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- Today in Gallery History: On September 11, 1971, an exhibition of stage design objects from the Museo Teatrale alla Scala in Milan opened at the Gallery. The exhibition coincided with the opening of Washington, DC's own new performing arts ...facility, the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Center.See More
Image: View of the exhibition “La Scala: 400 Years of Stage Design from the Museo Teatrale alla Scala, Milan” at the National Gallery of Art. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Gallery Archives
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The Gallery’s renowned collections of prints, drawings, and illustrated volumes totals more than 108,000 objects. While these works cannot stay on long-term view due to their sensitivity to light, we regularly cycle special exhibitions draw...n from these holdings. But did you know you can also make an appointment to view any work on paper not currently on view in the Gallery’s Study Rooms? Roland Flamini elaborates in The Washington Times.See More- Tonight at 6:30 p.m., the music of John Cage fills the Gallery’s grand atrium in the East Building. Don’t miss the closing concert of the John Cage Centennial Festival Washington, DC, featuring the National Gallery of Art New Music Ensemble.Sunday, September 9 at 6:30pm in EDT at National Gallery of Art
- Today in Gallery History: On September 9, 1942, the National Gallery of Art received from Joseph E. Widener, in memory of his father, Peter A. B. Widener, an extraordinary collection of paintings, sculpture, and decorative arts. Widener's g...ift was one of the greatest donations to any museum and included the “Feast of the Gods” by Bellini and Titian and the “Chalice of Abbot Suger of St. Denis.”See More
Image: Giovanni Bellini and Titian, “The Feast of the Gods,” 1514/1529, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Widener Collection
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- Today in Gallery History: On September 8, 1976, a press conference was held at the National Gallery of Art to announce the Egyptian government's extraordinary loan of 55 treasures from the tomb of Tutankhamun for a United States tour. The e...xhibition, which opened at the National Gallery of Art on November 17, 1976, was enormously popular, with lines of waiting visitors sometimes completely encircling the West Building.See More
Image: “Treasures of Tutankhamun” press conference and uncrating of gold mask, September 8, 1976. J. Carter Brown, National Gallery of Art Director 1969-1992, is second from right. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Gallery Archives
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- Sunday at 2:00 p.m., celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of influential composer and artist John Cage. Jenny Lin, pianist, and Roger Reynolds, University Professor, University of California, San Diego, will present the lecture “PASSAGE 7: John Cage"—incidents, texts, conversations, and music” as part of the John Cage Centennial Festival Washington, DC.Sunday, September 9 at 2:00pm in EDT at National Gallery of Art
- This Saturday at 2:00 p.m., don’t miss the DC premiere of “El Velador” by acclaimed Mexican filmmaker Natalia Almada. Her documentary follows the daily life of the “velador” (caretaker) of a cemetery for drug lords in Culiacan, Mexico. Obse...rvational filmmaking at its most artistic, developed through long takes and careful sound recording, “El Velador” is serene and deferential, "an acknowledgment of the chasm between our lives and theirs," according to Elise Nakhnikian, film critic at The L Magazine.See MoreSaturday, September 8 at 2:00pm in EDT at National Gallery of Art
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In the fifth and final installment of this podcast series on Miró, recorded on June 1 and 2 during a symposium held in honor of the exhibition "Joan Miró: The Ladder of Escape," art historian and curator Jaume Reus discusses " L'Oeuvre de guerre of Miró: Constellation Series, Série Barcelona, and Ceramics, 1940-1945."- Today in Gallery History: September 5, 1988, was the final day to view “Sweden: A Royal Treasury, 1550-1700” at the National Gallery of Art. Their Majesties King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia of Sweden attended the opening of the exhibit...ion, which presented decorative art objects from the 16th and 17th centuries in the Swedish royal collections.See More
Image: Photo from the exhibition “Sweden: A Royal Treasury 1550-1700.” National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Gallery Archives
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Hear John Wilmerding, renowned American art historian and former deputy director at the National Gallery of Art, discuss his book "Signs of the Artist: Signatures and Self-Expression in American Paintings." He explores the unconventional us...e of signatures in American paintings from the 18th through 20th centuries by such artists as John Singleton Copley, Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, Jasper Johns, Andrew Wyeth, and Richard Estes.See More- Today in Gallery History: On September 3, 1942 the National Gallery of Art accepted as a gift a portrait of Captain Warren Delano by American artist Charles Loring Elliott. The painting was given to the museum by the Honorable Frederic A. D...elano, uncle of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and long-time friend of the Gallery's founder, Andrew W. Mellon.See More
Image: Charles Loring Elliott, “Captain Warren Delano,” c. 1852, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of Frederic A. Delano
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- Today in Gallery History: On September 1, 1963, the National Gallery of Art announced that “Young Lady Wearing a Mantilla and Basquina” by Spanish painter Francisco de Goya had been bequeathed to the museum by Mrs. P. H. B. Frelinghuysen of...Morristown, New Jersey. The painting, which was immediately placed on display, had been purchased by Mrs. Frelinguysen's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Horace O. Havemeyer of New York, at the end of the 19th century.See More
