November 10, 1998
Japanese City of Edo is Re-Created
in Virtual Reality Computer Program for Visitors to "Edo: Art in Japan
1615-1868" At the National Gallery of Art
November 5, 1998
Japanese Performing Arts Festival
to Complement Major Exhibition, "Edo: Art in Japan 1615-1868"
November 3, 1998
Courtly and Secular Life in the Late Middle
Ages on View at National Gallery in First International Exhibition of Medieval
Art
October 6, 1998
Bernini's Rome
September 26, 1998
Courtesan Painting in "Van Gogh's
Van Goghs" Inspired by Print in "Edo: Art in Japan 1615-1868"
September 23, 1998
"Van Gogh's Van Goghs": National
Gallery of Art Presents 70 Paintings by Dutch Master
August 27, 1998
Whitney Gifts - Van Gogh "Self-Portrait"
Is Among Masterpieces Bequeathed to National Gallery of Art by Betsey Cushing
Whitney
(News Release)
"Manet, Monet, and the Gare Saint-Lazare"
on View at the National Gallery of Art, June 14-September 20, 1998
(News Release)
First Major U.S. Survey of Edo Art from
Japan, Only at the National Gallery of Art, November 15, 1998 - February 15,
1999
(News Release)
Artists and the Avant-Garde
(News Release)
National Gallery Commemorates 20th Anniversary
Of East Building With Works Showing Early Architectural Designs
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