals—real or imaginary, religious or secular—s...
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Elizabeth Alexander, poet, essayist, playwright and scholar; chancellor, Academy of American Poets; director of creativity and free expression, Ford Foundation; and Wun Tsun Tam Mellon Professor in...
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February 2013 - Richard Shiff, Effie Marie Cain Regents Chair in Art and professor of history of art, University of Texas at Austin. The exhibition Willem de Kooning: Paintings, on view at the Nati...
ListenFrom Impressionism to Modernism: The Chester Dale Collection: Part 2, Getting to Know Maud and Chester Dale from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
January 2010, Art Talk - Maygene Daniels, chief of Gallery Archives, National Gallery of Art, and Franklin Kelly, deputy director, National Gallery of Art. The 1962 bequest of Wall Street investor ...
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Daniel McKee, adjunct assistant professor and bibliographer, department of Asian studies, Cornell University Artworks representing animals—real or imaginary, religious or secular—span the full brea...
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Lorna Simpson, artist. Born in 1960 in Brooklyn, New York, Lorna Simpson earned her BFA in photography from the School of Visual Arts, New York, in 1983, and her MFA from the University of Californ...
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February 2013 - Tania Bruguera, artist; Tom Finkelpearl, executive director, Queens Museum of Art; and Mierle Laderman Ukeles, artist. Socially cooperative art is a field not well understood by man...
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January 2010, Art Talk - Wall Street investor Chester Dale's 1962 bequest made the National Gallery of Art one of the leading repositories in North America of French art of the late 19th and early ...
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Rory A. W. Browne, director of the academic advising center and associate dean of Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences, Boston College Artworks representing animals—real or imaginary, religious o...
ListenDiamonstein-Spielvogel Lecture Series: Jenny Holzer: Public Art from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Jenny Holzer in conversation with Harry Cooper, curator and head of modern and contemporary art, National Gallery of Art, Washington. Jenny Holzer discusses her powerful text-based work with curato...
ListenArtists in Residence: Henry O. Tanner in the Holy Land from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
February 2013 - Gwendolyn H. Everett, lecturer, National Gallery of Art. As part of the Artist in Residence lecture series, Gwendolyn H. Everett focused on Henry Ossawa Tanner's (1859-1937) visits ...
ListenReading of "The Fisherwoman" by Toni Morrison from Robert Bergman's book A Kind of Rapture, in conjunction with the exhibition Robert Bergman: Portraits, 1986?1995 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
December 2009, Notable Lectures - Using a handheld 35 mm camera and available light, American photographer Robert Bergman spent nearly a decade making a series of large color portraits that address...
ListenThe Roles and Representations of Animals in Japanese Art and Culture, Part 3 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
R. Keller Kimbrough, professor of Japanese, department of Asian languages and civilizations, University of Colorado, Boulder Artworks representing animals—real or imaginary, religious or secular—sp...
ListenA Closer Look at Artists’ Practices and Techniques from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Daphne Barbour, senior conservator, department of object conservation, National Gallery of Art; Jay Krueger, head of painting conservation, department of painting conservation, National Gallery of ...
ListenMichelangelo's David-Apollo: An Offer He Couldn't Refuse from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
February 2013 - Alison Luchs, curator of early European sculpture, National Gallery of Art Michelangelo created the statue now known as David-Apollo around 1530 to please the tyrannical governor of...
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December 2009, Behind the Scenes - Molly Donovan, associate curator, department of modern and contemporaryart, National Gallery of Art, Washington. In 2009 the National Gallery of Art commissioned ...
ListenThe Roles and Representations of Animals in Japanese Art and Culture, Part 2 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Barbara Rossetti Ambros, professor in East Asian religions and department chair, department of religious studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and co-chair, Animals and Religion Gro...
ListenTravels in Regency England: Prince Pückler’s Letters of a Dead Man from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Linda B. Parshall, professor of German literature and language, Portland State University; John Beardsley, director of garden and landscape studies, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection. ...
ListenHistorical Perspectives: African American Art from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
February 2013 - David C. Driskell, artist, curator, and professor of art, University of Maryland, College Park . On January 11, 1990, the National Gallery of Art announced an initiative to address ...
ListenIn the Darkroom: Photographic Processes before the Digital Age from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
November 2009, Behind the Scenes - Sarah Kennel, associate curator, department of photographs, National Gallery of Art, Washington. The extraordinary range and complexity of the photographic proces...
ListenThe Roles and Representations of Animals in Japanese Art and Culture, Part 1 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Sarah E. Thompson, curator of Japanese art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Artworks representing animals—real or imaginary, religious or secular—span the full breadth and splendor of Japanese artistic...
ListenCelebrating a Milestone: 75 Years of the National Gallery of Art and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, VI: Presenting the Kress Collection: Restoration and Framing from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Elizabeth Walmsley, painting conservator, National Gallery of Art, and Steve Wilcox, senior conservator of frames, National Gallery of Art. When the National Gallery of Art opened its doors in Marc...
ListenOf Times and Spaces: On Looking at Thomas Struth and Candida Höfer from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
January 2013 - Charles W. Haxthausen, Robert Sterling Clark Professor of Art History, Williams College. "My work," the German photo artist Candida Höfer has said, "is about making images of spaces....
ListenEditions with Additions: Working Proofs by Jasper Johns from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
November 2009, Behind the Scenes - Ruth Fine, curator of special projects in modern art, National Gallery of Art, Washington. The prints of Jasper Johns are heralded for their beauty as well as the...
ListenShared Exploration: Music and the Visual Arts from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Oliver Lee Jackson, artist; Marty Ehrlich and Oliver Lake, musicians; and Harry Cooper, senior curator and head of modern art, National Gallery of Art, in conversation with A.B. Spellman, poet, mus...
ListenPeter Hutton: Landscape and Time from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Peter Hutton, Charles Franklin Kellogg and Grace E. Ramsey Kellogg Professor of the Arts, Bard College. One of our great poets of place and time, Peter Hutton (1944–2016) is renowned for his 16mm f...
ListenRoy Lichtenstein's Kyoto Prize Lecture of 1995 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
January 2013 - Harry Cooper, curator and head, department of modern art, National Gallery of Art, with original slides courtesy of the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein. On N...
ListenRobert Bergman: Portraits, 1986?1995: A Conversation with the Photographer from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
October 2009, Behind the Scenes - Sarah Greenough, senior curator, department of photographs, National Gallery of Art, Washington, and photographer Robert Bergman. Using a handheld 35mm camera and ...
ListenIf I Survive: Frederick Douglass and Family in the Walter O. Evans Collection from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Celeste-Marie Bernier, professor of United States and Atlantic Studies and personal chair in English literature, School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, University of Edinburgh; in conversat...
ListenIntroducing Hubert Robert from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Margaret Morgan Grasselli, curator and head, department of old master drawings, National Gallery of Art; and Yuriko Jackall, assistant curator, department of French paintings, National Gallery of A...
ListenA Conversation with Calvin Tomkins: "Duchamp: A Biography" from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
January 2013 - Ruth Fine, curator of modern prints and drawings, National Gallery of Art, and Calvin Tomkins, author and staff writer, The New Yorker. In this conversation with Ruth Fine recorded o...
ListenHendrick ter Brugghen's "Bagpipe Player" from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
October 2009, Behind the Scenes - Arthur K. Wheelock Jr., curator, northern baroque painting, National Gallery of Art, Washington. Dutch artist Hendrick ter Brugghen (1588?1629) is the most importa...
ListenTintoretto Lecture Series, Part 4—In Situ: Tintoretto in Venice from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Eric Denker, Senior Lecturer and Manager of Gallery Talks and Lectures for Adults, National Gallery of Art On the occasion of the exhibition of Tintoretto: Artist of Renaissance Venice, Eric Denker...
ListenCelebrating a Milestone: 75 Years of the National Gallery of Art and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, V: History Revealed: The Kress Collection of Historic Images from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Melissa Beck Lemke, image specialist for Italian art, National Gallery of Art. When the National Gallery of Art opened its doors in March 1941, the original Andrew W. Mellon gift was augmented by a...
ListenA Sculptor Looks at Rodin's Work from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
January 2013 - Sidney Geist, sculptor, and professor of sculpture, New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture. In conjunction with the exhibition Rodin Rediscovered, on view at the ...
ListenThe Darker Side of Light: Arts of Privacy, 1850?1900 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
September 2009, Behind the Scenes - Peter Parshall, curator, old master prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington. In the private worlds of late nineteenth-century Paris, London, and Berlin, prin...
ListenTintoretto Lecture Series, Part 3—Tintoretto Central: The Scuola Grande di San Rocco from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Eric Denker, senior lecturer and manager of gallery talks and lectures for adults, National Gallery of Art On the occasion of the exhibition of Tintoretto: Artist of Renaissance Venice, Eric Denker...
ListenCelebrating a Milestone: 75 Years of the National Gallery of Art and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, IV: Princes, Dukes, and Counts: Provenance and Pedigrees in the Kress Collection from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Nancy H. Yeide, head, department of curatorial records, National Gallery of Art. When the National Gallery of Art opened its doors in March 1941, the original Andrew W. Mellon gift was augmented by...
ListenConcerning America, and Alfred Stieglitz, and Myself from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
January 2013 - Emmet Gowin, photographer and professor of visual arts, Princeton University. In the first of two lectures honoring the exhibition Stieglitz in the Darkroom, on view at the National ...
ListenRenaissance to Revolution: French Drawings at the National Gallery of Art: Part 3, History of the Collection from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
September 2009, Behind the Scenes - Margaret Morgan Grasselli, curator, old master drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington. The National Gallery of Art's collection of French old master drawi...
ListenTintoretto Lecture Series, Part 2—Tintoretto: The Early Work from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Eric Denker, senior lecturer and manager of gallery talks and lectures for adults, National Gallery of Art On the occasion of the exhibition of Tintoretto: Artist of Renaissance Venice, Eric Denker...
ListenConversations with Artists: Helen Frankenthaler from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Helen Frankenthaler’s use of radiant color and her capacity to manipulate a rich variety of materials and print processes have been widely admired throughout her career. Helen Frankenthaler: Prints...
ListenArt and Espionage: Michael Straight's Giorgione from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
January 2013 - David Alan Brown, curator of Italian and Spanish paintings, National Gallery of Art. In 1974, Michael Whitney Straight, scion of the Whitney family and an American arts administrator...
ListenRenaissance to Revolution: French Drawings at the National Gallery of Art: Part 2, The 18th Century from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
September 2009, Behind the Scenes - Margaret Morgan Grasselli, curator, old master drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington. The National Gallery of Art's collection of French old master drawi...
ListenTintoretto Lecture Series, Part 1—Tintoretto in Context: Framing Tintoretto: Sixteenth-Century Venetian Painting from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Eric Denker, senior lecturer and manager of gallery talks and lectures for adults, National Gallery of Art On the occasion of the exhibition of Tintoretto: Artist of Renaissance Venice, Eric Denker...
ListenCelebrating a Milestone: 75 Years of the National Gallery of Art and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, III: The Leveraged Gift: The Making of the David and Alfred Smart Museum at the University of Chicago from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Max Koss, Samuel H. Kress Foundation Provenance Research Fellow, David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art and University of Chicago When the National Gallery of Art opened its doors in March 1941, the ...
ListenPicasso and the Concept of the Masterpiece from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
January 2013 - Arthur C. Danto, Jonathan Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Columbia University, and art critic, The Nation. In this lecture recorded on September 19, 1993, at the National Gallery o...
ListenRenaissance to Revolution: French Drawings at the National Gallery of Art: Part 1, The 16th and 17th Centuries from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
September 2009, Behind the Scenes - Margaret Morgan Grasselli, curator, old master drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington. The National Gallery of Art's collection of French old master drawi...
ListenIntroduction to the Exhibition—The Life of Animals in Japanese Art from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Robert T. Singer, curator and head, department of Japanese art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art Artworks representing animals—real or imaginary, religious or secular—span the full breadth and sple...
ListenCelebrating a Milestone: 75 Years of the National Gallery of Art and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, II: The Kress Collection at the Seattle Art Museum from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Chiyo Ishikawa, Susan Brotman Deputy Director for Art and curator of European painting and sculpture, Seattle Art Museum. When the National Gallery of Art opened its doors in March 1941, the origin...
ListenLiving with the Dead in France: Nineteenth-Century Tomb Sculpture from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
December 2012 - Suzanne G. Lindsay, adjunct associate professor in the history of art, University of Pennsylvania Professor Suzanne G. Lindsay explores some of the most celebrated avant-garde sculp...
ListenGarden Caf? Espa?a y las Tradiciones Culinarias Espa?olas from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
September 2009, Behind the Scenes - Alvaro Soler del Campo, Director de la Real Armer?a en Madrid y Conservador jefe, Patrimonio Nacional y el Chef Jos? Andr?s, propietario del Jaleo y THINKfoodGRO...
ListenFrederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
David W. Blight, Class of 1954 Professor of American History and director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, Yale University, and the 2019 Pulitzer Pr...
ListenCelebrating a Milestone: 75 Years of the National Gallery of Art and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, I: A Platinum Jubilee: The Gallery and The Kress @ 75 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Max Marmor, president, Samuel H. Kress Foundation. When the National Gallery of Art opened its doors in March 1941, the original Andrew W. Mellon gift was augmented by a collection of Italian art d...
ListenPainting in Emilia from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
December 1, 2012 - Sydney J. Freedberg, chief curator, National Gallery of Art In honor of The Age of Correggio and the Carracci: Emilian Painting of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries exhibit...
ListenJudith Leyster, 1609?1660: Part 4, Music in the Paintings of Judith Leyster from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
August 2009, Behind the Scenes - Arthur K. Wheelock Jr., curator, northern baroque paintings, National Gallery of Art, Washington; Kenneth Slowik, artistic director, Smithsonian Chamber Music Socie...
ListenModel Citizens: Frances Benjamin Johnston at the Tuskegee Institute from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Anjuli J. Lebowitz, exhibition research associate, department of photographs, National Gallery of Art In 1902 Booker T. Washington commissioned photographer Frances Benjamin Johnston to record stud...
ListenPower and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World Symposium VII: Hellenistic Invention: Theory and Practice from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Richard Mason, lecturer on classical archaeology and art and history of museums, University of Maryland, Baltimore County. The exhibition Power and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World...
ListenTony Smith at 100 Symposium: The Tony Smith Experience and Q and A Session from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
December 2012 - The Tony Smith Experience, Harry Cooper, curator and head, department of modern art, National Gallery of Art; Q and A Session, featuring Kiki Smith. Tony Smith was an architect-turn...
ListenGarden Caf? Espa?a and the Culinary Traditions of Spain from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
August 2009, Behind the Scenes - Alvaro Soler del Campo, director, Royal Armory Madrid, and chief curator, Patrimonio Nacional; Jos? Andr?s, chef and owner, Jaleo and THINKfoodGROUP. Inspired by tw...
ListenWashington Color School: Kenneth Victor Young from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Sarah Battle, program administrator, department of academic programs, National Gallery of Art By the early 1970s, Washington, DC-based artists like Sam Gilliam, Thomas Downing, and Alma Thomas were...
ListenUnflattening: Revolutionizing Thought in Comics from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Nick Sousanis, comics artist, educator, and postdoctoral fellow in comics studies, University of Calgary. Unflattening began as an experiment in making an argument through images and as a challenge...
ListenTony Smith at 100 Symposium: Tony Smith: X Marks the Spot from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
December 2012 - Tony Smith: X Marks the Spot, Charles Ray, artist. Tony Smith was an architect-turned-sculptor who defied stylistic categories. His objects, at once imposing and playful, left a la...
ListenAn Antiquity of Imagination: Tullio Lombardo and Venetian High Renaissance Sculpture from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
August 2009, Backstory - Alison Luchs, curator of early European sculpture, National Gallery of Art, Washington Cool marble comes to life in the mesmerizing portraits of lovers, saints, and heroes ...
ListenMastering Tradition: An Artist Awakening through Practicing the Past from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Bruce I. Campbell, artist and copyist at the National Gallery of Art, in conversation with Alexandra Libby, assistant curator, department of northern baroque painting, National Gallery of Art. Bruc...
ListenPower and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World Symposium, VI: Uses and Abuses of the Luxury Arts: Tryphe in the Hellenistic World from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Kenneth Lapatin, associate curator of antiquities, The J. Paul Getty Museum The exhibition Power and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World, on view at the National Gallery of Art from D...
ListenTony Smith at 100 Symposium: Introductory Remarks and "Dream of the Proper Context": Tony Smith, the Abstract Expressionists' Architect from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Decemberr 2012 - Introductory Remarks, Faya Causey, head of academic programs, National Gallery of Art and Kiki Smith, artist; "Dream of the Proper Context": Tony Smith, the Abstract Expressionists...
