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Artistic Centers of the Italian Renaissance
Friday, January 16, 2009 at 10:30 a.m.
Art historian Aneta Georgievska-Shine discusses art of the Renaissance from the main patronage centers including Florence, Rome and Venice.
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Botany Prints Over Time
Thursday, January 22, 2009 at 10:30 a.m.
Members Only Tour: Curator Leslie Overstreet will talk about the technologies of making and publishing botanical prints with a special focus on orchids. You will be in the rare book reading room and see volumes in early botany, woodcuts, hand-colored engravings and 21st-century digital photography.
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Talking About Art at the National Gallery
Thursday, January 29, 2009 at 10:15 a.m.
Explore the National Gallery of Art and increase your ability to understand, discuss, and appreciate the compositions of a wide range of artists, from Holbein to Modigliani and from Titian to Degas. By analyzing the Great Masters firsthand, students gain concrete vocabulary and valuable insight into the practical how-to of numerous compositional elements, including depth illusions, light, balance, and paint application.
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Talking About Art at the National Gallery
Thursday, January 29, 2009 at 2 p.m.
Explore the National Gallery of Art and increase your ability to understand, discuss, and appreciate the compositions of a wide range of artists, from Holbein to Modigliani and from Titian to Degas. By analyzing the Great Masters firsthand, students gain concrete vocabulary and valuable insight into the practical how-to of numerous compositional elements, including depth illusions, light, balance, and paint application.
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A Turkish Odyssey
Saturday, January 31, 2009 at 9:30 a.m.
Anatolia’s colorful history has left a windfall of cultural
riches—ancient ruins, ornate Byzantine churches, elegant
mosques, and splendid Ottoman palaces. This illustrated
seminar highlights the history of ancient Turkey by way of
some of its hidden gems.
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Explore the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Tuesday, February 3, 2009 at 11:30 a.m.
Members Only: Explore traditional and non-traditional art at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Tour begins with traditional American Graphic Masters and proceeds to the Lincoln Gallery, the museum’s showcase of contemporary multi-media American work.
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Discover Conservation Facilities at Smithsonian American Art Museum
Tuesday, February 3, 2009 at 1:30 p.m.
Members Only: Discover the Lunder Conservation and Luce Foundation centers at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. These unique facilities allow visitors to see works not on display in the galleries, and to learn about art conservation.
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Treasures of the Smithsonian Libraries
Thursday, February 5, 2009 at 10:30 a.m.
Members Only: Rare Books Curator Leslie Overstreet will introduce some of the “Treasures of the Smithsonian Libraries,” products of past centuries when books were beautiful works of art. Books in the collection include famous first editions of Darwin, Linnaeus and Audubon and the special collection of James Smithson.
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Botany Prints Over Time
Wednesday, February 11, 2009 at 10:30 a.m.
Members Only Tour: Curator Leslie Overstreet will talk about the technologies of making and publishing botanical prints with a special focus on orchids. You will be in the rare book reading room and see volumes in early botany, woodcuts, hand-colored engravings and 21st-century digital photography.
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Painters of the American Scene: Celebrating Four Major American Artists
Wednesday, February 11, 2009 at 6:45 p.m.
Art historian Bonita Billman at the Smithsonian American Art Museum offers an in-depth exploration of the art and milieu of four artists in its collection: Childe Hassam, Winslow Homer, Edward Hopper, and Thomas Hart Benton.
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Ancient Pompeii: Modern Views
Saturday, February 14, 2009 at 9:30 a.m.
To highlight the exhibition "Pompeii and the Roman Villa" at the National Gallery of Art, scholars including guest curator Carol Mattusch explore the rich cultural and artistic life around the Bay of Naples before the eruption of 79 A.D.
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Istanbul: The World in a City
Thursday, February 19, 2009 at 6:45 p.m.
A Mediterranean city of extraordinary history and great cultural diversity, Istanbul was twice capital of the Mediterranean and the Middle East—once of a Christian empire, then an Islamic one. It is part European, and yet no less Asian. It was founded by an emigre from ancient Greece, then captured 2,000 years later
by a prince whose origins lay in central Asia. Instructor Nigel McGilchrist writes for Blue Guides, the world’s oldest English-language historical guidebook.
