# National Gallery of Art | Talks

Messages, meanings, movements—how does art history help us understand our world? Join curators, historians, artists, musicians and filmmakers as they explore art and its histories in a search for our shared humanity. Download the programs, then visit us on the National Mall or at www.nga.gov, where you can explore many of the works of art mentioned.

- Howardena Pindell on Social Change Howardena Pindell discusses how social issues and the prospect of societal change impact her art and life. In her artistic practice, Pindell’s work reflects a fascination with gridded, serialized imagery and surface texture. She often employs lengthy, metaphorical processes of destruction/reconstruction. Even in her more politically charged work, Pindell reverts to these thematic focuses to address issues of homelessness, AIDS, war, genocide, sexism, xenophobia, and apartheid. Watch the lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zcw9iriBvU Learn more about Howardena Pindell’s work in the Gallery’s collection: https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.10097.html Pindell’s work “Free, White and 21" is featured in “The Double,” on view July 10–October 31, 2022: https://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2022/the-double-identity-and-difference-in-art-since-1900.html The Elson Lecture Series features distinguished contemporary artists who are represented in the Gallery's permanent collection. The Honorable and Mrs. Edward E. Elson generously endowed this series in 1992. Find out more about the Elson Lecture Series on our website: https://www.nga.gov/audio-video/elson.html Still haven’t subscribed to our YouTube channels?    National Gallery of Art ►►https://www.youtube.com/NationalGalleryofArtUS   National Gallery of Art Talks ►►https://www.youtube.com/NationalGalleryofArtTalks 
- John Wilmerding Symposium on American Art and Community Celebration 2022: Afro-Atlantic Histories, Session III: “Blackness is not peripheral to the American project; it is the foundation” Clint Smith, Renée Stout, and Hank Willis Thomas present on the role of history and memory in shaping American culture and identity. This is the third talk of the three-part series "John Wilmerding Symposium on American Art: Afro-Atlantic Histories," which gathers literary and visual artists to reflect on how art responds to and shapes both official and overlooked narratives wrought by the transatlantic slave trade and its legacies. Watch the entire video by Hank Willis Thomas titled “A Person is More Important Than Anything Else...,” commissioned by NY Live Arts for the Year of James Baldwin: https://hankwillisthomas.com/WORKS/Video/2 Watch the lecture: https://youtu.be/oM6_4MmmzJU
- John Wilmerding Symposium on American Art and Community Celebration 2022: Afro-Atlantic Histories, Session II: “I built this altar for them”: Mining the Archives to Uplift Untold Stories Erica Buddington, Nona Faustine, and Honorée Fanonne Jeffers present archival research–based practices that create and uplift missing narratives. This is the second talk of the three-part series "John Wilmerding Symposium on American Art: Afro-Atlantic Histories," which gathers literary and visual artists to reflect on how art responds to and shapes both official and overlooked narratives wrought by the transatlantic slave trade and its legacies. Watch the video: https://youtu.be/36aA_Mg7IZA
- John Wilmerding Symposium on American Art and Community Celebration 2022: Afro-Atlantic Histories, Session I: “the afterlife of slavery” Artists Rosana Paulino and Cameron Rowland explore the lasting legacy of slavery in their works of art. This is the first talk of the three-part series "John Wilmerding Symposium on American Art: Afro-Atlantic Histories," which gathers literary and visual artists to reflect on how art responds to and shapes both official and overlooked narratives wrought by the transatlantic slave trade and its legacies. Watch the lecture: https://youtu.be/5n90V4Acg_w
