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FAQ: Auditorium Programs
Lecture-related events are free and open to the public. Seating is available on a first-come, first-seated basis. Registration is not required.
The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts were established by the National Gallery of Art's Board of Trustees in 1949 "to bring to the people of the United States the results of the best contemporary thought and scholarship bearing upon the subject of the Fine Arts."
Picasso and Truth
T. J. Clark, George C. and Helen N. Pardee Chair and professor of history of art, University of California, Berkeley
In anticipation of high attendance, this program will be simulcast in the East Building Small Auditorium. The program will also be recorded and a screening of the recording will be shown the week after each lecture, on Wednesday, in the West Building Lecture Hall at 12:30 p.m.
Lectures are free and open to the public. Seating is available on a first-come, first-seated basis. Registration is not required.
Panel discussion with Stephen G. Breyer, Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States; Paul Goldberger, architecture critic for The New Yorker and Joseph Urban Professor of Design and Architecture, New School; and Robert Storr, dean, Yale School of Art. Moderated by Molly Donovan, associate curator of modern and contemporary art, National Gallery of Art.
This program is coordinated with the Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies.
The event is free and open to the public. Seating is available on a first-come, first-seated basis. Registration is not required. In anticipation of high attendance, this program will be simulcast in the East Building Small Auditorium and the West Building Lecture Hall.
Lectures are free and open to the public. Seating is available on a first-come, first-seated basis. Registration is not required.
Dale Kent, professor of history, University of California, Riverside
John House, Samuel H. Kress Professor, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art
Gretchen A. Hirschauer, associate curator of Italian and Spanish paintings, and Catherine A. Metzger, senior conservator of paintings, National Gallery of Art
Film Color before 1928
Charles O'Brien, School for Studies in Art and Culture, Carleton University, Ottawa
Followed by the film Film Color before 1928
Technicolor on Location: Unreality in the Great Outdoors
David Pierce, film historian and archivist
Followed by the films Follow Thru, Service with a Smile, and The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
Technical Theater: The Musical
David Pierce, film historian and archivist
Followed by the films La Cucaracha and Can’t Help Singing
Matthew S. Witkovsky, curator and chair of the department of photography, Art Institute of Chicago
Jeff Wilson, graphics designer, design department, National Gallery of Art
Lea-Ann Bigelow, financial manager, Office of the Treasurer, National Gallery of Art
Sarah Kennel, assistant curator of photographs, National Gallery of Art
Lisa Farrell in conversation with Faya Causey, head of academic programs, National Gallery of Art
Gregory Jecmen, associate curator of old master prints, National Gallery of Art
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