Release Date: December 22, 2000
National Gallery of Art
Acquires Core Collection of More Than 450 Photographs by Lee Friedlander
Release Date: December 20, 2000
National Gallery
of Art Videodisc of European Art Available for Loan Free of Charge
Release Date: December 18, 2000
Modern Art and America:
Alfred Stieglitz and His New York Galleries
Release Date: December 15, 2000
National Gallery of Art
Offers Variety of Special Programs for the Public During "Modern Art and
America: Alfred Stieglitz and His New York Galleries"
Release Date: Updated December 7, 2000
National Gallery of Art
Presents Ginevra's Story, A New Documentary That Uncovers The Mysteries
of Leonardo Da Vinci's First Known Portrait
Release Date: November 20, 2000
National Gallery of Art to
Return Painting to Heirs as a Result of Gallery Research and Web Posting
Release Date: November 15, 2000
National Gallery of Art Opens
Redesigned Cascade Cafe, Offering an Enhanced Dining Experience for Visitors
Release Date: October 16, 2000
Phenomenal Surge in
Printmaking Explored in "Prints Abound: Paris in the 1890s From the Collections
of Virginia and Ira Jackson and The National Gallery of Art" On View 22
October 2000 - 25 February 2001
Release Date: October 2, 2000
National Gallery of Art
Trustees Elect Robert F. Erburu as Chairman and Appoint Victoria P. Sant
as New Trustee, as Alexander M. Laughlin Retires
Release Date: September 18, 2000
National Gallery of Art
Begins its Fifty-Ninth Concert Season 1 October 2000
Release Date: September 2, 2000
National Gallery of Art Launches
Children's Web Site
Release Date: August 14, 2000
Paintings and Precious Objects
from the Renaissance on view in Newly Constructed Italian Cabinet Galleries
Release Date: August 14, 2000
National Gallery of Art Acquisition
of Four 1960s "Projection Pieces" by James Turrell Made Possible by The Brown
Foundation, Inc. of Houston; Artist to Give Gallery a Fifth Installation
Piece
Release Date: July 29, 2000
National Gallery of Art Names
Elizabeth Cropper as Dean of Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts
as Center Begins Third Decade of Programs for Scholars
Release Date: June 9, 2000
National Gallery of Art Presents
New Documentary About Leonardo da Vinci's Masterpiece "Ginevra de' Benci" Narrated
in Italian by Isabella Rosellini to Air on RAISAT this Summer
Release Date: May 16, 2000
Spectacular Models and Other
Works Document Masterpieces of Baroque Architecture in Europe at the National
Gallery of Art, 21 May - 9 October 2000
Release Date: April 25, 2000
National Gallery of Art
Acquires Turn-of-Century Paris Metropolitan Entrance: After Exhibition
Tour to be Installed in Sculpture Garden
Release Date: April 20, 2000
First Exhibition Exploring
Argenteuil and its Historic Role in the Development of Impressionism, at
the National Gallery of Art, 28 May 2000 - 20 August 2000
Release Date: March 13, 2000
National Gallery of
Art Launches Online Tours of Alfred Stieglitz Photography Collection
Release Date: March 13, 2000
National Gallery of Art Acquisitions
of Late Warhol Painting, Drawing by Reinhardt, and Photographs by Lyon and
Winogrand, made Possible by Collectors Committee
Release Date: March 3, 2000
National Gallery of Art Acquires
Sheeler's "Classic Landscape," Dove's "Moon," and Thompson's "Tree" Gifts
from Mr. and Mrs. Barney A. Ebsworth
Release Date: February 8, 2000
Exhibition of Masterworks
by Carleton Watkins Incorporates Victorian-Era Stereoscopes and State-of-the-Art
Three-Dimensional Imaging Technology on Interactive Computers
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