- Season 2, Episode 8: Sonia De Los Santos and Auguste Renoir’s “Young Spanish Woman with a Guitar” Guitarist Sonia De Los Santos hails from Mexico, where as a child she was exposed to different musical influences. In Auguste Renoir’s “Young Spanish Woman with a Guitar,” De Los Santos sees echoes of her younger self. Her song “Sueña” is an ode to dreams.  Still haven’t subscribed to our YouTube channels? National Gallery of Art ►►https://www.youtube.com/NationalGalleryofArtUS National Gallery of Art | Talks ►►https://www.youtube.com/NationalGalleryofArtTalks
- Season 2, Episode 7: Maria Schneider and George Bellows’s “The Lone Tenement” Maria Schneider composed “Bulería, Soleá y Rumba” in the wake of a cancer diagnosis. Inspired by American artists such as Robert Henri and George Bellows, Schneider discusses “art for life’s sake” that tells a story of people—like the evocative figures in Bellows’s The Lone Tenement. Still haven’t subscribed to our YouTube channels? National Gallery of Art ►►https://www.youtube.com/NationalGalleryofArtUS National Gallery of Art | Talks ►►https://www.youtube.com/NationalGalleryofArtTalks
- Season 2: Episode 6: Delfeayo Marsalis and Hawkins Bolden’s “Untitled” This work reminds jazz trombonist Delfeayo Marsalis of the proud, hard-working generations that raised him. A history of struggle may suggest the minor key, but Marsalis ultimately chose upbeat music to celebrate those who fought and made it work. Still haven’t subscribed to our YouTube channels? National Gallery of Art ►►https://www.youtube.com/NationalGalleryofArtUS National Gallery of Art | Talks ►►https://www.youtube.com/NationalGalleryofArtTalks
- Season 2: Episode 5: Peter Sheppard Skærved and Hieronymus Bosch’s “Death and the Miser” Violinist Peter Sheppard Skærved and National Gallery director Kaywin Feldman discuss Hieronymus Bosch’s “Death and the Miser” and its symbolism of contrast: light and dark, life and death. Skærved plays a 17th-century violin sonatina that echoes similar contrasts of sensuality and fatality, beauty and mortality. Still haven’t subscribed to our YouTube channels? National Gallery of Art ►►https://www.youtube.com/NationalGalleryofArtUS National Gallery of Art | Talks ►►https://www.youtube.com/NationalGalleryofArtTalks
- Season 2, Episode 4: Daniel Ho and Thomas Cole’s Voyage of Life series Musician Daniel Ho spent much of his childhood on the water, so he relates to Thomas Cole’s river paintings. Ho responds to Voyage of Life with an original suite. Starting with simple harmonies to represent childhood, he gradually introduces complexity.  Find full transcript and more information about this episode at https://www.nga.gov/music-programs/podcasts/daniel-ho-thomas-cole-voyage-life-series.html Still haven’t subscribed to our YouTube channels? National Gallery of Art ►►https://www.youtube.com/NationalGalleryofArtUS National Gallery of Art | Talks ►►https://www.youtube.com/NationalGalleryofArtTalks
- Season 2, Episode 3: Sa-Roc and Margaret Burroughs’s Sleeping Boy Rapper Sa-Roc’s music speaks to different aspects of Black experience, including the vulnerability of many Black kids—similar to the boy in Margaret Burroughs’s linocut, who hides himself. Her song “Forever” invites listeners not to hide, but to shine and share their “inner light” with the world. Find full transcript and more information about this episode at https://www.nga.gov/music-programs/podcasts/sa-roc-margaret-burroughs-sleeping-boy.html Still haven’t subscribed to our YouTube channels? National Gallery of Art ►►https://www.youtube.com/NationalGalleryofArtUS National Gallery of Art | Talks ►►https://www.youtube.com/NationalGalleryofArtTalks
- Season 2: Episode 2: Jenny Scheinman and El Greco’s "Laocoön" In “Sand Dipper,” jazz violinist Jenny Scheinman creates an abstract and overwhelming world. This music, Scheinman says, sounds how El Greco’s painting looks. And it feels like the question on Laocoön’s face as he looks up for the last time. Still haven’t subscribed to our YouTube channels? National Gallery of Art ►►https://www.youtube.com/NationalGalleryofArtUS National Gallery of Art | Talks ►►https://www.youtube.com/NationalGalleryofArtTalks
