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Image: Mel Bochner, Theory of Boundaries, 1969–1970, The Nancy Lee and Perry Bass Fund, 2004.123.1Image: Edward Hopper, The Cat Boat, 1922, Rosenwald Collection, 1949.5.72Image: John Singleton Copley, Watson and the Shark, 1778, Ferdinand Lammot Belin Fund, 1963.6.1Image: Alexander Calder, Untitled, 1976, Gift of the Collectors Committee, 1977.76.1

Sunday, May 10
11:30AM
Guided Tour: Early Italian to Early Modern: An Introduction to the West Building Collection
Guided Tour: 1900 to Now: An Introduction to the East Building Collection
12:00PM
Gallery Talk: Gauguin's Primitivism in Painting and Sculpture
12:30PM
Guided Tour: The Sculpture Galleries
1:30PM
Guided Tour: Italian Renaissance Collection
2:00PM
Lecture: Painting the Poor: Manet's "Old Musician" in Context
2:30PM
Guided Tour: American Collection
3:30PM
Guided Tour: French Collection: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century
Guided Tour: 1900 to Now: An Introduction to the East Building Collection
4:30PM
Guided Tour: Early Italian to Early Modern: An Introduction to the West Building Collection
Film: New Masters of European Cinema:
Hunky Blues—The American Dream
Péter Forgács in person
6:30PM
Concert: Nancy Peery Marriott, soprano
with David Chapman, pianist, Daniel Heifetz, violinist, and Scott Sabo, trumpeter

Monday, May 11
11:30AM
Guided Tour: 1900 to Now: An Introduction to the East Building Collection
12:00PM
Gallery Talk: The Lincoln Memorial: Daniel Chester French and Henry Bacon
12:10PM
Lecture: Alma Thomas' "Red Rose Cantata"
12:30PM
Guided Tour: The Sculpture Galleries
1:10PM
Lecture: Alma Thomas' "Red Rose Cantata"
1:30PM
Guided Tour: Early Italian to Early Modern: An Introduction to the West Building Collection
Guided Tour: Italian Renaissance Collection
Guided Tour: 1900 to Now: An Introduction to the East Building Collection
2:30PM
Guided Tour: American Collection
3:30PM
Guided Tour: Early Italian to Early Modern: An Introduction to the West Building Collection

Tuesday, May 12
11:30AM
Guided Tour: 1900 to Now: An Introduction to the East Building Collection
12:00PM
Guided Tour: Italian
12:30PM
Guided Tour: French Collection: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century
1:00PM
Lecture: The Role of Art and Architecture in Civic Buildings
Gallery Talk: How, What, Why: Looking at Modern Art
1:30PM
Guided Tour: Early Italian to Early Modern: An Introduction to the West Building Collection
Guided Tour: Italian Renaissance Collection
Guided Tour: 1900 to Now: An Introduction to the East Building Collection
2:00PM
Guided Tour: Italian
2:30PM
Guided Tour: Points of View: The Painter's Choices
3:30PM
Guided Tour: Early Italian to Early Modern: An Introduction to the West Building Collection

Wednesday, May 13
11:30AM
Guided Tour: 1900 to Now: An Introduction to the East Building Collection
12:30PM
Guided Tour: The Sculpture Galleries
1:30PM
Guided Tour: Early Italian to Early Modern: An Introduction to the West Building Collection
Guided Tour: Italian Renaissance Collection
Guided Tour: 1900 to Now: An Introduction to the East Building Collection
2:30PM
Guided Tour: American Collection
3:30PM
Guided Tour: Early Italian to Early Modern: An Introduction to the West Building Collection

Thursday, May 14
11:30AM
Guided Tour: 1900 to Now: An Introduction to the East Building Collection
12:00PM
Guided Tour: Spanish
Gallery Talk: In the Tower: Philip Guston
12:30PM
Guided Tour: French Collection: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century
1:00PM
Gallery Talk: Mythology in Art
1:30PM
Guided Tour: Early Italian to Early Modern: An Introduction to the West Building Collection
Guided Tour: Italian Renaissance Collection
Guided Tour: 1900 to Now: An Introduction to the East Building Collection
2:00PM
Guided Tour: Spanish
2:30PM
Guided Tour: Points of View: The Painter's Choices
3:30PM
Guided Tour: Early Italian to Early Modern: An Introduction to the West Building Collection

Friday, May 15
11:30AM
Guided Tour: 1900 to Now: An Introduction to the East Building Collection
12:00PM
Guided Tour: Polish
12:30PM
Guided Tour: The Sculpture Garden
1:00PM
Gallery Talk: Moved by Art: A Kinesthetic Exploration of Picasso
Gallery Talk: The Creative Struggle: German Art of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries in the National Gallery of Art
1:30PM
Guided Tour: Early Italian to Early Modern: An Introduction to the West Building Collection
Guided Tour: Italian Renaissance Collection
Guided Tour: 1900 to Now: An Introduction to the East Building Collection
2:00PM
Guided Tour: Polish
2:30PM
Guided Tour: American Collection
3:30PM
Guided Tour: Early Italian to Early Modern: An Introduction to the West Building Collection

Saturday, May 16
10:30AM
Guided Tour: Early Italian to Early Modern: An Introduction to the West Building Collection
Children's Film: Leonardo: A Dream of Flight
11:30AM
Guided Tour: The Sculpture Galleries
Guided Tour: 1900 to Now: An Introduction to the East Building Collection
12:00PM
Guided Tour: Italian
Guided Tour: Spanish
Guided Tour: Korean
Gallery Talk: In the Tower: Philip Guston
12:30PM
Guided Tour: Italian Renaissance Collection
1:00PM
Gallery Talk: Moved by Art: A Kinesthetic Exploration of Picasso
1:30PM
Guided Tour: Early Italian to Early Modern: An Introduction to the West Building Collection
Guided Tour: The Sculpture Garden
2:00PM
Guided Tour: Italian
Guided Tour: Spanish
Guided Tour: Korean
Film: L'approche
2:30PM
Guided Tour: American Collection
3:30PM
Guided Tour: French Collection: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century
Guided Tour: 1900 to Now: An Introduction to the East Building Collection
4:00PM
Film: Le quotidien


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