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The Barnes Foundation
Friday, February 20, 2009 at 10 a.m.
Fine art and horticulture abound in the Barnes Foundation, an intimate jewel of a museum just outside of Philadelphia. Art Historian Ursula Wolfman leads a tour of the masterpieces housed here.
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Titian, Michelangelo, Caravaggio, and Bernini: Pivotal Artists of Italy
Saturday, February 21, 2009 at 9:30 a.m.
Nigel McGilchrist, an independent scholar and former consultant to the superintendent of fine arts of the Italian government, looks at the works of Titian, Michelangelo, Caravaggio, and Bernini to examine how they revolutionized the world of art.
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Prague: City of 100 Spires
Monday, February 23, 2009 at 6:45 p.m.
Get lost in Prague, the city of 100 spires, with travel writer David Farley. Walk over the sculpture-studded Charles Bridge and discover the district celebrated in the film Amadeus—this is a city waiting to be explored.
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East and West: 17th-Century Art from Amsterdam to Agra
Tuesday, February 24, 2009 at 6:45 p.m.
Painter and author Julian Bell discusses the great art of the 17th century, both in Europe and Asia, and the influences and developments that affected the era.
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The Barnes Foundation
Friday, March 13, 2009 at 10 a.m.
Fine art and horticulture abound in the Barnes Foundation, an intimate jewel of a museum just outside of Philadelphia. Art Historian Ursula Wolfman leads a tour of the masterpieces housed here.
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Van Gogh: Brush with Genius in IMAX
Tuesday, March 17, 2009 at 7 p.m.
D.C. premiere of Van Gogh: Brush with Genius. Van Gogh's life and his paintings are brought to life for the first time with the stunning visual effects of the giant screen film medium.
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Why a Painting Is Like a Pizza: How to Understand and Enjoy Modern Art
Thursday, March 19, 2009 at 6:45 p.m.
Refine your analytical tools to understand and appreciate even the most abstract and nontraditional paintings and sculptures. Learn about their elements and composition through examples of works by Picasso, Chagall, Rothko, and others.
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A Day with Cezanne and Cinderella
Saturday, March 21, 2009 at 6:45 a.m.
Enjoy the art of Cézanne and the ballet Cinderella during a day trip to Philadelphia. Art Historian Ursula Wolfman leads of a tour of Cézanne and Beyond at the Philadelphia Art Museum in the morning, followed by an afternoon performance of Prokofiev’s Cinderella, choreographed by Ben Stevenson.
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Discover Modern Architecture: From Art Nouveau to Post-Modernism
Saturday, March 21, 2009 at 9:30 a.m.
Using slides of great art works from Picasso to Pollock, art historian Nancy Heller helps make modern art more approachable, and reveals its aesthetic and emotional pleasures.
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Bourgeois at the Hirshhorn
Wednesday, March 25, 2009 at 10:30 a.m.
Members Only Tour: Discover the exciting works of Louise Bourgeois, French-born artist who emigrated to the US in 1938. Inspired by avant-garde movements – surrealism, conceptualism, psychoanalysis, feminism -- her works encompass an array of images and materials, ranging from plaster, bronze, marble and wood to plastic, latex, wax, steel, toy doll fragments, electric lights, and found objects.
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Quilts: From Amish to Art Quilts
Saturday, April 4, 2009 at 7:45 a.m.
Explore quilting heritage in Amish country during this day trip to the Quilters’ Heritage Celebration. Participants begin the day at the Lancaster Quilt & Textile Museum, view exhibitions at the Celebration, and end with an Amish family-style feast.
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An Evening in Ancient Rome
Tuesday, April 7, 2009 at 6:45 p.m.
Author George Sullivan presents an illustrated tour of the well-known and not-so-familiar sites of ancient Rome including the Circus Maximus, Baths of Caracalla, Roman Forum, Temple of the Deified Hadrian, Theater of Marcellus, and many others.
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