- Season 2: Episode 1: Dom Flemons and Marc Chagall’s "Orphée" Orphée depicts many tragedies, but songwriter Dom Flemons finds the joy in it: it resolves in the beautiful scene of two lovers embracing. Flemons pairs it with the tranquil “Blue Butterfly.” The instrumental song helps the emotional weight sink in. Still haven’t subscribed to our YouTube channels? National Gallery of Art ►►https://www.youtube.com/NationalGalleryofArtUS National Gallery of Art | Talks ►►https://www.youtube.com/NationalGalleryofArtTalks
- American University’s Feminist Art History Conference 2021: Feminist Issues in Art Museums The final session of American University’s Feminist Art History Conference, cohosted by the National Gallery, brings together distinguished curators to discuss contemporary issues in museum practice. Lauren Haynes, Patsy R. and Raymond D. Nasher Senior Curator of Contemporary Art, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University; Catherine Morris, Sackler Senior Curator for the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum; Asma Naeem, chief curator of the Baltimore Museum of Art; Christine Sciacca, associate curator, European art 300–1400 CE, Walters Art Museum; and Christina Yu Yu, Matsutaro Shoriki Chair, Art of Asia, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Moderated by Mikka Gee Conway, chief, diversity, inclusion, and belonging officer and EEO director, National Gallery of Art. Held in collaboration with the National Gallery’s John Wilmerding Symposium on America Art and the traveling exhibition Alma W. Thomas: Everything is Beautiful. In 1952, at age sixty-one, Thomas enrolled in graduate-level art history and painting coursework at American University to pursue “creative painting.” American University offers the Alma Thomas Award to an outstanding student studying painting. For the Feminist Art History Conference, Melanee Harvey will chair a session titled ACTIVISM: MAKING SPACE and Jonathan Frederick Walz will present a lecture titled "Alma W. Thomas’s Moving Pictures." Celebrate Alma W. Thomas's Legacy: https://www.nga.gov/learn/adults/john-wilmerding-symposium-community-celebration-alma-thomas.html Still haven’t subscribed to our YouTube channels?    National Gallery of Art ►►https://www.youtube.com/NationalGalleryofArtUS  National Gallery of Art | Talks ►►https://www.youtube.com/NationalGalleryofArtTalks
- John Wilmerding Symposium on American Art and Community Celebration 2021:  Session III: The Nation’s Capital in the Time of Alma Thomas Presentations on Thomas’s aesthetic and social environment by Melanee Harvey, Margie Jervis, Marya McQuirter, and Thaïsa Way, followed with discussion moderated by Charles Brock. Melanee Harvey, assistant professor and coordinator of art history, Howard University, Alma W. Thomas: Everything is Beautiful catalog contributor, and American University Feminist Art History Conference session chair; Margie Jervis, artist and scenic designer, Creative Cauldron of Falls Church; Marya McQuirter, independent researcher, writer, curator, and scholar, faculty member, department of history and director of the Public History Collaborative (PHC) at the University of Arizona, with a joint appointment at the University Libraries, curator of the dc1968 project, author of the African American Heritage Trail Guide, Washington, DC; and Thaïsa Way, program director of garden and landscape studies, Dumbarton Oaks. Moderated by Charles Brock, associate curator of American and British paintings, National Gallery of Art. Celebrate Alma W. Thomas's Legacy: https://www.nga.gov/learn/adults/john-wilmerding-symposium-community-celebration-alma-thomas.html Still haven’t subscribed to our YouTube channels?    National Gallery of Art ►►https://www.youtube.com/NationalGalleryofArtUS  National Gallery of Art | Talks ►►https://www.youtube.com/NationalGalleryofArtTalks