ListenThe Art of Power: Royal Armor and Portraits from Imperial Spain from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
August 2009, Backstory - David Brown, curator of Italian and Spanish paintings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, and Alvaro Soler del Campo, director of the Royal Armory Madrid and chief curato...
ListenJohn Wilmerding Symposium on American Art 2019, Artists and American Communities: Part 11 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Devin Allen, artist and 2017 fellow, The Gordon Parks Foundation; Eric Gottesman, artist and co-founder, For Freedoms, and assistant professor of art, Purchase College, State University of New York...
ListenBronze, Bells, Bust: The National Gallery of Art’s Charles V from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Wendy Sepponen, Joseph F. McCrindle Fellow, department of sculpture and decorative arts, National Gallery of Art. Recent technical examinations have revealed that a bronze bust of Holy Roman Empero...
ListenCollecting for Quality: The Kaufman Collection of American Furniture, 1725-1825 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
December 2012 - Wendy A. Cooper, director, The DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum, Colonial Williamsburg. In honor of the exhibition opening for American Furniture from the Kaufman Collection on...
ListenLuis Melendez: Master of the Spanish Still Life, Part 2: Mel?ndez's Working Method from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
July 2009, Backstory - Gretchen Hirschauer, associate curator, Italian and Spanish paintings, and Catherine Metzger, senior conservator of paintings, National Gallery of Art, Washington. Delights o...
ListenJohn Wilmerding Symposium on American Art 2019, Artists and American Communities: Part 10 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Maséqua Myers, executive director, South Side Community Art Center. The South Side Community Art Center (SSCAC) is the last of 110 community art centers started by the Works Progress Administration...
ListenBlack Diaspora Art in Our Global Contemporary Moment: Some Reflections from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Kobena Mercer, professor, history of art and African American studies, Yale University. Kobena Mercer’s art criticism has illuminated the aesthetic innovations of African American, Black British, a...
ListenThe Sydney J. Freedberg Lecture on Italian Art: Lodovico Carracci: Observations on a Faulted Genius from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
December 2012 - Sydney J. Freedberg, Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Fine Arts, and acting director, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University. At the time of the exhibition Prints and Related Drawin...
ListenLuis Mel?ndez: Master of the Spanish Still Life, Part 1: The Artist from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
July 2009, Backstory - Gretchen Hirschauer, associate curator, Italian and Spanish paintings, National Gallery of Art, Washington. Delights of the Spanish table are exquisitely depicted by Luis Mel...
ListenJohn Wilmerding Symposium on American Art 2019, Artists and American Communities: Part 9 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Rick Lowe, artist, founder, Project Row Houses, and clinical professor of art, University of Houston. In its 25-year history, Project Row Houses has grown from 22 houses on a block and a half in Ho...
ListenPower and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World Symposium, VIII: Writing, Reading, and Thinking in Alexandria from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
David Sider, professor of classics, New York University. The exhibition Power and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World, on view at the National Gallery of Art from December 13, 2015, t...
ListenThe Lion in Great Age: Titian's Last Painting from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
December 2012 - Sydney J. Freedberg, Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Fine Arts emeritus, Harvard University, and chief curator, National Gallery of Art. In honor of the exhibition Titian: The F...
ListenThe Beffi Triptych: Preserving Abruzzo's Cultural Heritage from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
July 2009, Backstory - David Alan Brown, curator, Italian and Spanish paintings, National Gallery of Art, Washington. In April 2009, a violent earthquake shook the region of Abruzzo in Italy. The U...
ListenJohn Wilmerding Symposium on American Art 2019, Artists and American Communities: Part 8 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Eric Gottesman, artist and cofounder, For Freedoms, and assistant professor of art, Purchase College, State University of New York. Eric Gottesman photographs, writes, makes videos, and teaches, us...
ListenElsa Mora: Timeline from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Elsa Mora, artist, and Magda González-Mora, curator of Elsa Mora: Timeline, and in conversation with Michelle Bird, curatorial assistant, department of French paintings, National Gallery of Art. El...
ListenGeorge Bellows Symposium: The Late Work of George Bellows and the Question of Modernity from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
December 2012 - Mark A. White, Eugene B. Adkins Curator and Chief Curator, Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma. When George Bellows died at the age of forty-two in 1925, he was hai...
ListenJudith Leyster, 1609?1660: Part 3, Music in Leyster's Work from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
June 2009, Backstory - Arthur K. Wheelock Jr., curator of northern baroque painting, National Gallery of Art, Washington, and Frima Fox Hofrichter, professor of the history of art and design, Pratt...
ListenJohn Wilmerding Symposium on American Art 2019, Artists and American Communities: Part 7 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Devin Allen, artist and 2017 fellow, The Gordon Parks Foundation. In April 2015, widespread protests in Baltimore, Maryland—locally termed the Baltimore Uprising—erupted after an African American m...
ListenPower and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World Symposium V: Material Matters: Why Bronze? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Carol Mattusch, Mathy Professor of Art History Emerita, George Mason University. The exhibition Power and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World, on view at the National Gallery of Art f...
ListenThe Collecting of African American Art IX: Collecting Black: An Anachronism from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
November 2012 - Darryl Atwell, collector, and Jeffreen M. Hayes, Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Fellow in African American Art, Birmingham Museum of Art. Darryl Atwell, a collector based in Washington...
ListenJudith Leyster, 1609?1660: Part 2, Leyster's Technique from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
June 2009, Backstory - Arthur K. Wheelock Jr., curator of northern baroque painting, National Gallery of Art, Washington, and Frima Fox Hofrichter, professor of the history of art and design, Pratt...
ListenJohn Wilmerding Symposium on American Art 2019, Artists and American Communities: Part 6 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Melanee C. Harvey, assistant professor, department of art, Howard University; Kellie Jones, professor, department of art history and archaeology, and faculty fellow, Institute for Research in Afric...
ListenGerman Spaces, Haacke’s Places: Hans Haacke’s Germania at the 1993 Venice Biennale from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Paul Jaskot, Andrew W. Mellon Professor, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art. What do we learn when we explore Hans Haacke’s spatial choices for his site-specific ...
ListenGeorge Bellows Symposium: The Ashcan Goes to War: Bellows, Belligerence, and the Rape of Belgium from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
November 2012 - David Lubin, Charlotte C. Weber Professor of Art, Wake Forest University. When George Bellows died at the age of forty-two in 1925, he was hailed as one of the greatest artists Amer...
ListenJudith Leyster, 1609-1660: Part 1, An Introduction from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
June 2009, Backstory - Arthur K. Wheelock Jr., curator of northern baroque painting, National Gallery of Art, Washington, and Frima Fox Hofrichter, professor of the history of art and design, Pratt...
ListenJohn Wilmerding Symposium on American Art 2019, Artists and American Communities: Part 5 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Laura Wexler, professor of American studies, women’s, gender, and sexuality studies, and film and media studies, affiliate faculty in ethnicity, race, and migration, cochair, Women’s Faculty Forum,...
ListenThe National Gallery of Art at 75: Andrew W. Mellon, David Finley, Paul Mellon from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
David A. Doheny, former general counsel, National Trust for Historic Preservation, and author, David Finley: Quiet Force for America's Arts. In honor of the 75th anniversary of the National Gallery...
ListenThe Sydney J. Freedberg Lecture on Italian Art "Not a painting, but a Vision!": Raphael's Sistine Madonna Turns Five Hundred from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
November 2012 - Andreas Henning, curator of Italian paintings, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden Hardly any other Italian Renaissance work is as well-known as Raphael's...
ListenStanley William Hayter: From Surrealism to Abstraction from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
June 2009, Backstory - Judith Brodie, curator and head of the department of modern prints and drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington. English artist Stanley William Hayter has been widely ce...
ListenJohn Wilmerding Symposium on American Art 2019, Artists and American Communities: Part 4 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Richard J. Powell, John Spencer Bassett Professor of Art and Art History, Duke University, and Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professor, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of ...
Listen"Molotov Man" in Context from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Susan Meiselas, artist. In 1990 the National Gallery of Art launched an initiative to acquire the finest examples of the art of photography and to mount photography exhibitions of the highest quali...
ListenGeorge Bellows Symposium: Sunday in the Park with George Bellows from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
November 2012 - David Park Curry, senior curator of decorative arts and American painting and sculpture, The Baltimore Museum of Art. When George Bellows died at the age of forty-two in 1925, he wa...
ListenJarom?r Funke and the Amateur Avant-Garde from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
June 2009, Backstory - Matthew Witkovsky, chair and curator, department of photography, the Art Institute of Chicago. Jarom?r Funke, a leading figure in Czech and Slovak photography between the wor...
ListenJohn Wilmerding Symposium on American Art 2019, Artists and American Communities: Part 3 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Kellie Jones, professor, department of art history and archaeology, and faculty fellow, Institute for Research in African American Studies (IRAAS), Columbia University. The African American women i...
ListenDiamonstein-Spielvogel Lecture Series: Leo Villareal from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Leo Villareal, artist, in conversation with Molly Donovan, associate curator, department of modern art, National Gallery of Art. Born in 1967 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Leo Villareal began experim...
ListenGeorge Bellows Symposium: "The infant terrible of painting": Bellows by the River from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
November 2012 - Carol Troyen, Kristin and Roger Servison Curator Emerita of American Paintings, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. When George Bellows died at the age of forty-two in 1925, he was hailed ...
ListenThe Role of Art and Architecture in Civic Buildings from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
June 2009, Notable Lecture - Panelists: Stephen G. Breyer, Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States; Paul Goldberger, architecture critic for The New Yorker and Joseph Urban Professor ...
ListenJohn Wilmerding Symposium on American Art 2019, Artists and American Communities: Part 2 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Melanee C. Harvey, assistant professor, department of art, Howard University. In a talk focusing on photographic examples of black church iconography from the 1920s through the 1940s, Melanee Harve...
ListenThe Sixty-Fifth A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: The Thief Who Stole My Heart: The Material Life of Chola Bronzes from South India, c. 855–1280, Part 6: Worship in Uncertain Times: The Secret Burial of Bronzes in 1310 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Vidya Dehejia, Barbara Stoler Miller Professor of Indian Art, Columbia University. In this six-part lecture series entitled The Thief Who Stole My Heart: The Material Life of Chola Bronzes from Sou...
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November 2012 - Sydney J. Freedberg, Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Fine Arts, Harvard University In this lecture recorded on May 16, 1976, at the National Gallery of Art, Sydney J. Freedberg ...
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May 2009 - T. J. Clark, George C. and Helen N. Pardee Chair and professor of history of art, University of California, Berkeley. Centered on a group of paintings by Picasso from the 1920s, a series...
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Robin Coste Lewis, Poet Laureate of Los Angeles and writer-in-residence, University of Southern California. In her National Book Award–winning debut collection, Voyage of the Sable Venus, poet Robi...
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Vidya Dehejia, Barbara Stoler Miller Professor of Indian Art, Columbia University. In this six-part lecture series entitled The Thief Who Stole My Heart: The Material Life of Chola Bronzes from Sou...
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November 2012 - Gregory Jecmen, associate curator of old master prints and drawings, National Gallery of Art With a storied past and a strong imperial presence, Augsburg enjoyed a golden age in the...
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May 2009 - T. J. Clark, George C. and Helen N. Pardee Chair and professor of history of art, University of California, Berkeley. Centered on a group of paintings by Picasso from the 1920s, a series...
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I. M. Pei, architect of the National Gallery of Art East Building, describes his involvement with the building project and its early planning stages, including a trip with National Gallery of Art d...
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Frank Gehry, architect, in conversation with Paul Goldberger, architecture critic and author, Building Art: The Life and Work of Frank Gehry. Moderated by Harry Cooper, curator and head, department...
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November 2012 - David C. Ward, historian and deputy editor of the Charles Willson Peale Family Papers, National Portrait Gallery. When George Bellows died at the age of forty-two in 1925, he was ha...
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April 2009 - T. J. Clark, George C. and Helen N. Pardee Chair and professor of history of art, University of California, Berkeley. Centered on a group of paintings by Picasso from the 1920s, a seri...
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Robert Echols, independent scholar, and Frederick Ilchman, chair of the art of Europe department and Mrs. Russell W. Baker Curator of Paintings, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston In celebration of the 50...
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Vidya Dehejia, Barbara Stoler Miller Professor of Indian Art, Columbia University. In this six-part lecture series entitled The Thief Who Stole My Heart: The Material Life of Chola Bronzes from Sou...
ListenTriumphs in Craftsmanship: Masterpieces of American Furniture from the Kaufman Collection, 1700-1830 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
November 2012 - Wendy A. Cooper, Lois F. and Henry S. McNeil Senior Curator of Furniture, Winterthur Museum, University of Delaware. Curator Wendy A. Cooper celebrated the landmark installation of ...
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April 2009 - T. J. Clark, George C. and Helen N. Pardee Chair and professor of history of art, University of California, Berkeley. Centered on a group of paintings by Picasso from the 1920s, a seri...
ListenReflections on the Collection: The Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professors at the National Gallery of Art: Nancy J. Troy on Piet Mondrian, Tableau No. IV: Lozenge Composition with Red, Gray, Blue, Yellow, and Black (c. 1924/1925) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Nancy J. Troy (Victoria and Roger Sant Professor in Art at Stanford University and former Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professor at the National Gallery of Art) discusses Piet Mondrian’s painting Table...
ListenPower and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World Symposium III: Identity, Continuity, and Change in the Hellenistic Cityscape from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Christopher A. Gregg, term assistant professor of art history, George Mason University, and professor in charge, University of Georgia Classics Study Abroad in Rome. The exhibition Power and Pathos...
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November 2012 - Joel Shapiro, artist On October 28, 2012 at the National Gallery of Art, Joel Shapiro presents a lecture on his nearly 50-year career as part of the Diamonstein-Spielvogel Lecture S...
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April 2009 - T. J. Clark, George C. and Helen N. Pardee Chair and professor of history of art, University of California, Berkeley. Centered on a group of paintings by Picasso from the 1920s, a seri...
ListenThe 68th A. W. Mellon Lectures: End as Beginning: Chinese Art and Dynastic Time, Part 6 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Wu Hung, Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor of Art History, University of Chicago. In the six-part lecture series End as Beginning: Chinese Art and Dynastic Time, Wu Hung explo...
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Vidya Dehejia, Barbara Stoler Miller Professor of Indian Art, Columbia University. In this six-part lecture series entitled The Thief Who Stole My Heart: The Material Life of Chola Bronzes from Sou...
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October 2012 - Harry Cooper, curator and head, department of modern and contemporary art, National Gallery of Art. Harry Cooper, the Gallery's consulting curator for Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospecti...
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April 2009 - T. J. Clark, George C. and Helen N. Pardee Chair and professor of history of art, University of California, Berkeley. Centered on a group of paintings by Picasso from the 1920s, a seri...
ListenBlack Dreams at Sea: The Sardine Fisherman’s Funeral and An Opera of the World from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Elizabeth Alexander, poet, essayist, playwright, scholar, and president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and Manthia Diawara, writer, cultural theorist, film director, scholar, and professor of ...
ListenFrom Olympus to the Streets of Constantinople: The Byzantine Retirement of the Ancient Gods from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Anthony Kaldellis, professor of classics, Ohio State University. On view from December 13, 2015, through March 20, 2016, the exhibition Power and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World f...
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October 2012 - Faya Causey, head of academic programs, National Gallery of Art. Amber, a tree resin that has metamorphosed over millions of years into a hard, transparent polymer, has captivated ma...
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April 2009, Notable Lectures - Photographer Robert Frank and Sarah Greenough, senior curator and head of the department of photographs, National Gallery of Art. Looking In: Robert Frank's "The Amer...
ListenThe 68th A. W. Mellon Lectures: End as Beginning: Chinese Art and Dynastic Time, Part 5 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Wu Hung, Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor of Art History, University of Chicago. In the six-part lecture series End as Beginning: Chinese Art and Dynastic Time, Wu Hung explo...
ListenPower and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World Symposium, II: Muscle into Bronze: Athletics, Athletes, and Athletic Victor Statues in the Hellenistic Aegean from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Andrew Stewart, professor of ancient Mediterranean art and archaeology and Nicholas C. Petris Professor of Greek Studies, University of California, Berkeley, and curator of Mediterranean archaeolog...
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October 2012 - Sean Wilentz, George Henry Davis 1886 Professor of American History, Princeton University. When George Bellows died at the age of forty-two in 1925, he was hailed as one of the great...
ListenPride of Place, Part 3: Daily Life from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
March 2009, Art Talk - Arthur K. Wheelock Jr., curator of northern baroque paintings, National Gallery of Art. The Dutch took enormous pride in their cities, which experienced unprecedented prosper...
