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Image: Mel Bochner Theory of Boundaries, 1969-1970, The Nancy Lee and Perry Bass Fund, 2004.123.1Image: John Singleton Copley, Watson and the Shark, 1778, Ferdinand Lammot Belin Fund, 1963.6.1Image: Alexander Calder, Untitled, 1976, Gift of the Collectors Committee, 1977.76.1Image: Edward Hopper, East Side Interior, 1922, Rosenwald Collection, 1949.5.71

Sunday, May 17
11:30AM
Guided Tour: Early Italian to Early Modern: An Introduction to the West Building Collection
Children's Film: Leonardo: A Dream of Flight
Guided Tour: 1900 to Now: An Introduction to the East Building Collection
12:30PM
Guided Tour: The Sculpture Galleries
1:00PM
Gallery Talk: How, What, Why: Looking at Modern Art
1:30PM
Guided Tour: Italian Renaissance Collection
2:00PM
Lecture: Luis Meléndez: Marvelous Works of Nature Revealed
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: La vie moderne
6:30PM
Concert: Foundling Ensemble

Monday, May 18
11:30AM
Guided Tour: 1900 to Now: An Introduction to the East Building Collection
12:00PM
Guided Tour: French
Gallery Talk: Gauguin on Primitivism
12:10PM
Lecture: Old Topographics: Charles Marville in Haussmann's Paris
12:30PM
Guided Tour: The Sculpture Galleries
1:10PM
Lecture: Old Topographics: Charles Marville in Haussmann's Paris
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: French
2:30PM
Guided Tour: American Collection
3:30PM
Guided Tour: Early Italian to Early Modern: An Introduction to the West Building Collection

Tuesday, May 19
11:30AM
Guided Tour: 1900 to Now: An Introduction to the East Building Collection
12:00PM
Guided Tour: German
Gallery Talk: Heaven on Earth: Manuscript Illuminations from the National Gallery of Art
12:30PM
Guided Tour: French Collection: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century
1:00PM
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: German
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 20
11:30AM
Guided Tour: 1900 to Now: An Introduction to the East Building Collection
12:00PM
Gallery Talk: In the Tower: Philip Guston
12:30PM
Guided Tour: The Sculpture Galleries
1:00PM
Gallery Talk: "Bitumen" by Terry Winters
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 21
11:30AM
Guided Tour: 1900 to Now: An Introduction to the East Building Collection
12:00PM
Guided Tour: Japanese
Gallery Talk: The Lincoln Memorial: Daniel Chester French and Henry Bacon
12:30PM
Guided Tour: French Collection: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century
1:00PM
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: Japanese
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 22
11:30AM
Guided Tour: 1900 to Now: An Introduction to the East Building Collection
12:00PM
Guided Tour: American art in Spanish
12:30PM
Guided Tour: The Sculpture Garden
1:00PM
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
2:30PM
Guided Tour: American Collection
3:30PM
Guided Tour: Early Italian to Early Modern: An Introduction to the West Building Collection
5:00PM
Jazz Programs: Lady A (jazz and R & B vocalist)

Saturday, May 23
10:30AM
Guided Tour: Early Italian to Early Modern: An Introduction to the West Building Collection
11:30AM
Guided Tour: The Sculpture Galleries
Guided Tour: 1900 to Now: An Introduction to the East Building Collection
12:00PM
Guided Tour: German
12:30PM
Guided Tour: Italian Renaissance Collection
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: German
2:30PM
Guided Tour: American Collection
Film: Monsieur Verdoux
3:30PM
Guided Tour: French Collection: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century
Guided Tour: 1900 to Now: An Introduction to the East Building Collection


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