- John Wilmerding Symposium on American Art and Community Celebration 2021:  Session II: Alma Thomas’s Studio Practice and DC Cultural Institutions Presentations on Thomas’s studio art training and involvement with galleries, museums, and universities by Renee Maurer, Nell Irvin Painter, and Rebecca VanDiver, followed with discussion moderated by Steven Nelson Renee Maurer, associate curator, The Phillips Collection, and coordinating curator for Alma W. Thomas: Everything is Beautiful; Nell Irvin Painter, artist, Edwards Professor of American History Emerita, Princeton University, and Alma W. Thomas: Everything is Beautiful catalog contributor; and Rebecca VanDiver, assistant professor of African American art, Dean's Faculty Fellow (2019–2021), Mellon Faculty Fellow in Digital Humanities (2020–2021), Vanderbilt University, and Alma W. Thomas: Everything is Beautiful catalog contributor. Moderated by Steven Nelson, dean, the Center (Center for the Advanced Study in the Visual Arts), National Gallery of Art. Celebrate Alma W. Thomas's Legacy: https://www.nga.gov/learn/adults/john-wilmerding-symposium-community-celebration-alma-thomas.html Still haven’t subscribed to our YouTube channels?    National Gallery of Art ►►https://www.youtube.com/NationalGalleryofArtUS  National Gallery of Art | Talks ►►https://www.youtube.com/NationalGalleryofArtTalks
- John Wilmerding Symposium on American Art and Community Celebration 2021: Session I: An Evening Celebration of Alma Thomas Presentations on Thomas’s studio art training and involvement with galleries, museums, and universities by Renee Maurer, Nell Irvin Painter, and Rebecca VanDiver, followed with discussion moderated by Steven Nelson Renee Maurer, associate curator, The Phillips Collection, and coordinating curator for Alma W. Thomas: Everything is Beautiful; Nell Irvin Painter, artist, Edwards Professor of American History Emerita, Princeton University, and Alma W. Thomas: Everything is Beautiful catalog contributor; and Rebecca VanDiver, assistant professor of African American art, Dean's Faculty Fellow (2019–2021), Mellon Faculty Fellow in Digital Humanities (2020–2021), Vanderbilt University, and Alma W. Thomas: Everything is Beautiful catalog contributor. Moderated by Steven Nelson, dean, the Center (Center for the Advanced Study in the Visual Arts), National Gallery of Art. Celebrate Alma W. Thomas's Legacy: https://www.nga.gov/learn/adults/john-wilmerding-symposium-community-celebration-alma-thomas.html Still haven’t subscribed to our YouTube channels?    National Gallery of Art ►►https://www.youtube.com/NationalGalleryofArtUS  National Gallery of Art | Talks ►►https://www.youtube.com/NationalGalleryofArtTalks
- John Wilmerding Symposium on American Art and Community Celebration 2021: Alma W. Thomas: Everything is Beautiful: The Infiniteness of Alma Thomas Elizabeth Alexander, poet, educator, memoirist, scholar, cultural advocate, and president of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and Thelma Golden, director and chief curator of The Studio Museum in Harlem, discuss their connections to Thomas’s life and work. This conversation was filmed at Michael Rosenfeld Gallery while Alternative Worlds, a group exhibition featuring the work of Alma Thomas, was on view. Celebrate Alma W. Thomas's Legacy https://www.nga.gov/learn/adults/john-wilmerding-symposium-community-celebration-alma-thomas.html Still haven’t subscribed to our YouTube channels?    National Gallery of Art ►►https://www.youtube.com/NationalGalleryofArtUS  National Gallery of Art | Talks ►►https://www.youtube.com/NationalGalleryofArtTalks
- Elson Lecture 2021: Mark Bradford Working at the intersection of event and art, Mark Bradford explores social and political structures through large-scale abstract paintings created out of layered paper. Bradford’s reimagining of modernist art explores how historical analysis and research affect form. Discover how his map-like, multilayered paper collages provide an opportunity to think about power, representation, and marginalized communities. Learn more about Bradford’s work Legendary in the National Gallery of Art collection: https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-ob... Still haven’t subscribed to our YouTube channels? National Gallery of Art ►►https://www.youtube.com/NationalGalle... National Gallery of Art | Talks ►►https://www.youtube.com/NationalGalle...