ListenHip-Hop’s Great Day: Gordon Parks and a Legacy of Photographic Inspiration from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Harry Allen, “The Media Assassin” and journalist; Nelson George, filmmaker; Adrian Loving; artist and educator; Miles Marshall Lewis, author of There’s a Riot Goin’ On; Vikki Tobak, author of Conta...
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In this six-part lecture series entitled The Thief Who Stole My Heart: The Material Life of Chola Bronzes from South India, c. 855–1280, art historian Vidya Dehejia discusses the work of artists of...
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October 2012 - Rebecca Zurier, associate professor of the history of art, University of Michigan. When George Bellows died at the age of forty-two in 1925, he was hailed as one of the greatest arti...
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March 2009, Art Talk - Arthur K. Wheelock Jr., curator of northern baroque paintings, National Gallery of Art. The Dutch took enormous pride in their cities, which experienced unprecedented prosper...
ListenThe 68th A. W. Mellon Lectures: End as Beginning: Chinese Art and Dynastic Time, Part 4 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Wu Hung, Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor of Art History, University of Chicago. In the six-part lecture series End as Beginning: Chinese Art and Dynastic Time, Wu Hung explo...
ListenPower and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World Symposium, I: "Living Statues": Ancient and Modern Viewers of Hellenistic Sculpture from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Gianfranco Adornato, professor of classical archaeology, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa. The exhibition Power and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World, on view at the National Gallery ...
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October 2012 - Alan Shestack, deputy director and chief curator; Philip Conisbee, senior curator of European paintings; John O. Hand, curator of Northern Renaissance paintings, Kimberly Jones, assi...
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March 2009, Art Talk - Arthur K. Wheelock Jr., curator of northern baroque paintings, National Gallery of Art The Dutch took enormous pride in their cities, which experienced unprecedented prosperi...
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Michael Callahan, electronics innovator, co-founder of USCO, and president, Museum Technology Source Inc.; in conversation with Gerd Stern, poet, media artist, co-founder of USCO, and president, In...
ListenWomen in Hellenistic and Roman Athens: Visualizing Female Power and Wealth from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Anna Vasiliki Karapanagiotou, director, Ephorate of Antiquities of Arcadia, Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports. To honor closing day of the exhibition Power and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the...
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October 2012 - Harry Cooper, curator and head, department of modern and contemporary art, National Gallery of Art. Prior to the exhibition opening of In the Tower: Barnett Newman on June 10, 2012, ...
ListenThe Collecting of African American Art VI: The Art of Collecting from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
March 2009, Notable Lectures - Harmon and Harriet Kelley, collectors, and Deborah Willis, professor, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. Since 1987 Harmon and Harriet Kelley have amassed...
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Kwame Alexander, poet, educator, host and producer of the literary variety/talk show Bookish, cofounding director of the LEAP for Ghana initiative, and founding editor of VERSIFY, an imprint of HMH...
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Vidya Dehejia, Barbara Stoler Miller Professor of Indian Art, Columbia University. In this six-part lecture series entitled The Thief Who Stole My Heart: The Material Life of Chola Bronzes from Sou...
ListenThe Serial Portrait: Photography and Identity in the Last One Hundred Years from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
October 2012 - Sarah Kennel, associate curator, department of photographs, National Gallery of Art, and Ksenya Gurshtein, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow, National Gallery of Art. T...
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February 2009, Notable Lecture - Ruth Fine, curator of special projects in modern art, National Gallery of Art, and Juliet Bethea, collector. In this event recorded on February 15, 2009, as part of...
ListenWatching Thinking: Self-Reflection and the Study of Process in Drawing from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Charles Ritchie, artist and associate curator, department of modern prints and drawings, National Gallery of Art As an artist who has worked behind the scenes with the prints and drawings collectio...
ListenZeus, Isis, and Dionysos in Dion at the Foot of Mount Olympus from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Dimitrios Pandermalis, president of the board of directors, Acropolis Museum, and professor of archaeology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. On view from December 13, 2015, through March 20, 2...
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September 2012 - Judith Brodie, curator and head, department of modern prints and drawings, National Gallery of Art. In 1909 F. T. Marinetti's futurist manifesto appeared on the front page of Le Fi...
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February 2009, Art Talk -Paul G. Sanderson III, filmmaker and Gregory C. Schwarz, chief of interpretation, Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site. The monumental plaster model for one of the greatest...
ListenDiamonstein-Spielvogel Lecture Series: Alex Katz from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Alex Katz, artist, in conversation with Harry Cooper, senior curator and head of modern art, National Gallery of Art. Alex Katz was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1927 and educated at Cooper Union....
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Alexandre Arrechea, artist, in conversation with Michelle Bird, curatorial assistant, department of French paintings, National Gallery of Art. Alexandre Arrechea (b. Trinidad, Cuba, 1970) graduated...
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September 2012 - Wendy A. Cooper, Lois D. and Henry S. McNeil Senior Curator of Furniture, Winterthur Museum, University of Delaware. In honor of the 50th anniversary of the Winterthur Museum, Gard...
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February 2009, Art Talk - Sarah Greenough, senior curator and head of the department of photographs, National Gallery of Art, and Philippe S?clier, filmmaker. Fifty years after the publication of T...
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Wu Hung, Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor of Art History, University of Chicago. In the six-part lecture series End as Beginning: Chinese Art and Dynastic Time, Wu Hung explo...
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Alison Luchs, curator of early European sculpture, National Gallery of Art; Eike Schmidt, director, The Uffizi Gallery, Florence; Dylan Smith, Robert H. Smith Research Conservator, National Gallery...
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September 2012 - Mary Morton, curator and head of the department of French paintings, National Gallery of Art. Revisiting the theme of the exhibition The Spectacular Art of Jean-Léon Gérôme, on vie...
ListenTransforming Destiny into Awareness: Robert Frank's "The Americans" from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
February 2009, Notable Lectures - Sarah Greenough, senior curator and head of the department of photographs, National Gallery of Art. Looking In: Robert Frank's "The Americans," an exhibition organ...
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Panel discussion with Madeline Caviness, Mary Richardson Professor Emeritus and professor emerita of the history of art, Tufts University; and Ellen Shortell, professor of the history of art, Massa...
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Cecily Brown, artist, in conversation with Harry Cooper, curator and head, department of modern art, National Gallery of Art. Born in London in 1969, Cecily Brown attended the Slade School of Fine ...
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September 2012 - Ellen G. Miles, curator of painting and sculpture, National Portrait Gallery. Gilbert Stuart (1755–1828) was the most successful portraitist of early America. Known for his renderi...
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January 2009, Backstory - Harry Cooper, curator, modern and contemporary art, National Gallery of Art For more than five decades Guston explored ways to paint, from the mural art of the Depression ...
ListenRachel Whiteread Symposium, Part 4: Remarks and Discussion from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Helen Molesworth, writer, scholar, and curator Artist Rachel Whiteread has made casts and drawings for more than 30 years in an effort to define the space between positives and negatives, public an...
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Ruth Fine, curator (1972-2012), National Gallery of Art, and curator and catalog editor, Procession: The Art of Norman Lewis, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia. Procession: The Ar...
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September 2012 - Jenny Lin, pianist, and Roger Reynolds, University Professor, University of California, San Diego. For this multimedia creation conceived for the National Gallery of Art on the occ...
ListenThe Man Who Made Vermeers: Unvarnishing the Legend of Master Forger Han van Meegeren from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
January 2009, Notable Lectures - Jonathan Lopez, writer and historian. Lopez, author of The Man Who Made Vermeers: Unvarnishing the Legend of Master Forger Han van Meegeren, tracks down primary sou...
ListenRachel Whiteread Symposium, Part 3: A Conversation with Lynne Cooke and Cristina Iglesias from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Lynne Cooke, senior curator, special projects in modern art, National Gallery of Art, and Cristina Iglesias, artist Artist Rachel Whiteread has made casts and drawings for more than 30 years in an ...
ListenWhat Makes a Statue? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Carol Mattusch, Mathy Professor of Art History, George Mason University. On view from December 13, 2015, through March 20, 2016, the exhibition Power and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic...
ListenSigns of the Artist: Signatures and Self-Expression in American Paintings from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
September 2012 - John Wilmerding, Christopher Binyon Sarofim '86 Professor of American Art in the Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University, and visiting curator, department of Americ...
ListenFirst Lady Jacqueline Kennedy and the 1963 Exhibition of the "Mona Lisa" from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
January 2009, Notable Lectures - Margaret Leslie Davis, author. In her book Mona Lisa in Camelot: How Jacqueline Kennedy and da Vinci's Masterpiece Charmed and Captivated a Nation, Davis weaves tog...
ListenRachel Whiteread Symposium, Part 2: Three Halcyon Arts Lab Fellows Respond from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Kelli Rae Adams, Tariq O’Meally, and Ada Pinkston, artists Artist Rachel Whiteread has made casts and drawings for more than 30 years in an effort to define the space between positives and negative...
ListenUnabridged and Incomplete: Series and Sequences in Contemporary Art from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Susan Tallman, adjunct associate professor of art history, theory, and criticism, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and editor in chief, Art in Print. For centuries, Western artists strove to...
ListenJoan Miró Symposium: L'Oeuvre de guerre of Miró: Constellation Series, Série Barcelona, and Ceramics, 1940–1945 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
September 2012 - Jaume Reus, art historian and curator . Catalan painter Joan Miró (1893–1983), celebrated as one of the greatest modern artists, combined abstract art with surrealist fantasy to cr...
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December 2008, Notable Lectures - Robert Kolker, professor, Film Studies and Digital Media, School of Literature, Communication, and Culture, Georgia Institute of Technology, and James Naremore, ...
ListenRachel Whiteread Symposium, Part 1—Rachel Whiteread: Weathering, Patina, Time from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Mari Lending, professor in architectural theory and history, department of form, theory, and history, Oslo School of Architecture and Design, and founding member, Oslo Centre for Critical Architect...
ListenBronzes from the Aegean: The Lost Cargos and the Circumstances of Their Recovery from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
George Koutsouflakis, director, department of archaeological sites, monuments and research, Hellenic Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities. The exhibition Power and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the Hel...
ListenJoan Miró Symposium: Miró's Studios: Reflecting His Roots, His References, and His Memories from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
August 2012 - Maria Luisa Lax, curator and head of collections, Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró a Mallorca. Catalan painter Joan Miró (1893–1983), celebrated as one of the greatest modern artists, combi...
ListenTime, Space, and the Progress of History in the Medieval Map from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
December 2008, Notable Lectures - Conrad Rudolph, professor of medieval art history, University of California at Riverside. Rudolph demonstrates how medieval maps informed their users not only of w...
ListenThe Sixty-Eighth A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: End as Beginning: Chinese Art and Dynastic Time, Part 2: Reconfiguring the World: The First Emperor’s Art Projects from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Wu Hung, Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor of Art History, University of Chicago. In the six-part lecture series End as Beginning: Chinese Art and Dynastic Time, Wu Hung explo...
ListenThe Artist as Weatherman: Hans Haacke's Critical Meteorology from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
John A. Tyson, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow, National Gallery of Art. Hans Haacke (b. 1936, Cologne) is one of the leading figures of conceptual art and one of the most important...
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August 2012 - Nancy Yeide, head of the department of curatorial records and files, National Gallery of Art, and the Ailsa Mellon Bruce Curatorial Sabbatical Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the...
ListenConversations with Authors: Calvin Tomkins from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
December 2008, Notable Lectures - Calvin Tomkins, author and staff writer, New Yorker, and Harry Cooper, curator of modern and contemporary art, National Gallery of Art. In his latest book Lives of...
ListenThe Sixty-Eighth A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: End as Beginning: Chinese Art and Dynastic Time, Part 1: The Emergence of Dynastic Time in Chinese Art from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Wu Hung, Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor of Art History, University of Chicago. In the six-part lecture series End as Beginning: Chinese Art and Dynastic Time, Wu Hung explo...
ListenIntroduction to the Exhibition — Power and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Jens M. Daehner and Kenneth S. Lapatin, associate curators of antiquities, The J. Paul Getty Museum. To celebrate the opening of Power and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World on Decem...
ListenJoan Miró Symposium: "The Farm": Primitivism and Transfiguration from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
August 2012 - Maria-Josep Balsach, professor of contemporary art, University of Girona, Catalonia, Spain. Catalan painter Joan Miró (1893–1983), celebrated as one of the greatest modern artists, co...
ListenThe Sydney J. Freedberg Lecture on Italian Art 2008: To Live with Myths in Pompeii and Beyond from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
December 2008, Notable Lectures - Paul Zanker, professor of art history, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa. In this podcast, recorded on November 9, 2008, as part of the Sydney J. Freedberg Lecture on...
ListenThe Art of Light: A Conversation with Charles Ross and James Meyer from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Charles Ross, artist, and James Meyer, curator of art, 1945–1974, National Gallery of Art Using sunlight and starlight as the inspiration for and source of his art, Charles Ross creates large-scale...
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Leo G. Mazow, associate professor of art history, University of Arkansas, and guitarist, The Coverlets; Brittany Stephenson, singer, The Coverlets. American artist Thomas Hart Benton (1889–1975) us...
ListenExotic Beasts and Politics: The Menageries of Josephine Bonaparte, Lorenzo de' Medici, and Rudolph II from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
August 2012 - Marina Belozerskaya, independent scholar Exotic animals have been sought and collected by rulers for millennia, going back to Egyptian pharaohs and Mesopotamian kings. But how they ha...
ListenLet's Talk: A Conversation with Peter Schjeldahl from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
December 2008, Notable Lectures - Peter Schjeldahl, senior art critic, New Yorker. In his book Let's See: Writings on Art from the "New Yorker," Schjeldahl covers large-scale exhibitions and privat...
ListenPop without Pretense: Mass Media and the Art of James Castle from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Diana Greenwald, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow, departments of American and British paintings and American and modern prints and drawings, National Gallery of Art. Self-taught art...
ListenRajiv Vaidya Memorial Lecture: New York's Cinema 16 Film Society: Programming for a Divided World from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Scott MacDonald, visiting professor of art history, Hamilton College. From the fall of 1947 until the spring of 1963, New York City was invigorated by Cinema 16, the most successful and influential...
ListenJoan Miró Symposium: Perspective, Position, and Politics: Joan Miró from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
August 2012 - Charles Palermo, Alumni Memorial Term Distinguished Associate Professor of Art History, The College of William and Mary. Catalan painter Joan Miró (1893–1983), celebrated as one of th...
ListenJan Lievens, Part 3: Return to the Netherlands (1644?1674) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
November 2008, Backstory - Arthur Wheelock, curator of northern baroque painting, National Gallery of Art. Jan Lievens was a child prodigy, whose later career was marked by important civic and priv...
ListenBoutet de Monvel’s Jeanne d’Arc: The Corcoran Commission and Installation from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Mary Morton, Curator of French Paintings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Mary Morton discusses the provenance of the Jeanne d’Arc series, commissioned by William Clark and given to the Co...
ListenRajiv Vaidya Memorial Lecture: Germany in the 1920s: Expanding the Film Avant-Garde beyond the Political Divide from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Thomas Elsaesser, senior fellow, International College of Cultural Technologies and Media Theory, Weimar, Germany. In this Rajiv Vaidya Memorial Lecture recorded on December 2, 2012, cultural histo...
ListenJoan Miró Symposium: Carob Link: A Promenade with Miró from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
August 2012 - Benet Rossell, artist. Catalan painter Joan Miró (1893–1983), celebrated as one of the greatest modern artists, combined abstract art with surrealist fantasy to create his lithographs...
ListenJan Lievens, Part 2: London and Antwerp (1632?1644) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
November 2008, Backstory - Arthur Wheelock, curator of northern baroque painting, National Gallery of Art. Jan Lievens was a child prodigy, whose later career was marked by important civic and priv...
ListenBoutet de Monvel’s Jeanne d’Arc: The Passion for All Things Post-Medieval: A Multimedia Perspective from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Elizabeth Emery, Professor of Modern Languages and Literature, Montclair State University Elizabeth Emery explores the French engagement with the medieval period in the years 1870–1914. She examine...
ListenThe Sydney J. Freedberg Lecture on Italian Art: Canova and Color from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
David Bindman, emeritus professor of the history of art, University College London. Antonio Canova’s (1757-1822) sculptures, as they have come down to us, are notable for their pure use of marble. ...
ListenRings: Five Passions in World Art,"A Preview of the Olympic Exhibition from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
August 2012 - J. Carter Brown, director emeritus, National Gallery of Art To commemorate the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, the 100th anniversary of the modern Olympic Games, J. Carter Brown (1934-2002), f...
ListenJan Lievens, Part 1: The Leiden Years (1620�1632) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
November 2008, Backstory - Arthur Wheelock, curator of northern baroque painting, National Gallery of Art. Jan Lievens was a child prodigy, whose later career was marked by important civic and priv...