Image: Francisco de Goya, “Young Lady Wearing a Mantilla and Basquina,” c. 1800/1805, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of Mrs. P. H. B. Frelinghuysen
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- On August 31, 1980, "The Morton G. Neumann Family Collection" opened at the National Gallery of Art. The exhibition included 137 paintings, drawings, watercolors and works of sculpture by twentieth-century European and American artists, col...lected by the Chicago businessman Morton G. Neumann.See More
Image: Installation view of "The Morton G. Neumann Family Collection." National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., Gallery Archives
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- www.nga.govIn-depth look at Alexander Calder's stabiles, large scale fixed sculptures
- This weekend, the Gallery kicks off the first North American retrospective of Russian filmmaker Aleksei Guerman. He endured production delays, losses of funding, and the collapse of the Soviet Union to create one of the richest bodies of cinematic work in contemporary culture. The series opens Sunday at 4:30 p.m. with Guerman's 1998 film “Khrustalyov, My Car!”, a whirling evocation of Joseph Stalin's final days.Sunday, September 2 at 4:30pm in EDT at National Gallery of Art
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Hear Lorena Baines, museum educator at the National Gallery of Art, describe in detail Edouard Manet's “The Railway,” one of the most iconic paintings within the Gallery's nineteenth-century French collection. This audio recording is designed to aid Gallery visitors who are blind or have low vision, as well as to engage anyone interested in exploring the painting at leisure from a descriptively visual point of view.- Today in Gallery History: On August 29, 1978, "The American Folk Art Tradition: Paintings from the Garbisch Collection" opened at the National Gallery of Art. The exhibition included 54 paintings given to the museum by Edgar William and Ber...nice Chrysler Garbisch over a period of 25 years.See More
Image: Photograph from 1978 Garbisch Collection exhibition. National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., Gallery Archives
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- Now on view in “The McCrindle Gift: A Distinguished Collection of Drawings and Watercolors,” John Singer Sargent’s luminous c. 1891 watercolor shows the approach to the citadel of Cairo with the Muhammad Ali mosque in the background. http://www.nga.gov/mccrindle http://ow.ly/i/RQJ4
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In the fourth part of this five-part podcast series on Miró, recorded during a symposium held on June 1 and 2 in honor of the exhibition "Joan Miró: The Ladder of Escape," listen as artist Benet Rossell discusses the influence Miró had on h...is own work, as well as that of other Catalan artists.See More
This program was held in conjunction with the exhibition “Joan Miró: The Ladder of Escape,” on view at the Gallery from May 6 to August 12, 2012, and was coordinated with and supported by the Institut Ramon Llull.- Today in Gallery History: On August 27, 1937, John Russell Pope, architect of the West Building of the National Gallery of Art, died in Newport, Rhode Island. Pope also designed the National Archives, the Jefferson Memorial, and D.A.R. Cons...titution Hall in Washington, D.C.See More
Image: John Russell Pope, conceptual drawing for the National Gallery of Art, 1936. National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., Gallery Archives
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- Newman’s iconic “Stations of the Cross,” now on view in “In the Tower: Barnett Newman,” were the artist’s summation of the universal suffering of man rather than a specific narrative. See them in the East Building Tower through February 24. http://www.nga.gov/newman http://ow.ly/i/RQIj
- Today in Gallery History: On August 26, 1937, Andrew W. Mellon, the founder of the National Gallery of Art, died at the home of his daughter Ailsa Mellon Bruce in Southampton, Long Island. The architect who designed the building for the new...museum, John Russell Pope, died less than 24 hours later.See More
Image: Andrew Mellon in his apartment at 1785 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C., c. 1930. National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., Gallery Archives
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“Quite simply, one of the most perfect shows that has ever been installed in an American museum.” -- Robert Hughes (1938-2012). In memory of the great art critic and writer, here is an excerpt from his review of “Johannes Vermeer,” the his...tory-making Gallery exhibition of 1995-1996 that was beset by two federal government shutdowns: “Sight has taken over from narrative. Nothing really happens. Time has stopped. Yet for all his classicism, his tense repose and care with proportion and interval, Vermeer can be a theatrical painter. It’s just that the theatricality is cooled down by being shifted from people to props, leaving the peace of the figures undisturbed. It’s like the moment when a curtain rises to show an actor in reverie ignoring the audience.”See More
http://www.nga.gov/fcgi-bin/tinfo_f?object=1236- Sunday at 2:00 p.m., join museum educator Lorena Baines for her lecture “Creating the Legacy of George Bellows: The Artist and His Critics,” part of the Gallery’s summer lecture series “The American Century, 1900–2000.” Be sure to stop by the Bellows exhibition during your visit, on view in the West Building through October 8. Rent an audio tour for $5 and get 10% off in the shop at the end of the show.Sunday, August 26 at 2:00pm in EDT at National Gallery of Art
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