National Gallery of Art

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

March 31, 1998
An Edition of Scott Burton's "Six-Part Seating" (1985), Will be Fabricated in 1998 for the National Gallery of Art's Sculpture Garden, Now Under Construction

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Major Retrospective of Works by Mark Rothko Presents Wide Range of Styles Over Four Decades on View at Tthe National Gallery of Art, May 3-August 16, 1998

(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)
"Alexander Calder: 1898-1976", The First Major Retrospective of the Artist's Work Organized in the United States Since his Death in 1976

(News Release)
National Gallery Commemorates 20th Anniversary Of East Building With Works Showing Early Architectural Designs

General Information

The National Gallery of Art and its Sculpture Garden are at all times free to the public. They are located on the National Mall between 3rd and 9th Streets at Constitution Avenue NW, and are open Monday through Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and Sunday from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. The Gallery is closed on December 25 and January 1. For information call (202) 737-4215 or the Telecommunications Device for the Deaf (TDD) at (202) 842-6176, or visit the Gallery's Web site at www.nga.gov.

Visitors will be asked to present all carried items for inspection upon entering the East and West Buildings. Checkrooms are free of charge and located at each entrance. Luggage and other oversized bags must be presented at the 4th Street entrances to the East or West Building to permit x-ray screening and must be deposited in the checkrooms at those entrances. For the safety of visitors and the works of art, nothing may be carried into the Gallery on a visitor's back. Any bag or other items that cannot be carried reasonably and safely in some other manner must be left in the checkrooms. Items larger than 17 x 26 inches cannot be accepted by the Gallery or its checkrooms.

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Press Office
National Gallery of Art
2000B South Club Drive
Landover, MD 20785
phone: (202) 842-6353 e-mail: pressinfo@nga.gov

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(202) 842-6353
ds-ziska@nga.gov

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