ListenBoutet de Monvel’s Jeanne d’Arc: The Role of the Bibliophile in the French Medieval Aesthetic from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Willa Z. Silverman, Malvin E. and Lea P. Bank Professor of French and Jewish Studies at Penn State University and Head of the Department of French and Francophone Studies, Penn State University An ...
ListenRajiv Vaidya Memorial Lecture: Time Frames: Andy Warhol's Film and Video from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
John G. Hanhardt, senior curator for media arts, Nam June Paik Media Arts Center, Smithsonian American Art Museum. Andy Warhol created a large and distinctive body of work in both film and video. I...
ListenIntroduction to a Painting: Edouard Manet's The Railway from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
July 2012 - Liz Tunick, Kress Interpretive Fellow, National Gallery of Art; Mary Morton, curator and head of the department of French paintings, National Gallery of Art; Kimberly Jones, associate c...
ListenPompeii and the Roman Villa, Part 5: Rediscovery and Reinvention from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
November 2008, Backstory - Carol Mattusch, guest curator and professor, George Mason University. In the second century BC, Roman aristocrats began to build lavish seaside villas on the picturesque ...
ListenBoutet de Monvel’s Jeanne d’Arc: From Print to Paint from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Nora Heimann, Associate Professor of Art History and Chair of the Department of Art at the Catholic University of America Louis-Maurice Boutet de Monvel (1850–1913) explored the subject of Joan of ...
ListenArtists and Mentorship: David C. Driskell in Conversation with Ellington Robinson from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
David C. Driskell, artist, curator, and Distinguished University Professor of Art, Emeritus, University of Maryland at College Park; Ellington Robinson, artist, professorial lecturer of painting at...
ListenCelebrating the Reopening of the Nineteenth-Century French Galleries Symposium: Reinstalling the Nineteenth-Century European Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
July 2012 - Gary Tinterow, director, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Following a two-year renovation, the galleries devoted to impressionism and post-impressionism in the West Building of the Nationa...
ListenPompeii and the Roman Villa, Part 4: The Greek Legacy from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
October 2008, Backstory - Carol Mattusch, guest curator and professor, George Mason University. In the second century BC, Roman aristocrats began to build lavish seaside villas on the picturesque B...
ListenPainting and Representation from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Tim Doud, artist; professor, department of art, American University; cofounder, ‘sindikit; and cofounder, STABLE; in conversation with artists Jonathan Lyndon Chase and Louis Fratino. Jonathan Lynd...
ListenAbstraction and Its Capacities from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
David Getsy, Goldabelle McComb Finn Distinguished Professor of Art History and chair, department of art history, theory, and criticism, School of the Art Institute of Chicago. To celebrate the publ...
ListenIntroduction to the Exhibition: Edo: Art in Japan, 1615-1868 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
May 2012 - Robert T. Singer, curator of Japanese art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The exhibition Edo: Art in Japan, 1615–1868—on view from November 15, 1998, to February 15, 1999, at the Nati...
ListenPompeii and the Roman Villa, Part 3: Triclinium of Moregine from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
October 2008, Backstory - Carol Mattusch, guest curator and professor, George Mason University. In the second century BC, Roman aristocrats began to build lavish seaside villas on the picturesque B...
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linn meyers, artist and co-founder, STABLE, in conversation with Jonathan Frederick Walz, director of curatorial affairs and curator of American art, The Columbus Museum. Artist linn meyers creates...
ListenAmerican Experiments in Narrative, 2000–2015: Don Perry from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Don Perry, producer. Thomas Allen Harris’s 2014 documentary film Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People investigates black portrait photographers and artists who h...
ListenCelebrating the Reopening of the Nineteenth-Century French Galleries Symposium: Rethinking Nineteenth-Century Art History in France: The Musée d'Orsay Renovated from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
July 2012 - Xavier Rey, curator of paintings, Musée d'Orsay. Following a two-year renovation, the galleries devoted to impressionism and post-impressionism in the West Building of the National Gall...
ListenPompeii and the Roman Villa, Part 2: Courtyards and Gardens from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
October 2008, Backstory - Carol Mattusch, guest curator and professor, George Mason University. In the second century BC, Roman aristocrats began to build lavish seaside villas on the picturesque B...
ListenFour Centuries of American Chairs from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Oscar Fitzgerald, adjunct professor of decorative arts and design history, Corcoran School of Art and Design, George Washington University. Chairs reflect the change of styles over time better than...
ListenIntroduction to the Exhibition — The Serial Impulse at Gemini G.E.L. from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Adam Greenhalgh, exhibition curator and lead author on the team producing the catalogue raisonné Mark Rothko: The Works on Paper, National Gallery of Art. For centuries artists have made multipart ...
ListenCelebrating the Reopening of the Nineteenth-Century French Galleries Symposium: The Nineteenth Century According to Albert Barnes from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
July 2012 - Martha Lucy, associate curator, The Barnes Foundation. Following a two-year renovation, the galleries devoted to impressionism and post-impressionism in the West Building of the Nationa...
ListenPompeii and the Roman Villa, Part 1: Patrons at Home from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
October 2008, Backstory - Carol Mattusch, guest curator and professor, George Mason University. In the second century BC, Roman aristocrats began to build lavish seaside villas on the picturesque B...
ListenArnold Newman Lecture Series on Photography: Dawoud Bey from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Dawoud Bey, artist Dawoud Bey, born in 1953, has portrayed Americans from marginalized groups with remarkable sensitivity and complexity throughout his 40-year career. When he was eleven, Bey was s...
ListenBehind the Scenes of "The Serial Impulse": Conserving Works of Art on Paper from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Michelle Facini, paper conservator, National Gallery of Art. The Serial Impulse at Gemini G.E.L. showcases 17 serial projects created over the past five decades by many prominent artists in collabo...
ListenIntroduction to the Exhibition—"Elegance and Refinement: The Still-Life Paintings of Willem van Aelst" from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
July 2012 - Arthur K. Wheelock Jr., curator of northern baroque paintings, National Gallery of Art, and Melanie Gifford, research conservator, National Gallery of Art. Few artists were more skilled...
ListenGeorge de Forest Brush, Part 2: Tradition and Modernity from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
September 2008, Backstory - Nancy Anderson, curator of American and British paintings, National Gallery of Art. George de Forest Brush (1854/1855?1941) combined extraordinary technical skills acqui...
ListenThe Christmas Story in Art from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
David Gariff, senior lecturer, National Gallery of Art. This holiday presentation explores the biblical episodes surrounding the birth of Christ as depicted in masterworks from the Gallery’s perman...
ListenTalking Shop with Sidney Felsen: Fifty Years of Artists at Gemini G.E.L from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Sidney B. Felsen, cofounder and codirector, Gemini G.E.L., in conversation with Lauren Schell Dickens, curatorial consultant, department of modern prints and drawings, National Gallery of Art, and ...
ListenCaravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
July 2012 - Andrew Graham-Dixon, art critic. For 400 years Caravaggio's staggering artistic achievements have thrilled viewers, yet his volatile personal trajectory—the murder of Ranuccio Tommasson...
ListenGeorge de Forest Brush, Part 1: The Advent of the Indian Paintings from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
September 2008, Backstory - Nancy Anderson, curator of American and British paintings, National Gallery of Art. George de Forest Brush (1854/1855?1941) combined extraordinary technical skills acqui...
ListenCataloging the Corcoran Collection: Highlights in the Department of Photographs from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Emily Ann Francisco, curatorial assistant, department of modern art, and former collection management assistant, department of photographs, National Gallery of Art. Nearly 2,600 photographs from th...
ListenCaillebotte/Durand-Ruel: Making Impressionism from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Mary Morton, curator and head, department of French paintings, National Gallery of Art; Joseph J. Rishel, The Gisela and Dennis Alter Senior Curator of European Painting before 1900 and Senior Cura...
ListenIntroduction to the Exhibition—"George Bellows": An Unfinished Life from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
June 2012 - Charles Brock, associate curator, department of American and British paintings, National Gallery of Art Curator Charles Brock discusses the National Gallery of Art's landmark exhibition...
ListenMartin Puryear, Part 2: Defining the Object from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
September 2008, Art Talk - Ruth Fine, curator of special projects in modern art, National Gallery of Art, and John Elderfield, exhibition curator and chief curator emeritus of painting and sculptur...
ListenThe Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professors at the National Gallery of Art: Victor I. Stoichita from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Victor Stoichita (Université de Fribourg and former Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professor at the National Gallery of Art) discusses Murillo’s Two Women at a Window in terms of the artist’s preoccupati...
ListenGods and Goddesses Behaving Badly: The Art of Joachim Wtewael from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Arthur K. Wheelock Jr., curator of northern baroque paintings, National Gallery of Art. In this lecture recorded on September 20, 2015, to honor the exhibition Pleasure and Piety: The Art of Joachi...
ListenGiovanni Benedetto Castiglione: Genius in Context from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
June 2012 - Jonathan Bober, curator and head of the department of old master prints, National Gallery of Art The genius of Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (1609–1664) is characterized by his thoroug...
ListenMartin Puryear, Part 1: Evolution of an Exhibition from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
September 2008, Art Talk - Ruth Fine, curator of special projects in modern art, National Gallery of Art, and John Elderfield, exhibition curator and chief curator emeritus of painting and sculptur...
ListenJohn Edmonds from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
John Edmonds, artist, in conversation with Jessica Bell Brown, PhD candidate, department of art and archaeology, Princeton University. In his photographs of African Americans, John Edmonds challeng...
ListenArchive of Lamentations from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Deborah Luster, artist. In 1990, the National Gallery of Art launched an initiative to acquire the finest examples of the art of photography and to mount photography exhibitions of the highest qual...
ListenSamuel F. B. Morse's "Gallery of the Louvre" in Focus Symposium: The Forest of the Old Masters: The Chiaroscuro of American Places from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
June 2012 - Alexander Nemerov, Vincent Scully Professor of the History of Art, Yale University. Scholars from around the world gathered at the National Gallery of Art to discuss Samuel F. B. Morse'...
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August 2008, ArtTalk- Photographer Richard Misrach and Sarah Greenough, senior curator of photographs, National Gallery of Art. Employing an aerial perspective, Richard Misrach instilled his monume...
ListenCataloging the Corcoran Collection: The Story of American Print Publishing from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Mason McClew, prints and drawings cataloger for the Corcoran Collection, department of American and modern prints and drawings. Traditionally, print publishers in the United States have been relega...
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Jennifer Reeves, featured artist. Filmmaker Jennifer Reeves visited the National Gallery of Art on May 30, 2015, to introduce her film The Time We Killed (2004), a feature-length, experimental narr...
ListenSamuel F. B. Morse's "Gallery of the Louvre" in Focus Symposium: Painting and Technology: Samuel F. B. Morse and the Visual Transmission of Intelligence from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
June 2012 - Richard Read, Winthrop Professor, School of Architecture, Landscape and Visual Arts, The University of Western Australia. Scholars from around the world gathered at the National Gallery...
ListenRichard Misrach, Part 2: Color and Scale from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
August 2008, Art Talk - Photographer Richard Misrach and Sarah Greenough, senior curator of photographs, National Gallery of Art.Employing an aerial perspective, Richard Misrach instilled his monum...
ListenIntroduction to the Exhibition—Gordon Parks: The New Tide, Early Work 1940–1950 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Philip Brookman, consulting curator, department of photographs, National Gallery of Art. During the 1940s American photographer Gordon Parks (1912–2006) grew from a self-taught photographer making ...
ListenDiamonstein-Spielvogel Lecture Series: Carrie Mae Weems from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Carrie Mae Weems, artist. For more than 30 years Carrie Mae Weems has made provocative, socially motivated art that examines issues of race, gender, and class inequality. Often producing serial or ...
ListenSamuel F. B. Morse's "Gallery of the Louvre" in Focus Symposium: The Tradition of Paintings-within-Paintings from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
June 2012 - Catherine Roach, assistant professor, department of art history, Virginia Commonwealth University. Scholars from around the world gathered at the National Gallery of Art to discuss Samu...
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August 2008, Art Talk - Photographer Richard Misrach and Sarah Greenough, senior curator of photographs, National Gallery of Art. Employing an aerial perspective, Richard Misrach instilled his monu...
ListenPresent Tense: Corot, Photography, and the Body from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
David Ogawa, associate professor of art history, Union College. Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot is best known as the great master of landscape painting in the 19th century who bridged the French neocla...
ListenArt Is For the Spirit: Recent Prints and Sculpture at Gemini G.E.L. from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Charles Ritchie, assistant curator, department of modern prints and drawings, National Gallery of Art. Established in 1966, Gemini G.E.L. is an artists' workshop and publisher of limited edition pr...
ListenSamuel F. B. Morse's "Gallery of the Louvre" in Focus Symposium: "Gallery of the Louvre" and the Electric Telegraph from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
June 2012 - Jean-Philippe Antoine, professor, department of visual arts, Université Paris 8. Scholars from around the world gathered at the National Gallery of Art to discuss Samuel F. B. Morse's n...
ListenAfghan Treasures: Rescuing Tillya Tepe's Gold, Part 4 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
August 2008, Backstory - Fredrik Hiebert, National Geographic Archaeology Fellow and exhibition curator. In the last of this four-part podcast Fredrik Hiebert, exhibition curator and National Geogr...
ListenPicturing Alexander Hamilton from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Heidi Applegate, guest lecturer. Coinciding with the Kennedy Center’s production of the Broadway musical Hamilton, guest lecturer Heidi Applegate surveys works of art featuring Alexander Hamilton i...
ListenCézanne and Antiquity from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Faya Causey, head of academic programs, National Gallery of Art. Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) was perhaps more knowledgeable about the ancient world—its art, history, languages, and literature—than any...
ListenSamuel F. B. Morse's "Gallery of the Louvre" in Focus Symposium: Samuel F. B. Morse's "Gallery of the Louvre" as a Religious Painting from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
June 2012 - David Bjelajac, professor of art and American studies, The George Washington University. Scholars from around the world gathered at the National Gallery of Art to discuss Samuel F. B. M...
ListenAfghan Treasures: The Silk Road Revealed at Begram, Part 3 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
July 2008, Backstory - Fredrik Hiebert, National Geographic Archaeology Fellow and exhibition curator. In the third of this four-part podcast Fredrik Hiebert, exhibition curator and National Geogra...
ListenReflections on the Collection: The Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professors at the National Gallery of Art: Carel van Tuyll van Serooskerken on Annibale and Agostino Carracci, River Landscapes (c. 1590/1595) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Carel van Tuyll van Serooskerken (Teylers Museum, Haarlem, The Netherlands, and former Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professor at the National Gallery of Art) brings viewers inside the “rustic paradise”...
ListenEntrevista sobre Venecia 1548: Tiziano contemplando “El milagro del esclavo” de Tintoreto from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Miguel Falomir, jefe del Departamento de Pintura Italiana y Francesa del Museo del Prado, y Félix Monguilot Benzal, guía de la Galería Borghese de Roma y becario Kress Interpretive (2012-2013) en l...
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June 2012 - Olivier Meslay, associate director of curatorial affairs, Dallas Museum of Art. Scholars from around the world gathered at the National Gallery of Art to discuss Samuel F. B. Morse's ne...
ListenAfghan Treasures: In Search of "Lady Moon"-A? Khanum, Part 2 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
June 2008, Backstory - Fredrik Hiebert, National Geographic Archaeology Fellow and exhibition curator. In the second of this four-part podcast Fredrik Hiebert, exhibition curator and National Geog...
ListenThe Sydney J. Freedberg Lecture on Italian Art: Against Titian from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Stephen J. Campbell, Henry and Elizabeth Wiesenfeld Professor of Art History, Johns Hopkins University. In this lecture, presented on November 4, 2018, Stephen J. Campbell addresses the conflicted ...
ListenElectric Schlock: Duchenne de Boulogne’s Photographic Theater from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Sarah Kennel, associate curator, department of photography, National Gallery of Art. In this lecture, delivered on June 29, 2015 as part of the Works in Progress series, Sarah Kennel explores one o...
ListenSamuel F. B. Morse's "Gallery of the Louvre" in Focus Symposium: Samuel Morse's Louvre in Context from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
June 2012 - Nancy Anderson, curator and head of the department of American and British paintings, National Gallery of Art, Andrew McClellan, professor and dean of academic affairs for arts and scie...
ListenAfghan Treasures: The Bactrian Hoard and Tepe Fullol, Part 1 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
June 2008, Backstory - Fredrik Hiebert, National Geographic Archaeology Fellow and exhibition curator. Afghanistan was in ancient times the heart of the Silk Road, linking cultures from Asia to th...
ListenForty Years of Exhibitions: A Baker’s Dozen Memorable Shows from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Eric Denker, senior lecturer, National Gallery of Art. I. M. Pei’s majestic East Building opened in June of 1978 with the express purpose of providing space for both the National Gallery’s rapidly ...
