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Radio Programs: Current Schedule
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Biblical Subjects in Art
Philip Leonard, staff lecturer, talks about works currently
on view in the Gallery's collection with religious themes. Aired
March 31, 2001
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Ginevra's Story
Joe Krakora, executive external and international affairs officer,
discusses this, hour-long documentary, narrated
by Meryl Streep, about Leonardo da Vinci's
haunting and hypnotic masterpiece, Ginevra de' Benci, the only painting
by the master in the Western Hemisphere and the first of only
three known portraits he painted of women.
Aired December 16, 2000
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Holiday Tours
Philip Leonard, staff lecturer, talks about the Gallery's special
holiday tours The Christmas Story in Art that feature
works with holiday themes in the Gallery's permanent collection.
Aired December 9, 2000
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Holiday Decorations
Don Hand, chief horticulturist, discusses the Gallery's
traditional display of more than 300 holiday plants and greenery
that decorate the West Building's Rotunda and the Garden
Courts. Aired November 25, 2000
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Sculpture Garden Ice Skating Rink and Pavilion Café
Mark Leithauser, chief of design, talks about the November opening
of the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden ice skating rink
and Pavilion Café. Aired November 11, 2000.
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The Impressionists at Argenteuil
Philip Conisbee, senior curator of European paintings, discusses
selected works by six influential artists -- Eugene Boudin, Gustave
Caillebotte, Edouard Manet, Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir, and
Alfred Sisley -- that reveal their fascination with the small
town of Argenteuil just outside Paris, which became the inspiration
for and the subject of many of the most lyrical, dazzling, and
progressive paintings of the day. Aired May 27, 2000.
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The Triumph of the Baroque: Architecture in Europe 1600-1750
Henry Millon, dean of the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual
Arts, explores the achievements of the most famous architects
of the baroque era in this major exhibition which presents twenty-seven
original architectural models and forty related paintings, drawings,
prints, and medals. Aired May 20, 2000.
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Raphael and His Circle: Drawings from Windsor Castle
Martin Clayton, assistant curator in the Print Room of the Royal
Library at Windsor Castle, discusses how the drawings in this
exhibition drawn from the British Royal Collection reveal exemplary
skills and influence of one of Western art's greatest figures.
Aired May 13, 2000
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O'Keeffe on Paper
Barbara Buhler Lynes, co-curator of the exhibition, author of Georgia
O'Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonné, curator
of the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, and Emily Fisher
Landau Director of the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Research Center,
discuss new insights on the stunning watercolors, charcoals,
and pastels presented in the exhibition of O'Keeffe's most innovative
works on paper. Aired May 6, 2000.
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Gerrit Dou
Rembrandt's first pupil, one of the most highly esteemed Dutch
artists of the seventeenth century, is admired for the extraordinary
refinement and detail of his paintings. Arthur Wheelock, curator
of northern baroque paintings, discusses Dou's works, on view
in the exhibition. Aired April 15, 2000.
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Springtime in the Sculpture Garden
A walking tour of the plantings in the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden with Donald Hand, chief of horticulture. Aired April 1, 2000.
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Collectors Committee
Jeffrey Weiss, curator of modern and contemporary art, presents the Gallery's most recent acquisition of contemporary art, Andy Warhol's 1986 Self Portrait, which
is on view in the East Building. Aired March 25, 2000.
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Twentieth-Century American Art: The Ebsworth Collection
A lively discussion between collector Barney Ebsworth and Franklin Kelly, curator of American and British art, on the Ebsworth collection, one of the premier private holdings of American modernist art. Aired March 18, 2000.
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Carleton Watkins: The Art of Perception
Sarah Greenough, curator of photographs, talks about works by
celebrated nineteenth-century photographer Carleton Watkins,
on view in the first major exhibition of Watkin's work in 20
years. Aired March 11, 2000.
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Martin Johnson Heade, Part Two
Franklin Kelly, curator of British and American painting, continues the discussion of the exhibition, Martin Johnson Heade. Aired March 4, 2000.
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Martin Johnson Heade, Part One
Franklin Kelly, curator of British and American painting, presents
an overview of the work of Martin Johnson Heade, one of the most
innovative and creative artists of the nineteenth century. Aired February 26, 2000.
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