ListenNew Discoveries about "Young Girl Reading" by Jean-Honoré Fragonard from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
John Delaney, senior imaging scientist, scientific research department, National Gallery of Art; Yuriko Jackall, assistant curator, department of French paintings, National Gallery of Art; and Mich...
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June 2012 - Peter J. Brownlee, associate curator, Terra Foundation for American Art. Scholars from around the world gathered at the National Gallery of Art to discuss Samuel F. B. Morse's newly con...
ListenThe Vogel Collection Story: Part 3, The Fifty Works for Fifty States Project from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
May 2008, Art Talk - Ruth Fine, curator of special projects in modern art, National Gallery of Art, and collectors Dorothy and Herbert Vogel. Dorothy and Herbert Vogel have amassed one of the great...
ListenThe Longest Running Show: Small French Paintings from the Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Eric Denker, senior lecturer, National Gallery of Art. Ailsa Mellon Bruce was the only daughter of Andrew Mellon, the founder of the National Gallery of Art, and a patron of the Gallery since 1941....
ListenIntroduction to the Exhibition—Gustave Caillebotte: The Painter's Eye from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Mary Morton, curator and head of the department of French paintings, National Gallery of Art. Gustave Caillebotte (1848–1894) was among the most critically noted impressionist artists during the he...
ListenSamuel F. B. Morse's "Gallery of the Louvre" in Focus Symposium: Thoughts on the Conservation Treatment of Morse's "Gallery of the Louvre from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
June 2012 - Franklin Kelly, chief curator and deputy director, National Gallery of Art, Lance Mayer and Gay Myers, independent conservators. Scholars from around the world gathered at the National ...
ListenThe Vogel Collection Story: Part 2, Working with the National Gallery of Art from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
May 2008, Art Talk - Ruth Fine, curator of special projects in modern art, National Gallery of Art, and collectors Dorothy and Herbert Vogel. Dorothy and Herbert Vogel have amassed one of the great...
ListenIntroduction to the Exhibition: The Chiaroscuro Woodcut in Renaissance Italy from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Naoko Takahatake, associate curator of prints and drawings, Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Chiaroscuro woodcuts simulate three-dimensional form through their successive impression of relief-cut ...
ListenA Closer Look at Metalpoint Drawing from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Kimberly Schenck, Head of Paper Conservation, National Gallery of Art. This first comprehensive exhibition to examine the history of metalpoint—the art of drawing with a metal stylus on a specially...
ListenArchitecture and Art: Creating Community from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
June 2012 - David Adjaye, principal architect, Adjaye Associates; Elizabeth Diller, principal architect, Diller Scofidio + Renfro; Tom Finkelpearl, executive director, Queens Museum of Art; Sarah L...
ListenThe Vogel Collection Story: Part 1, Meeting and Collecting from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
April 2008, Art Talk - Ruth Fine, curator of special projects in modern art, National Gallery of Art, and collectors Dorothy and Herbert Vogel. Dorothy and Herbert Vogel have amassed one of the gre...
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Caitlin Teal Price, artist and cofounder, STABLE, in conversation with John Pilson, photographer, video artist, and senior critic and acting director of graduate studies for fall 2018, Yale Univers...
ListenReading from "Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs" by Sally Mann from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Sally Mann, artist. In this presentation recorded on June 21, 2015, at the National Gallery of Art, acclaimed photographer Sally Mann reads from her revealing memoir and family history Hold Still: ...
ListenIntroduction to the Exhibition—Miró: Two Views from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
June 2012 - Harry Cooper, curator and head of modern and contemporary art, National Gallery of Art, and Matthew Gale, head of displays, Tate Modern. Celebrated as one of the greatest modern artists...
ListenTools of the Trade from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
April 2008, Backstory - Neal Turtell, executive librarian, National Gallery of Art. Artists in the 19th and early 20th century had access to more up-to-date information about art technique and tech...
ListenModern Sculpture in the National Gallery from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
David Gariff, senior lecturer, National Gallery of Art. The East Building of the National Gallery of Art houses an impressive collection of modern sculptures displayed throughout its many levels. H...
ListenNew Discoveries about "A Pastoral Visit" by Richard Norris Brooke (National Gallery of Art, Corcoran Collection) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Sarah Cash, consulting curator, department of American and British paintings, National Gallery of Art, and former Bechhoefer Curator of American Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art. Richard Norris Brooke ...
ListenIntroduction to the Exhibition: Sculpture of Angkor and Ancient Cambodia: Millennium of Glory from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
May 2012 - Helen I. Jessup, guest curator of Sculpture of Angkor and Ancient Cambodia: Millennium of Glory. To celebrate the opening of Sculpture of Angkor and Ancient Cambodia: Millennium of Glory...
ListenThe Paper Tiger: Calotypes in Great Britain, Part 2 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
March 2008, Art Talk - Sarah Greenough, senior curator of photographs, National Gallery of Art, and Roger Taylor, professor of photographic history at De Montfort University, Leicester. Two methods...
ListenMinimalism from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
David Gariff, senior lecturer, National Gallery of Art. Referred to variously as “ABC art” or “primary structures,” minimalism displays the reductive aspects of earlier modernist trends that embrac...
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Mark Ruwedel, artist and professor of photography, California State University, Long Beach; and Sarah Greenough, senior curator and head, department of photographs, National Gallery of Art. In 1990...
ListenIt? Jakuch?'s Colorful Realm: Juxtaposition, Naturalism, and Ritual from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
May 2012 - Yukio Lippit, professor of Japanese art, Harvard University. Exhibition curator Yukio Lippit discusses one of Japan's most renowned cultural treasures, the 30-scroll set of bird-and-flow...
ListenThe Paper Tiger: Calotypes in Great Britain, Part 1 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
March 2008, Art Talk - Sarah Greenough, senior curator of photographs, National Gallery of Art, and Roger Taylor, professor of photographic history at De Montfort University, Leicester. Two methods...
ListenReflecting on Collecting: Recent Acquisitions of Modern Art from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Harry Cooper, senior curator and head of modern art, National Gallery of Art. It is often said that the National Gallery of Art is a collection of collections. All its acquisitions of art are the r...
ListenMaking Redlands: A Novel in Words and Pictures from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Philip Brookman, consulting curator, department of photographs, National Gallery of Art, and former senior curator of photography and media arts, Corcoran Gallery of Art. In this presentation recor...
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March 2008, Backstory - Maygene Daniels, chief of Gallery Archives. From its inception, the design of the West Building of the National Gallery of Art was inspired by Italian tradition in art and a...
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Vera Lutter, artist, and Sarah Greenough, senior curator and head, department of photographs, National Gallery of Art. In 1990 the National Gallery of Art launched an initiative to acquire the fine...
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May 2012 - Martin J. Powers, Sally Michelson Davidson Professor of Chinese Arts and Cultures and former director, Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan. At the beginning of the 20th ce...
ListenThe Magic of Fontainebleau from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
March 2008, Backstory - Kimberly Jones, associate curator of French paintings, National Gallery of Art. At one time it was a royal hunting ground for kings and emperors, but in the 19th century, th...
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David Gariff, senior lecturer, National Gallery of Art. By the end of the 1950s abstract expressionism had begun to wane. Color-field or hard-edge painters, depending on their approach, adopted the...
ListenIntroduction to the Exhibition—Drawing in Silver and Gold: Leonardo to Jasper Johns from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
John Hand, curator of northern Renaissance paintings, National Gallery of Art; Kimberly Schenck, head of paper conservation, National Gallery of Art; and Stacey Sell, associate curator of old maste...
ListenArt on the Mall: The National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
April 2012 - Marla Prather, curator and head of the department of 20th-century art, National Gallery of Art. On May 23, 1999, First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton accepted the completed National Galle...
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February 2008, Art Talk - Guests: Charles Ritchie, associate curator of modern prints and drawings, National Gallery of Art, and Mary Lynn Kotz, Rauschenberg biographer. Robert Rauschenberg has con...
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Robert P. Kolker, emeritus professor, department of English, University of Maryland, and adjunct professor of media studies, University of Virginia. Stanley Kubrick’s films have occasionally been c...
ListenBuilding a Collection: Photography at the National Gallery of Art from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Sarah Greenough, senior curator and head, department of photographs, National Gallery of Art. In 1990 the National Gallery of Art launched an initiative to acquire the finest examples of the art of...
ListenDavid Finley, Andrew Mellon, and the Founding of the National Gallery from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
April 2012 - David A. Doheny, lawyer and former general counsel of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. In this podcast recorded on June 17, 2006, David A. Doheny presents a lecture in con...
ListenRobert Rauschenberg, Part 3: Family Matters from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
February 2008, Art Talk - Guests: Charles Ritchie, associate curator of modern prints and drawings, National Gallery of Art, and Mary Lynn Kotz, Rauschenberg biographer. Robert Rauschenberg has con...
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Molly Donovan, curator of art, 1975–present, department of modern art, National Gallery of Art Rachel Whiteread, the first comprehensive survey of this British sculptor’s 30-year career, features d...
ListenFAPE 2015: The Role of Art in Diplomacy: Cultural Citizens from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Panelists include Theaster Gates, artist, and director of arts and public life, resident artist, and lecturer, department of visual arts, University of Chicago; Yo-Yo Ma, cellist; and Darren Walker...
ListenGarden of Illusions: The National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
April 2012 - Molly Donovan, assistant curator of modern and contemporary art, National Gallery of Art. A month after the dedication of the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden on May 23, 1999, ...
ListenRobert Rauschenberg, Part 2: The Personal and the Global from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
February 2008, Art Talk - Guests: Charles Ritchie, associate curator of modern prints and drawings, National Gallery of Art, and Mary Lynn Kotz, Rauschenberg biographer. Robert Rauschenberg has con...
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Mary Morton, curator and head, department of French paintings, National Gallery of Art. Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot is best known as the great master of landscape painting in the 19th century who b...
ListenThe Sixty-Fourth A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: Restoration as Event and Idea: Art in Europe, 1814?1820, Part 6: Redemption in Rome and Paris, 1818–1820: Ingres Revives the Chivalric while Géricault Recovers the Dispossessed from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Thomas Crow, Rosalie Solow Professor of Modern Art, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. In this six-part lecture series entitled Restoration as Event and Idea: Art in Europe, 1814?1820, Ar...
ListenThe Collecting of African American Art I: Introduction from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
April 2012 - Alvia J. Wardlaw, associate professor, Texas Southern University and curator of modern and contemporary art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. For the inaugural lecture of the National Gal...
ListenRobert Rauschenberg, Part 1: Printmaking, Collaboration, and Language from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
February 2008, Art Talk - Guests: Charles Ritchie, associate curator of modern prints and drawings, National Gallery of Art, and Mary Lynn Kotz, Rauschenberg biographer. Robert Rauschenberg has con...
ListenPost-World War II European Art from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
David Gariff, senior lecturer, National Gallery of Art. In the years following the Second World War Europe was exhausted and slow to recover. Historians often speak about a shift in the art world's...
ListenTwo Approaches to Making a New Music out of the Traditions of Jazz from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
A conversation between two leading performer-practitioners of new musical genres arising out of the improvisatory history of jazz: Mark Dresser, composer and contrabassist; and Tyshawn Sorey, compo...
ListenSide by Side: Cimabue and Giotto at Pisa from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
April 2012 - Julian Gardner, Samuel H. Kress Professor, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art. In this lecture recorded on February 5, 2012, at the National Gallery ...
ListenGoing Dutch, Part 2: Exploring Paintings from the Netherlands from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
February 2008, Backstory - Guest: Arthur K. Wheelock Jr., curator of northern baroque paintings, National Gallery of Art. Why do so many people love Dutch paintings? Whether it is the stunning lan...
ListenAbstract Expressionism from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
David Gariff, senior lecturer, National Gallery of Art, August 14, 2018. From the mid-1940s through the 1950s painters in New York imbued their work with a heady new confidence, scale, and energy. ...
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Rodolfo Peraza, artist, and Michelle Bird, curatorial assistant, department of French paintings, National Gallery of Art. Born in 1980, a year closely associated with the birth of "new Cuban art," ...
ListenSpeech on the Dedication of the East Building of the National Gallery from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
April 2012 - James Earl Carter Jr., 39th President of the United States of America. In 1971, on a triangular lot once occupied by tennis courts, architect I. M. Pei broke ground on the East Buildin...
ListenBronze and Boxwood: Sculpting the Robert H. Smith Collection from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
January 2008, Art Talk - Guest: Nicholas Penny, senior curator of sculpture and decorative arts, National Gallery of Art, and Dylan Smith, Robert H. Smith Research Conservator, National Gallery of ...
ListenCézanne Portraits in Context from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
David Gariff, senior lecturer, National Gallery of Art. Paul Cézanne sought to systematize the spontaneity of impressionism and to find an analytical way of seeing the world. His paintings express ...
ListenThe Sixty-Fourth A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: Restoration as Event and Idea, Part 5: from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Thomas Crow, Rosalie Solow Professor of Modern Art, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. In this six-part lecture series entitled Restoration as Event and Idea: Art in Europe, 1814?1820, Ar...
ListenSpeech on the Dedication of the National Gallery of Art: Franklin D. Roosevelt from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd president of the United States of America. The National Gallery of Art was created on March 17, 1937, by a joint resolution of Congress accepting the gift of financier a...
ListenGoing Dutch, Part 1: Exploring Paintings from the Netherlands from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
January 2008, Backstory - Guest: Arthur K. Wheelock Jr., curator of northern baroque paintings, National Gallery of Art. Why do so many people love Dutch paintings? Whether it is the stunning lands...
ListenAbstraction and Purity from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
David Gariff, senior lecturer, National Gallery of Art. The most daring development in early 20th-century modern art was the step into abstraction—the decision to make paintings that were not pictu...
ListenPersonal Vision and the Education of Young Composers in America from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
A conversation between an outstanding young composer and one of America's leading mentors of young composers: Michelle Lou, graduate of University of California, San Diego, and Stanford University;...
ListenVilhelm Hammershøi and His Contemporaries from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
March 2012 - Kasper Monrad, chief curator, National Gallery of Denmark. Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864–1916) was the most outstanding Danish painter of the late 19th century. Best known for his paintings...
ListenWhy Medals Matter: The Story of the Renaissance Medal from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
January 2008, Backstory - Guest: Eleonora Luciano, associate curator of sculpture, National Gallery of Art. Medals, like those given out at the Olympics, are typically associated with feats of athl...
ListenIngmar Bergman and the Visual Arts from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
David Gariff, senior lecturer, National Gallery of Art. The films of Ingmar Bergman (1918–2007) display a broad formal range and expressionistic style. The director's devotion to theater and music ...
ListenIn My Mind from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Gary Hawkins, writer and director of In My Mind and instructor of screenwriting and non-fiction filmmaking, Duke University; Emily LaDue, producer of In My Mind; and Jason Moran, artistic director ...
ListenElson Lecture: Kerry James Marshall: The Importance of Being Figurative from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
March 2012 - Kerry James Marshall, artist. Kerry James Marshall is a master of the human figure. His imposing, radiant paintings and installations draw equally upon African American history and the...
ListenThe Baroque Woodcut: Carving a Niche from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
December 2007, Backstory - Guest: Peter Parshall, curator and head of old master prints, National Gallery of Art. Centuries before photography was invented, artists used woodcuts to reproduce their...
ListenDada and Surrealism from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
David Gariff, senior lecturer, National Gallery of Art. Just as the years before World War I witnessed the birth of abstraction, the war itself brought Dada, equally international movement, but dar...
ListenThe Sixty-Fourth A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: Restoration as Event and Idea: Art in Europe, 1814?1820, Part 4: The Religion of Ancient Art from London to Paris to Rome, 1815–1819: Canova and Lawrence Replenish Papal Splendor from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Thomas Crow, Rosalie Solow Professor of Modern Art, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. In this six-part lecture series entitled Restoration as Event and Idea: Art in Europe, 1814?1820, Ar...
ListenAbout Four Honest Outlaws from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
March 2012 - Michael Fried, J. R. Herbert Boone Professor of Humanities and the History of Art, Johns Hopkins University In his new book, Four Honest Outlaws, Professor Michael Fried considers the ...
ListenOpening the Covers of the Rare Book Collection from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
December 2007, Backstory - Guest: Neal Turtell, executive librarian, National Gallery of Art. Most people think that rare books are stashed away in the corners of museums, untouched and collecting ...
ListenGerman and Austrian Expressionism from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
David Gariff, senior lecturer, National Gallery of Art. At the turn of the 20th century Germany and Austria were full of volatile contradictions. They were modernizing rapidly yet maintained deeply...
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Jessica Stockholder, artist and Raymond W. and Martha Hilpert Gruner Distinguished Service Professor and chair of the department of visual arts, division of humanities, University of Chicago. Since...
ListenAndrew W. Mellon: Collecting for the Nation from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
March 2012 - David Cannadine, director and professor, Institute of Historical Research, University of London To celebrate the landmark publication Mellon: An American Life, David Cannadine inaugura...
ListenRauschenberg's Experiments in Printmaking from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
November 2007, Backstory - Guest: Charles Ritchie, associate curator of modern prints and drawings, National Gallery of Art, Host: Barbara Tempchin. Robert Rauschenberg has been at the forefront of...
ListenAvant-Garde to Underground: Outliers and Film from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Lynne Cooke, senior curator, special projects in modern art, National Gallery of Art, and James Benning, artist. On April 29, 2018, curator Lynne Cooke spoke with artist James Benning about his med...
ListenIntermedia Collaboration from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
A discussion of Intermedia work, in particular Roger Reynolds's FLiGHT Project and the video "operas" of the late Robert Ashley. Participants include Tom Hamilton, a collaborator of Ashley's, and R...
ListenMellon: A Life from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
March 2012 - David Cannadine, director and professor, Institute of Historical Research, University of London. David Cannadine launched the U.S. book tour for his landmark publication, Mellon: An Am...
ListenExploring Turner, Part 2: Invention from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
November 2007, Art Talk - Guest: Ian Warrell, curator of 18th- and 19th-century British art, Tate Britain, London, Host: Franklin Kelly, senior curator, National Gallery of Art. In this two-part p...
ListenMonet at Vétheuil from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Kimberly A. Jones, curator of 19th-century French paintings, National Gallery of Art. Two of Claude Monet’s paintings of the garden at his home in Vétheuil, France, have been reunited for the first...
ListenKadir López from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Kadir López, artist, and Michelle Bird, curatorial assistant, department of French paintings, National Gallery of Art. Kadir López Nieves was born in 1972 in the province of Las Tunas. His talent w...
ListenConversations with Artists: Joel Shapiro, Thoughts on the Organization of Form in Modern Sculpture from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
March 2012 - Joel Shapiro, artist. Following the installation of Joel Shapiro's Untitled (1989) in the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden with other major post–World War II sculptures, the ar...
ListenExploring Turner, Part 1: Process from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
November 2007, Art Talk - Guest: Ian Warrell, curator of 18th- and 19th-century British art, Tate Britain, London, Host: Franklin Kelly, senior curator, National Gallery of Art. In this two-part po...
ListenEarly Picasso and Cubism from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
David Gariff, senior lecturer, National Gallery of Art. After shattering representational tradition with cubism, which he developed with Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso became the artistic visionary ...
ListenPiero di Cosimo: A Renaissance Painter Comes to America from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Virginia Brilliant, The Ulla R. Searing Curator of Collections, The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida. The first major retrospective of paintings by the inventive Italian Ren...
ListenNineteenth-Century Redux: A New Look at a Great Collection of French Paintings from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
March 2012 - Mary Morton, curator and head of the department of French paintings, National Gallery of Art. Curator Mary Morton celebrates the reinstallation of the impressionist and post-impression...
ListenJ.M.W. Turner and America from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
November 2007, Backstory - Guest: Franklin Kelly, senior curator of American and British paintings, National Gallery of Art, Host: Barbara Tempchin. J. M. W. Turner's innovative paintings and water...
ListenHenri Matisse and Fauvism from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
David Gariff, senior lecturer, National Gallery of Art. At the 1905 Salon d’Automne, an annual exhibition in Paris dedicated to vanguard art, Henri Matisse showed Open Window, Collioure alongside w...
ListenThe Sixty-Fourth A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: Restoration as Event and Idea: Art in Europe, 1814?1820, Part 3: Cut Loose, 1815–1817: Napoleon Returns, David Crosses Borders, and Géricault Wanders Outcast Rome from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Thomas Crow, Rosalie Solow Professor of Modern Art, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. In this six-part lecture series entitled Restoration as Event and Idea: Art in Europe, 1814?1820, Ar...
ListenExhibiting Blackness: African Americans and the American Art Museum from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
March 2012 - Bridget R. Cooks, associate professor of art history and African American studies, University of California, Irvine. In this lecture, recorded at the National Gallery of Art on March 4...
ListenSnapshot Collecting from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
October 2007, Art Talk - Guest: Robert E. Jackson, collector Host: Sarah Greenough, senior curator of photographs, National Gallery of Art Robert E. Jackson has been collecting other people's snaps...
ListenAmerican Art, 1900–1950: Henri, Stieglitz and Their Circles from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
David Gariff, senior lecturer, National Gallery of Art. As a teacher at the New York School of Art in the early 20th century, Robert Henri urged his to reject genteel subjects in favor of gritty de...
ListenAuguste Rodin's Lifetime Bronze Sculpture in the Simpson Collection and the Role of Several Trusted Practitioners from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Daphne Barbour, senior conservator, department of object conservation, National Gallery of Art; Lisha Glinsman, conservation scientist, scientific research department, National Gallery of Art. The ...
ListenA Sense of Place—Norman Lewis in Harlem: "An Inquiry into the Laws of Nature" from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
February 2012 - Ruth Fine, curator of special projects in modern art, National Gallery of Art. In this podcast recorded on January 15, 2006, Ruth Fine discusses the Harlem-based life and career of ...
ListenThe Mystique of Edward Hopper from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
October 2007, Art Talk - Guest: Carol Troyen, curator emerita at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Edward Hopper's depictions of 20th-century America continue to engage and fascinate the public. Sho...
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David Gariff, senior lecturer, National Gallery of Art. Born in northern Italy, Amedeo Modigliani moved to Paris in 1906 at the age of 21 to immerse himself in the art of the day. His hero, Paul Cé...
ListenWhat's New with Piero di Cosimo? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Gretchen Hirschauer, associate curator of Italian and Spanish paintings, National Gallery of Art; and Elizabeth Walmsley, paintings conservator, National Gallery of Art. Piero di Cosimo: The Poetry...
ListenThe Collecting of African American Art VIII: Elliot Perry and Darrell Walker in Conversation with Michael Harris from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
February 2012 - Elliot Perry and Darrell Walker, collectors of African American art and art of the African diaspora and former players for the National Basketball Association, and Michael D. Harris...
ListenHoliday Stamps: Bernardino Luini's The Madonna of the Carnation from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
October 2007, Backstory - Guest: David Brown, curator of Italian paintings, National Gallery of Art. Since 1965 the National Gallery of Art and the United State Postal Service have collaborated to ...
ListenExtending Tradition: French Painting, 1890–1940 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
avid Gariff, senior lecturer, National Gallery of Art. In this lecture presented on July 10, 2018, at the National Gallery of Art, senior lecturer David Gariff explores works by a group of like-min...
ListenThe Sixty-Fourth A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: Restoration as Event and Idea: Art in Europe, 1814?1820, Part 2: At the Service of Kings, Madrid and Paris, 1814: Aging Goya and Upstart Géricault Face Their Restorations from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Thomas Crow, Rosalie Solow Professor of Modern Art, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. In this six-part lecture series entitled Restoration as Event and Idea: Art in Europe, 1814?1820, Ar...
ListenConversations with Artists-Compositions and Collaborations: The Arts of Lou Stovall from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
February 2012 - Lou Stovall, artist, in conversation with Ruth Fine, curator of special projects in modern art, National Gallery of Art. As part of the National Gallery of Art summer lecture series...
ListenAmateur Photography and the Decisive Moment from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
October 2007, Backstory - Guest: Sarah Greenough, senior curator of photographs, National Gallery of Art. Since the first Kodak camera was sold in 1888, American amateur photographers have taken b...
ListenGerman Expressionism and Degenerate Art from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
David Gariff, senior lecturer, National Gallery of Art. Germany around 1900 was a volatile contradiction—modernizing rapidly, yet deeply conservative in values. This was fertile ground for the birt...
ListenResisting Love, Embracing War in Representations of Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Peter M. Lukehart, associate dean, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art. The publication of Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata in 1581 occasioned a host of respo...
ListenConversations with Artists: David C. Driskell and Frank Stewart from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
February 2012 - David C. Driskell, artist, collector, and emeritus professor of art history, University of Maryland at College Park; in conversation with Ruth Fine, consulting curator of special pr...
ListenExploring Photography at the National Gallery of Art from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
September 2007, Art Talk - Guest: Sarah Greenough, curator and head of the department of photographs. National Gallery of Art The National Gallery of Art has presented memorable exhibitions of phot...
ListenAnne Charlotte Robertson: Selections from “Five Year Diary” from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Haden Guest, director and curator, Harvard Film Archive. American filmmaker Anne Charlotte Robertson (1949–2012) was a Boston-area Super 8 filmmaker who examined and shared her life through her wor...
ListenThe Sixty-Fourth A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: Restoration as Event and Idea: Art in Europe, 1814?1820: Moscow Burns / The Pope Comes Home, 1812?1814: David, Gros, and Ingres Test Empire's Facade, Part 1 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Thomas Crow, Rosalie Solow Professor of Modern Art, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. In this six-part lecture series entitled Restoration as Event and Idea: Art in Europe, 1814?1820, Ar...
ListenThe Collecting of African American Art VII: David C. Driskell in Conversation with Ruth Fine from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
February 2012 - David C. Driskell, artist, collector, and emeritus professor of art history, University of Maryland at College Park, and Ruth Fine, consulting curator of special projects in modern ...
ListenA Shakespearean Connection from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
September 2007, Conversations - Listen to engaging conversations between Gallery staff and top cultural figures. Guests: Michael Kahn, artistic director, Shakespeare Theatre Company, and Franklin K...
ListenMaruja Mallo’s “Sewers and Belfries” (c. 1929-1932) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Anna Wieck, curatorial research associate, department of photographs, National Gallery of Art. In this lecture delivered on May 7, 2018, as part of the Works in Progress series at the National Gall...
ListenOther Planes of There from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Renée Green, artist, filmmaker, writer, and the director of the MIT Program in Art, Culture, and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; in conversation with James Meyer, associate curat...
ListenRemembering and Forgetting: Imagery and Its Role in the Slave Trade and Its Abolition from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
February 2012 - James Walvin, professor of history, University of York, United Kingdom. To commemorate the bicentennial of the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade on March 25, 1807, Professor Jam...
ListenTelling the Edward Hopper Story from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
September 2007, Backstory - Guest: Carroll Moore, film and video producer, National Gallery of Art. The iconic paintings and artistic impact of Edward Hopper are the subject of a new documentary fi...
ListenCollecting for the Nation: The 75th Anniversary of the Lessing J. Rosenwald Gift from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Gregory Jecmen, associate curator of old master prints and drawings, National Gallery of Art. On March 17, 1943, the National Gallery of Art marked its second anniversary with the announcement of a...
ListenAnother Light: Thomas Demand's "Pacific Sun" from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Michael Fried, J. R. Herbert Boone Chair in the Humanities and professor of the history of art, John Hopkins University. To celebrate the publication of his latest book, Another Light: Jacques-Loui...
ListenPictures of Nothing: Abstract Art since Pollock, Part 6: Abstract Art Now from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
February 2012 - Kirk Varnedoe, Institute for Advanced Study. This six-part series examines abstract art over a period of fifty years, beginning with a crucial juncture in modern art in the mid-1950...
ListenHopper Meets Opera in Later the Same Evening from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
September 2007, Backstory - Guest: Leon Major, professor of music, University of Maryland. The world of music merges with the visual arts in Later the Same Evening: an opera inspired by five painti...
ListenWater, Wind, and Waves: Marine Paintings from the Dutch Golden Age from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Alexandra Libby, assistant curator, northern baroque paintings, National Gallery of Art. The Dutch rose to greatness from the riches of the sea. From their massive cargo- and warships to their smal...
ListenWhy Prints? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Dave H. and Reba White Williams, authors and collectors. Over more than four decades, Dave H. and Reba White Williams formed what is considered the largest and finest private collection of American...
ListenA Conversation with David C. Driskell from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
February 2012 - David C. Driskell, professor emeritus, University of Maryland at College Park; Ruth Fine, curator of special projects in modern art, National Gallery of Art; and Julie L. McGee, Roc...
ListenDesiderio da Settignano from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
August 2007, Art Talk - Guest: Nicholas Penny, senior curator of sculpture and decorative arts. The work of fifteenth-century sculptor Desiderio da Settignano inspired contemporaries to declare tha...
ListenFilm in the Sculptural Field from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Susan Felleman, professor of art history, film, and media studies, School of Visual Art and Design, University of South Carolina. Sculpture—especially figural sculpture—engages other bodies in mult...
ListenRenaissance Invention and the Haunted Infancy from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Al Acres, associate professor of art and art history, Georgetown University. Countless Renaissance images of Christ's infancy allude either to his sacrifice or to evil, and sometimes to both. Each ...
ListenWorks on Paper by African Americans: The Growth of the National Gallery of Art Collection from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
February 2012 - Ruth Fine, curator of special projects in modern art, National Gallery of Art. To coincide with the Martin Luther King Jr. federal holiday weekend, Ruth Fine describes the history a...
ListenModernity and Tradition: Film in Interwar Central Europe from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
August 2007, Conversations - Listen to engaging conversations between Gallery staff and top cultural figures. Guests: Margaret Parsons, head of the film programs and Sonja Simonyi, curator of the ...
ListenThe Description of the Sacred Mountain of La Verna from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Ginger Hammer, assistant curator, old master prints and drawings, National Gallery of Art Descrizione del Sacro Monte della Vernia is a rare and unusual illustrated volume about the Franciscan Sanc...
ListenLos Carpinteros from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Dagoberto Rodríguez, artist, and Michelle Bird, curatorial assistant, department of French paintings, National Gallery of Art. The Havana-based collective Los Carpinteros (The Carpenters) has creat...
ListenPictures of Nothing: Abstract Art since Pollock, Part 5: Satire, Irony, and Abstract Art from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
February 2012 - Kirk Varnedoe, Institute for Advanced Study. This six-part series examines abstract art over a period of fifty years, beginning with a crucial juncture in modern art in the mid-1950...
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August 2007, Backstory - Guest: Matthew S. Witkovsky, assistant curator of photographs. Against a background of tremendous social and political upheaval, photography scaled new heights in Austria, ...
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Jamie Gabbarelli, assistant curator of prints, drawings, and photographs, RISD Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design. Sharing Images: Renaissance Prints into Maiolica and Bronze, the first e...
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Daphne Barbour, senior conservator, department of object conservation, National Gallery of Art; Alison Luchs, curator of early European sculpture, National Gallery of Art; and Shelley Sturman, seni...
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January 2012 - Kirk Varnedoe, Institute for Advanced Study. This six-part series examines abstract art over a period of fifty years, beginning with a crucial juncture in modern art in the mid-1950s...
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August 2007, Backstory - Guest: Karen Serres, A.W. Mellon Curatorial Fellow. Going to a museum typically means looking at works of art inside picture frames. But have you ever taken the time to loo...
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Alexander Alberro, Virginia Bloedel Wright Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History.Barnard College/Columbia University, and James Meyer, curator of art, 1945–1974, National Gallery of Art ...
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Gretchen Hirschauer, associate curator of Italian and Spanish painting, National Gallery of Art; Dennis Geronimus, associate professor and chair of the department of art history, New York Universit...
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January 2012 - Kirk Varnedoe, Institute for Advanced Study. This six-part series examines abstract art over a period of fifty years, beginning with a crucial juncture in modern art in the mid-1950s...
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July 2007, Art Talk - Guest: Arthur K. Wheelock Jr., Curator of Northern Baroque Paintings. More than forty years after Rembrandt's painting Portrait of a Boy in Fancy Dress (c. 1655), or "Titus," ...
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Jeanine Michna-Bales and Clarissa Sligh, artists. For more than forty years, artist Sally Mann has made experimental, elegiac, and hauntingly beautiful photographs that are all bred of a place, the...
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Jill DeVonyar, independent curator and former ballet dancer, and Richard Kendall, curator at large, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown. Little Dancer Aged Fourteen (1878–1881),...
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January 2012 - Kirk Varnedoe, Institute for Advanced Study. This six-part series examines abstract art over a period of fifty years, beginning with a crucial juncture in modern art in the mid-1950s...
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July 2007, Conversations - Listen to engaging conversations between Gallery staff and top cultural figures. Guest: Robert Leibowits, collector. For years Robert and June Leibowits have been collect...
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John Elderfield, chief curator emeritus of painting and sculpture, Museum of Modern Art, New York, and Allen R. Adler, Class of 1967, Distinguished Curator and Lecturer, Princeton University Art Mu...
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Felix Monguilot Benzal, art historian; docent, education division, Borghese Gallery, Rome; and Kress Interpretive Fellow (2012–2013), National Gallery of Art. During opening week of the exhibition ...
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January 2012 - Kirk Varnedoe, Institute for Advanced Study. This six-part series examines abstract art over a period of fifty years, beginning with a crucial juncture in modern art in the mid-1950s...
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July 2007, Backstory - Guest: Maygene Daniels, Chief of Gallery Archives. Gallery archivist Maygene Daniels and Barbara Tempchin discuss Andrew Mellon's founding of the National Gallery of Art and...
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Mark Bradford, artist; Agnes Gund, philanthropist and collector; David Rubenstein, trustee, National Gallery of Art, and cofounder and co-executive chairman, The Carlyle Group; and Frank Stella, ar...
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Mary Morton, curator and head, department of French paintings, National Gallery of Art. A portrait of Joseph Roulin, the postman made famous by Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) in a series of portraits...
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January 2012 - Kimberly A. Jones, assistant curator of French paintings, National Gallery of Art. To celebrate the opening of Édouard Vuillard at the National Gallery of Art on January 19, 2003, co...
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July 2007, Backstory - Guest: Joe Krakora, Development and External Affairs Officer. The centenary of the birth of National Gallery of Art founder Paul Mellon provides the theme of this Backstory. ...
ListenThe East Building at Forty: Reflections from Curators Past and Present from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Panelists include E. A. Carmean Jr., a canon in the Episcopal Church and former curator and head of 20th-century art, National Gallery of Art (1974–1984); Jack Cowart, founding executive director, ...
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Maria Antonella Pelizzari, professor of art history, Hunter College, City University of New YorkMaria Antonella Pelizzari, professor of art history, Hunter College, City University of New York. Bri...
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January 2012 - Philip Conisbee, senior curator of European paintings, National Gallery of Art. The exhibition Cézanne in Provence—on view from January 29 to May 7, 2006, at the National Gallery of ...
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France Scully Osterman, artist, educator, and lecturer at Scully / Osterman Studio and guest scholar at the George Eastman Museum. Bringing together some 115 photographs from across four decades of...
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Zahid R. Chaudhary, associate professor of English and director of graduate studies, Princeton UniversityZahid R. Chaudhary, associate professor of English and director of graduate studies, Princet...
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December 2011 - Barbara von Barghahn, professor of art history, The George Washington University The Pastrana Tapestries are among the finest surviving Gothic tapestries in the world and are on vie...
ListenDiffering, Drawn: A Conversation with Lynne Cooke and Darby English from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Darby English, Carl Darling Buck Professor of Art History and the College, The University of Chicago, and consulting curator, department of painting and sculpture, Museum of Modern Art, New York; a...
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John Falconer, curator of photographs, India Office Collection, The British Library. British army officer Captain Linnaeus Tripe (1822–1902) occupies a special place in the history of 19th-century ...
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December 2011 - David Bindman, emeritus professor of the history of art, University College London; Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and director of the W. E. B. Du Boi...
ListenHistory, Photography, and Race in the South: From the Civil War to Now, Part 5 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Maurice Wallace, associate professor, department of English, and associate director, Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies, University of Virginia Bringing together s...
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Molli Kuenstner, image specialist for northern European art, National Gallery of Art, and Thomas O'Callaghan, image specialist for Spanish art, National Gallery of Art. In this lecture, which took ...
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December 2011 - Bryan Draper, Collections Conservator, University of Maryland Libraries; Norvell Jones, retired Chief of the Document Conservation Branch, National Archives; and Sheila Waters, call...
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Shawn Michelle Smith, professor and chair, department of visual and critical studies, School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Bringing together some 115 photographs from across four decades of the ...
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DEcember 2014 - Harriet Stratis, senior research conservator, Art Institute of Chicago. Concluding Remarks given by George T. M. Shackelford, deputy director, Kimbell Art Museum To celebrate the cl...
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November 2011 - Leonard Barkan, Class of 1943 University Professor and chair, department of comparative literature, Princeton University. Michelangelo is justly revered not only for his painting of...
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Katherine Henninger, associate professor, departments of English and women's and gender studies, Louisiana State University. Bringing together some 115 photographs from across four decades of the a...
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December 2014 - Norma Broude, professor emerita of art history, American University. To celebrate the closing day of its Degas/Cassatt exhibition, October 5, 2014, the National Gallery of Art hoste...
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December 2011 - Carmen Bambach, Andrew W. Mellon Professor, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art. Leonardo da Vinci is famous for his masterpieces of painting, such...
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LeRonn P. Brooks, assistant professor, department of African and African American Studies, Lehman College. Bringing together some 115 photographs from across four decades of the artist’s career, Sa...
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November 2014 - Panel discussion includes David Bindman, emeritus professor of the history of art, University College London; Adrienne L. Childs, associate, W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African a...
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December 2011 - Eleonora Luciano, associate curator of sculpture; Dylan Smith, Robert H. Smith Research Conservator; Naomi Remes, exhibition officer; Donna Kirk, senior architect and designer; Brad...
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Grace Elizabeth Hale, Commonwealth Chair of American Studies and History, University of Virginia. Bringing together some 115 photographs from across four decades of the artist’s career, Sally Mann:...
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November 2014 - Richard Kendall, curator at large, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown To celebrate the closing day of its Degas/Cassatt exhibition, October 5, 2014, the Nationa...
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November 2011 - David Alan Brown, curator of Italian and Spanish paintings, National Gallery of Art. Curator David Alan Brown discusses the impact that American art historians Paul Sachs (1878-1965...
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Kimberly A. Jones, curator of 19th-century French paintings, National Gallery of Art. Two of Claude Monet’s paintings of the garden at his home in Vétheuil, France, have been reunited for the first...
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November 2014 - Nancy Mowll Mathews, visiting associate professor, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, and Eugenie Prendergast Senior Curator and Lecturer Emerita, Williams College. To celebrate...
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November 2011 - Sarah Greenough, senior curator and head of the department of photographs, National Gallery of Art. In celebration of the exhibition opening, curator Sarah Greenough introduces Harr...
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Ann Hoenigswald, senior conservator of paintings, and Kimberly A. Jones, curator of 19th-century French paintings, National Gallery of Art Two of Claude Monet’s paintings of the garden at his home ...
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November 2014 - Richard L. Kagan, Arthur O. Lovejoy Professor Emeritus of History and Academy Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University. The 400th anniversary of the death of Domenikos Theotok...
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November 2011 - James Meyer, associate curator of modern and contemporary art, National Gallery of Art. In the Tower is a series of presentations of works by significant artists of the late 20th an...
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Kimberly A. Jones, curator of 19th-century French paintings, National Gallery of Art, and Emily Talbot, assistant curator, Norton Simon Museum. Two of Claude Monet’s paintings of the garden at his ...
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November 2014 - Miguel Falomir, head curator of Italian and French painting, Museo Nacional del Prado. In December of 1547, when Titian left Venice for Augsburg to meet the imperial court, he was u...
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November 2011 - Carl Brandon Strehlke, adjunct curator, John G. Johnson Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Art. In 1895 Bernard Berenson (1865-1959), American art historian and connoisseur, publish...
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Hal Foster, Townsend Martin, Class of 1917, Professor of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University. In the six-part lecture series Positive Barbarism: Brutal Aesthetics in the Postwar Period, Hal F...
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Artists Harun Farocki and Trevor Paglen in conversation with Niels Van Tomme, visiting curator, Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Artists Harun Far...
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November 2011 - Mel Bochner, artist, in conversation with James Meyer, associate curator of modern and contemporary art, National Gallery of Art. Mel Bochner is one of the leading figures of concep...
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Hal Foster, Townsend Martin, Class of 1917, Professor of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University. In the six-part lecture series Positive Barbarism: Brutal Aesthetics in the Postwar Period, Hal F...
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Patricia Junker, Ann M. Barwick Curator of American Art, Seattle Art Museum. Andrew Wyeth was always far from the mainstream in American art, but not simply because he was a realist painter at a ti...
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November 2011 - A two-time Pulitzer Prize winning author and recipient of the National Book Award, David McCullough discusses his new book, The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris. In this podcast ...
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Hal Foster, Townsend Martin, Class of 1917, Professor of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University. In the six-part lecture series Positive Barbarism: Brutal Aesthetics in the Postwar Period, Hal F...
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August 2014 - Philippe de Montebello, director emeritus, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Fiske Kimball Professor, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University; and Martin Gayford, London critic ...
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November 2011 - The Warhol: Headlines exhibition, on view at the National Gallery of Art from September 25, 2011, through January 2, 2012, defines and brings together works that Andy Warhol based l...
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Hal Foster, Townsend Martin, Class of 1917, Professor of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University. In the six-part lecture series Positive Barbarism: Brutal Aesthetics in the Postwar Period, Hal F...
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October 2014 - Karen Thorsen and Douglas Dempsey. Karen Thorsen, director of James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket, and cowriter Douglas Dempsey discuss the making of their award-winning documenta...
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November 2011 - Charles Dempsey, professor of Italian Renaissance and Baroque art, The Johns Hopkins University In this podcast recorded on November 14, 2004, as part of the Sydney J. Freedberg Lec...
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Hal Foster, Townsend Martin, Class of 1917, Professor of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University. In the six-part lecture series Positive Barbarism: Brutal Aesthetics in the Postwar Period, Hal F...
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October 2014 - Ksenya Gurshtein, National Gallery of Art; Luka Arsenjuk, school of languages, literatures, and culture, UMCP; Eric Zakim, Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies, UMCP; and Mauro Resmin...
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November 2011 - Peter J. Brownlee, associate curator, Terra Foundation for American Art Samuel F. B. Morse, best known for his role in the development of the electronic telegraph, began his career ...
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Hal Foster, Townsend Martin, Class of 1917, Professor of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University. In the six-part lecture series Positive Barbarism: Brutal Aesthetics in the Postwar Period, Hal F...
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October 2014 - Sandra Ramos, artist, and Michelle Bird, curatorial assistant, department of French paintings, National Gallery of Art. In this conversation, which took place on June 21, 2011 as par...
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November 2011 - David Alan Brown, curator of Italian and Spanish paintings, National Gallery of Art. As part of the Works in Progress lecture series on March 2, 2011, at the National Gallery of Art...
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Estelle Lingo, Andrew W. Mellon Professor, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art. The Tuscan sculptor Francesco Mochi (1580-1654) has long been viewed as an early in...
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October 2014 - Sarah Greenough, senior curator and head, department of photographs, National Gallery of Art.Captain Linnaeus Tripe was a British photographer best known for the outstanding body of ...
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November 2011 - Molly Donovan, associate curator of modern and contemporary art, National Gallery of Art. In 1975 Andy Warhol wrote: "I'm confused about who the news belongs to. I always have it in...
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Doris J. Schattschneider, professor emerita of mathematics, Moravian College. Held in conjunction with the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics annual meeting and the 120th anniversary of th...
ListenA Celebration of James Baldwin with Carolyn Forché and E. Ethelbert Miller from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
October 2014 - Carolyn Forché, poet and professor of English and director of the Lannan Center, Georgetown University; E. Ethelbert Miller, poet, literary activist, and director, African American R...
ListenThe Sydney J. Freedberg Lecture on Italian Art: The Fashioning of a Public Persona: Duchess Eleonora di Toledo's Ceremonial Dress and Her Portraits by Bronzino from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
October 2011 - Janet Cox-Rearick, distinguished professor of art history, City University of New York. Professor Janet Cox-Rearick reveals the secret of Bronzino's success as the only portrait pain...
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Christine Laloue, chief curator of harpsichords and fine arts, and Jean-Philippe Echard, curator of bowed string instruments, Musée de la musique, Cité de la musique-Philharmonie de Paris The harps...
ListenAmong Friends: Allen Ginsberg, Robert Delpire, Jonas Mekas, and Ed Grazda on Robert Frank, Part 4 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
September 2014 - Ed Grazda, photographer. Panel discussion follows with co-curators of the exhibition Sarah Greenough, curator of photographs, National Gallery of Art, and Philip Brookman, curator ...
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October 2011 - Nicholas Penny, senior curator of sculpture and decorative arts, National Gallery of Art. For the annual Sydney J. Freedberg Lecture on Italian Art, recorded on November 17, 2002, Ni...
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Molly Donovan, curator of art, 1975–present, National Gallery of Art, in conversation with artists Janine Antoni, Byron Kim, and Glenn Ligon. At the second annual John Wilmerding Symposium on Ameri...
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August 2014 - Ursula von Rydingsvard, artist. The artist, née Ursula Karoliszyn, was born in 1942 in Deensen, a small German town where her Polish-speaking Ukrainian father was conscripted by the N...
ListenThe Sydney J. Freedberg Lecture on Italian Art: Michelangelo and the Medici: From Florentine Prodigy to Tuscan Icon from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
October 2011 - Caroline Elam, editor, The Burlington Magazine, London. In this Sydney J. Freedberg Lecture on Italian Art, recorded on November 11, 2001, Caroline Elam explains the historical actua...
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Terence Washington, program assistant, department of academic programs, National Gallery of Art. In the poem “Joy,” Poet Laureate of the United States Tracy K. Smith describes the body alternately ...
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September 2014 - Jonas Mekas, filmmaker and founder, Anthology Film Archives. On October 15, 1994, the National Gallery of Art hosted a public symposium in honor of its first exhibition devoted to ...
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October 2011 - Sandy Nairne, Director, National Portrait Gallery, London. In 1994 two important paintings by J.M.W. Turner were stolen from a public gallery in Frankfurt, Germany, while on loan fro...
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Anne Whiston Spirn, author, photographer, landscape architect, and Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Landscape Architecture and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Many of Dorothea Lang...
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September 2014 - Robert Delpire, publisher and director, Centre Nationale de la Photographie, Paris. On October 15, 1994, the National Gallery of Art hosted a public symposium in honor of its first...
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October 2011 - James S. Ackerman, professor emeritus of the history of art and architecture, Harvard University Leonardo da Vinci was the only artist of his time to have an intense interest in scie...
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Judith Brodie, curator and head, department of modern prints and drawings, National Gallery of Art. Recent additions to the Gallery’s collection have sparked new discussions and new ways of thinkin...
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September 2014 - Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997), poet. On October 15, 1994, the National Gallery of Art hosted a public symposium in honor of its first exhibition devoted to a living photographer: Robe...
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October 2011 - William R. Rearick, professor emeritus, University of Maryland. Following the disastrous Venice floods on November 4, 1966, the Venice Committee of the International Fund for Monumen...
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Holly Bass, artistic director, Holly Bass|360. At the second annual John Wilmerding Symposium on American Art, held on March 23, 2018, at the National Gallery of Art, local artist Holly Bass discus...
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August 2014 - Photographers Ray Metzker, Emmet Gowin, and Jim Dow with Sarah Greenough, senior curator and head, department of photographs, National Gallery of Art. Photography was not invented unt...
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October 2011 - Kathleen Weil-Garris Brandt, professor, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University Little is known about the formative years of Michelangelo's career. Professor Kathleen Weil-Garris...
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John Fagg, lecturer, department of English literature, University of Birmingham. Robert Henri was referring to a cadaver he and his brother had just dissected when he confessed in an 1886 diary ent...
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August 2014 - Elizabeth Cropper, dean, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art. Ten years after completing his work The Last Communion of Saint Jerome, Bolognese paint...
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October 2011 - Jonas Mekas, filmmaker, poet, cofounder of Film Comment and the New America Cinema Group, and founder of Anthology Film Archives; Ken Jacobs, filmmaker, distinguished professor of ci...
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Charles Brock, associate curator, department of American and British paintings, National Gallery of Art When Both Members of This Club by George Bellows was placed on view at the National Gallery o...
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August 2014 - Franklin Kelly, senior curator of American and British paintings, National Gallery of Art. On view from July 3, 2005 through February 26, 2006, Winslow Homer in the National Gallery o...
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September 2011 - Sarah Greenough, senior curator and head of the department of photographs, National Gallery of Art. Sarah Greenough talks about her new book on the letters of Georgia O'Keeffe and ...
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Karen Lemmey, curator of sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum. Speaking at the second annual John Wilmerding Symposium on American Art, held on March 23, 2018, at the National Gallery of Art,...
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August 2014 - Michael Kimmelman, chief art critic, The New York Times, in conversation with Deborah Ziska, chief of press and public information, National Gallery of Art To honor the publication of...
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September 2011 - Christine Mehring, associate professor of art history and director of graduate studies, University of Chicago, and Stephen Vitiello, associate professor of kinetic imaging, Virgini...
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R. Tess Korobkin, PhD candidate, history of art, Yale University, and Ellen Holtzman Fellow, Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowship in American Art, 2017–2018. The fact that Frederick Douglass, a former...
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July 2014 - Christopher Rothko, son of the artist and editor of his father's book, The Artist's Reality: Philosophies of Art. "One of the most important artists of the 20th century, Mark Rothko (19...
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September 2011 - Ann Hamilton, artist. On September 16, 2011, Ann Hamilton presented a lecture on her nearly 30-year career as part of the Diamonstein-Spielvogel Lecture Series at the National Gall...
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Sarah Cash, associate curator, department of American and British paintings, National Gallery of Art. Sarah Cash presents a brief history of Hiram Powers’s marble sculpture The Greek Slave at the s...
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July 2014 - Anthony Alofsin, Roland Roessner Centennial Professor, School of Architecture, University of Texas at Austin. Anthony Alofsin is recognized as one of the world's leading authorities on ...
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September 2011 - Nancy Graves and Donald Saff, artists, in conversation with Ruth Fine, curator of special projects in modern art, National Gallery of Art. Artists Nancy Graves and Donald Saff, art...
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David C. Driskell, artist, curator, and Distinguished University Professor of Art, Emeritus, University of Maryland at College Park. Archibald Motley Jr.’s paintings of African American subjects un...
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July 2014 - John Hollander, Sterling Professor of English, Yale University. Works of art are silent; poetry speaks its mind. Painting is mute poetry, poetry a speaking picture. Beginning with class...
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September 2011 - Michael Kahn, artistic director, Shakespeare Theatre Company, in conversation with Eric Denker, lecturer, National Gallery of Art, and Faya Causey, head of the department of academ...
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Nancy Anderson, curator and head, department of American and British paintings, National Gallery of Art. When the National Gallery of Art opened in 1941, only ten American paintings were on view. A...
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July 2014 - Henry Adams, professor of American art, Case Western Reserve University. Andrew Wyeth first saw King Vidor's anti-war film The Big Parade when he was eight years old, and its emotional ...
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August 2011 - Michael Fried, J. R. Herbert Boone Professor and director of the Humanities Center, The Johns Hopkins University In a series of six lectures, Michael Fried offers a compelling account...
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Rachel Harrison, artist The studio life of Anne Truitt (1921–2004) is explored in the focus exhibition In the Tower: Anne Truitt, on view from November 19, 2017, through April 1, 2018. The first ma...
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July 2014 - Arthur K. Wheelock Jr., curator of northern baroque paintings, National Gallery of Art. At the end of the 19th century, Johannes Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring sold for a pittance,...
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August 2011 - Michael Fried, J. R. Herbert Boone Professor and director of the Humanities Center, The Johns Hopkins University In a series of six lectures, Michael Fried offers a compelling account...
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Jem Cohen, filmmaker The studio life of Anne Truitt (1921–2004) is explored in the focus exhibition In the Tower: Anne Truitt, on view from November 19, 2017, through April 1, 2018. The first major...
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June 2014 - George T. M. Shackelford, deputy director, Kimbell Art Museum. In this lecture recorded on February 2, 2014, at the National Gallery of Art, George Shackelford discusses Vincent van Gog...
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August 2011 - Michael Fried, J. R. Herbert Boone Professor and director of the Humanities Center, The Johns Hopkins University In a series of six lectures, Michael Fried offers a compelling account...
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Anna Lovatt, Marguerite Hoffman Scholar in Residence, Meadows School of the Arts, Southern Methodist University The studio life of Anne Truitt (1921–2004) is explored in the focus exhibition In the...
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June 2014 - Henry Adams, professor of American art, Case Western Reserve University. Although one of the grayest of American cities, Cleveland was one of the earliest places in the country to embra...
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August 2011 - Scott Burton and George Segal, artists, in conversation with Nan Rosenthal, curator of 20th-century art, National Gallery of Art. In honor of A Century of Modern Sculpture: The Patsy ...
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Miguel de Baca, Terra Foundation Visiting Professor of American Art, University of Oxford, and associate professor, department of art history, Lake Forest College The studio life of Anne Truitt (19...
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June 2014 - Richard Meryman, Andrew Wyeth biographer and lifelong friend; reporter, correspondent, editor, and staff writer, Life magazine. Richard Meryman began an enduring friendship with Andrew ...
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August 2011 - Michael Fried, J. R. Herbert Boone Professor and director of the Humanities Center, The Johns Hopkins University In a series of six lectures, Michael Fried offers a compelling account...
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Kristen Gonzalez, curatorial assistant, department of northern baroque paintings, National Gallery of Art; Irene Pepperberg, lecturer and research associate, department of psychology, Harvard Unive...
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June 2014 - Felix Monguilot Benzal, docent, Borghese Gallery, Rome, and Kress Interpretative Fellow (2012–2013), National Gallery of Art. In November of 1597, Doménikos Theotokópoulos (known as El ...
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August 2011 - Richard Misrach, photographer To coincide with the exhibition Carleton Watkins: The Art of Perception, on view from February 20 to May 7, 2000, Richard Misrach discussed his photograp...
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Zoe Leonard, artist, in conversation with Lynne Cooke, senior curator, special projects in modern art, National Gallery of Art. Zoe Leonard, born in Liberty, New York, in 1961, is acclaimed for her...
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June 2014 - Livia Stoenescu, visiting assistant professor, University of Houston-Clear Lake. Recorded on March 22, 2014, at the National Gallery of Art, this symposium explores the art and legacy o...
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August 2011 - Michael Fried, J. R. Herbert Boone Professor and director of the Humanities Center, The Johns Hopkins University In a series of six lectures, Michael Fried offers a compelling account...
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Carol Troyen, Kristin and Roger Servison Curator Emerita of American Paintings, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston In 1929, Georgia O’Keeffe and Rebecca Strand left their homes and famous photographer-hus...
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June 2014 - Hollis Clayson, Samuel H. Kress Professor, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art. American impressionist painter Mary Cassatt's art is reexamined in this...
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August 2011 - Ed Ruscha, artist. Ed Ruscha discusses his artistic processes and influences, and their relationship to photography, drawing, and pop culture in this podcast recorded on February 13, ...
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Mary Morton, curator and head, department of French paintings, National Gallery of Art. Bringing together some 60 paintings drawn from collections around the world, Cézanne Portraits is the first e...
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June 2014 - Naomi Lyons and Jeremy Cox, trustees, Frederick and Frances Sommer Foundation; and Ksenya Gurshtein, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow, National Gallery of Art. For the la...
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August 2011 - Michael Fried, J. R. Herbert Boone Professor and director of the Humanities Center, The Johns Hopkins University. In a series of six lectures, Michael Fried offers a compelling accoun...
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Carrie Mae Weems, artist. Made only a few years after Carrie Mae Weems received her MFA in 1984 from the University of California, San Diego, Kitchen Table Series consists of 20 staged photographs ...
ListenEl Greco: 400 Years After: Sainthood and Creativity: El Greco's Portraits of Saint Ildefonso and Giulio Clovio, Part 4 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
May 2014 - Livia Stoenescu, visiting assistant professor, University of Houston-Clear Lake. Recorded on March 22, 2014, at the National Gallery of Art, this symposium explores the art and legacy of...
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August 2011 - Pat Steir, artist, and Kathan Brown, founder and director of Crown Point Press, in conversation with Ruth Fine, curator of special projects in modern art, National Gallery of Art. In ...
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Aaron Cohen, music critic, humanities professor at Wright College, City Colleges of Chicago, and author of the forthcoming Move On Up: Chicago Soul Music and Black Cultural Power. On December 17, 2...
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May 2014 - Arthur K. Wheelock Jr., curator of northern baroque paintings, National Gallery of Art. The National Gallery of Art houses one of the most celebrated collections of Dutch paintings in th...
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May 2011 - Jim Dine, artist, in conversation with Judith Brodie, curator of modern prints and drawings, National Gallery of Art. Marking the opening of the Drawings of Jim Dine exhibition on March ...
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John Hand, curator of northern Renaissance paintings, National Gallery of Art Undoubtedly the greatest Renaissance artist from Estonia, Michel Sittow (c. 1469-1525) was born in Reval (now Tallinn i...
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May 2014 - Kimberly A. Jones, associate curator, department of French paintings, National Gallery of Art. Although Edgar Degas's influence upon Mary Cassatt has long been acknowledged, the extent t...
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July 2011 - Meryle Secrest, author. In this podcast recorded on June 19, 2011, at the National Gallery of Art, author Meryle Secrest reveals a portrait of one of the twentieth century's master pain...
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Sarah Greenough, senior curator and head, department of photographs, National Gallery of Art. For more than forty years, Sally Mann (b. 1951, Lexington, Virginia) has made experimental, elegiac, an...
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May 2014 - Fernando Marías, professor of art history, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid-RAH, and exhibition curator of The Greek of Toledo, Museo de Santa Cruz, Toledo. Recorded on March 22, 2014, at ...
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July 2011 - Roy Lichtenstein, artist, in conversation with Jack Cowart, curator of 20th-century art, National Gallery of Art; introduction by Ruth Fine, curator of the department of graphic arts, N...
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Celeste-Marie Bernier, professor of black studies and personal chair in English literature, School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, University of Edinburgh, and co-editor-in-chief, Journal o...
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May 2014 - Anthony Grafton, Princeton University. In this six-part lecture series entitled Past Belief: Visions of Early Christianity in Renaissance and Reformation Europe, Anthony Grafton focuses ...
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July 2011 - Britt Salvesen, curator and head, Wallis Annenberg Photography Department and prints and drawings department, Los Angeles County Museum of Art. In his Prototypes series of photographs, ...
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Melanie Gifford, research conservator, National Gallery of Art, and Lisha Glinsman, conservation scientist, National Gallery of Art. Recent technical research at the National Gallery of Art explore...
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May 2014 - In celebration of the recent gift of Andrew Wyeth's Wind from the Sea (1947)—one of the artist's most important paintings—the National Gallery of Art presents an exhibition focused on Wy...
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July 2011 - Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, artists, in conversation with Germano Celant, senior curator of contemporary art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; introduction by Marla Prather, as...
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Emily Pegues, curatorial assistant, department of sculpture and decorative arts, National Gallery of Art, and Dylan Smith, Robert H. Smith Research Conservator, department of object conservation, N...
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May 2014 - Anna Deavere Smith, actress, playwright, and director, Anna Deavere Smith Works at the Aspen Institute; Robert Storr, chairman of FAPE's Professional Fine Arts Committee and dean of the ...
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July 2011 - Maygene Daniels, Chief of Gallery Archives, National Gallery of Art. On March 17, 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt accepted the completed West Building of the National Gallery of A...
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Eric Denker, Senior Lecturer and Manager of Gallery Talks and Lectures for Adults, Department of Education. Dutch 17th-century homes typically would have included a variety of wall decorations, inc...
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May 2014 - Anthony Grafton, Princeton UniversityAnthony Grafton, Princeton University. In this six-part lecture series entitled Past Belief: Visions of Early Christianity in Renaissance and Reforma...
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July 2011 - Christo and Jeanne-Claude, artists To celebrate the opening of the exhibition Christo and Jeanne-Claude in the Vogel Collection on February 3, 2002, at the National Gallery of Art, arti...
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Henriette Rahusen, researcher, department of northern baroque paintings, National Gallery of Art. The paintings that portray daily life in the Dutch Republic in the 17th century often include image...
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May 2014 - Alicia Walker, assistant professor of the history of art, Bryn Mawr College. Held in conjunction with the exhibition Heaven and Earth: Art of Byzantium from Greek Collections, on view fr...
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July 2010 - Chuck Close, artist; Ambassador Cynthia P. Schneider, Georgetown University and the Brookings Institution; and Robert Storr, dean, Yale School of Art. Moderated by Joseph J. Krakora, ex...
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Jennifer Henel, curatorial coordinator for digital content, department of curatorial records and files. When looking at 17th-century Dutch genre painting, we see a story, recall a memory, or marvel...
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May 2014 - Felix Monguilot Benzal, docent, Borghese Gallery, Rome, and Kress Interpretive Fellow (2012 – 2013), National Gallery of Art. Recorded on March 22, 2014, at the National Gallery of Art, ...
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June 2011 - Richard Brettell, Margaret McDermott Distinguished Chair of Art and Aesthetics, Interdisciplinary Program in Arts and Humanities, University of Texas at Dallas. Professor Richard Brette...
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H. Perry Chapman, Professor, Department of Art History, University of Delaware. In the age of Vermeer, virtuous rivalry was thought to inspire painters to do their best; in contrast, envy, or jealo...
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April 2014 - Anthony Grafton, Princeton University. In this six-part lecture series entitled Past Belief: Visions of Early Christianity in Renaissance and Reformation Europe, Anthony Grafton focuse...
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June 2011 - Jim Dine, artist, in conversation with Judith Brodie, curator of modern prints and drawings, National Gallery of Art. In the first of two appearances at the National Gallery of Art to c...
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Joshua Shannon, associate professor and director of graduate studies, art history and archaeology, and director, The Potomac Center for the Study of Modernity, University of Maryland. In this lectu...
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April 2014 - Felix Monguilot Benzal, docent, Borghese Gallery, Rome, and Kress Interpretive Fellow (2012 – 2013), National Gallery of Art. Recorded on March 22, 2014, at the National Gallery of Art...
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June 2011 - Sam Gilliam, artist, in conversation with Ruth Fine, curator of special projects in modern art, National Gallery of Art. For the 10th annual Elson Lecture, recorded on April 28, 2003, a...
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Lynne Cooke, senior curator, department of special projects in modern art, National Gallery of Art. In the exhibition Outliers and American Vanguard Art, more than 250 works explore three distinct ...
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April 2014 - Glenn Peers, professor of art and art history, University of Texas, Austin. Held in conjunction with the exhibition Heaven and Earth: Art of Byzantium from Greek Collections, on view f...
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June 2011 - Andy Goldsworthy, artist. Two weeks after finishing his site-specific installation, Roof, on the Ground Level of the East Building of the National Gallery of Art, British artist Andy Go...
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Judith Brodie, curator and head, department of modern prints and drawings, National Gallery of Art. In this lecture held on January 14, 2018, Judith Brodie presents the special installation of 18 d...
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April 2014 - Bissera Pentcheva, associate professor of art and art history, Stanford University. Held in conjunction with the exhibition Heaven and Earth: Art of Byzantium from Greek Collections, o...
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June 2011 - Christo and Jeanne-Claude, artists. Artists Christo (b. 1935) and Jeanne-Claude (1935?2009) redefined the artistic practice by taking their art out of a museum setting and into urban an...
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Arthur K. Wheelock Jr., curator of northern baroque paintings, National Gallery of Art. Exhibitions always provide opportunities for seeing works of art with fresh eyes. Rarely, however, have the c...
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April 2014 - Shelley Rice, arts professor, department of photography and imaging and department of art history, New York University. Organized in conjunction with Charles Marville: Photographer of ...
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June 2011 - Last Looks, Last Books: The Binocular Poetry of Death Helen Vendler, A. Kingsley Porter University Professor, Harvard University. This six-part lecture series considers the final works ...
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Rosamond Mack, independent scholar. Giovanni Bellini (1430/1435–1516) and Titian’s (1488/1490–1576) The Feast of the Gods is one of the greatest Renaissance paintings in the United States by two fa...
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April 2014 - Anthony Grafton, Princeton University. In this six-part lecture series entitled Past Belief: Visions of Early Christianity in Renaissance and Reformation Europe, Anthony Grafton focuse...
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June 2011 - Wayne Thiebaud, artist. American artist and teacher Wayne Thiebaud discusses the important differences between "painting" and "art" in this podcast recorded on March 1, 2000, at the Nat...
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Lorena Bradford, head of accessible programs, education division, National Gallery of Art. Just Us at the National Gallery of Art is a new education program designed for people with memory loss and...
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April 2014 - William Tronzo, visiting faculty, University of California, San Diego. Held in conjunction with the exhibition Heaven and Earth: Art of Byzantium from Greek Collections, on view from O...
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June 2011 - Arthur K. Wheelock Jr., curator of northern baroque paintings, National Gallery of Art; Pieter Roelofs, curator of 17th-century paintings, Rijksmuseum; and Adriaan E. Waiboer, curator o...
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Sarah Cash, associate curator, department of American and British paintings, National Gallery of Art, and Ka’mal McClarin, museum curator, Frederick Douglass National Historic Site Collection, Nati...
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April 2014 - Jeannene Przyblyski, provost and faculty, California Institute of the Arts. Organized in conjunction with Charles Marville: Photographer of Paris, this symposium held on December 6, 20...
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June 2011 - Helen Vendler, A. Kingsley Porter University Professor, Harvard University. This six-part lecture series considers the final works of five modern American poets, as they "take the last ...
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David M. Lubin, Charlotte C. Weber Professor of Art, Wake Forest University, and Terra Foundation for American Art Visiting Professor 2016-2017, Oxford University. Grand Illusions: American Art and...
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April 2014 - Robin Cormack, professor emeritus of art history, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. When Lord Byron went to Greece in 1810, it was the art and culture of antiquity that...
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May 2011 - Ellsworth Kelly, artist, in conversation with Marla Prather, curator and head of the department of 20th-century art, National Gallery of Art. Contemporary artist Ellsworth Kelly joins cu...
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