- Rajiv Vaidya Memorial Lecture 2021: Josephine Baker as a “Rememory” of Global Black Cinema? In her 2021 Rajiv Vaidya Memorial Lecture, Terri Simone Francis reflects on Josephine Baker’s influence within the visual arts and theorizes Baker as both an international cultural figure and an African American film pioneer. Recent restorations of her films of the 1920s and 1930s have allowed her work to be seen in the context of recent cinema and media, indeed almost as recent cinema and media. In Francis’s view Baker exemplifies what author Toni Morrison called a “rememory”—a remembered memory. Francis’s study of Baker addresses absences and silences in film history, and she draws upon Morrison’s concept of rememory and Baker’s career to reconstruct the global beginnings of Black cinema. Ultimately, Francis is concerned with the film histories of the future, in which Black cinema history will be full of new unknowns, and believes that Baker’s authorship can inform new vocabularies of film thinking, film writing, and film feeling.
- Wyeth Lecture in American Art 2021: Prioritizing Indigenous Communities and Voices: Curating in This Time: Patricia Marroquin Norby, The Metropolitan Museum of Art In this lecture, released on December 3, 2021, Patricia Marroquin Norby (Purépecha), associate curator of Native American art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (the Met), discusses her recent research and curatorial practices that affirm Indigenous representations. Dr. Norby shares her vision for and approaches to collecting, presenting, and interpreting Native American art at the Met and beyond.
- Bonus Episode: Episode 11: Celeste Headlee and James Van Der Zee’s “Couple, Harlem” In this photograph, journalist and musician Celeste Headlee hears “Lenox Avenue,” a suite her grandfather William Grant Still named after Harlem’s main street. This portrait captures the pride of Black Americans achieving success during the Harlem Renaissance despite systemic injustice. Find full transcripts and more information about this episode at https://www.nga.gov/music-programs/podcasts.html. Subscribe directly to Sound Thoughts on Art from the National Gallery of Art on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast app https://feeds.megaphone.fm/NGAT6207729686.  Image credit: James Van Der Zee, Couple, Harlem, 1932, printed 1974, gelatin silver print, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Alfred H. Moses and Fern M. Schad Fund, ©1969 Van Der Zee.
- Sydney J. Freedberg Lecture on Italian Art 2021: “More perfect and excellent than men” In this lecture, released on November 5, 2021, Babette Bohn of Texas Christian University discusses women artists in early modern Italy. Early modern Bologna was exceptional for its many talented women artists. Thanks to a long-standing tradition of honoring accomplished women, several attentive artistic biographers, strong local interest in collecting women’s work, and permissive attitudes toward women studying with male artists who were not family members, Bologna was home to more women artists than any other city in early modern Italy. Bolognese women artists were unusual not only for their large numbers but also for their varied specializations and frequent public success. They painted altarpieces, nudes, mythologies, allegories, portraits, and self-portraits, creating sculptures, drawings, prints, embroidery, and paintings. This lecture challenges some common assumptions about women artists, suggesting productive approaches for future research. This is the twenty-fifth annual lecture offered by the National Gallery of Art in this endowed series named after Sydney J. Freedberg (1914–1997), the great specialist of Italian art.
- The National Gallery's New YouTube Channel Messages, meanings, movements—how does art history help us understand our world? Join curators, historians, artists, musicians, and filmmakers as they explore art and its histories in a search for our shared humanity. Subscrible to National Gallery of Art | Talks ►►https://bit.ly/3mfNeiO
- Christian McBride and Roy DeCarava’s “David” In an improvised musical conversation, jazz bassist Christian McBride introduces himself to David. Connecting over McBride’s walking bass line, they meet David’s friends, splash by the fire hydrant, play stickball. Through David, McBride recalls his own childlike innocence. Find full transcripts and more information about this episode at https://www.nga.gov/music-programs/podcasts/christian-mcbride-roy-decarava-david.html.Subscribe directly to Sound Thoughts on Art from the National Gallery of Art on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast app
- The 70th A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: Contact: Art and the Pull of Print, Part 6: Alienation Jennifer L. Roberts, Elizabeth Cary Agassiz Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University. In this six-part lecture series titled Contact: Art and the Pull of Print, Roberts will focus on printmaking as an art of physical contact, involving transfer under pressure between surfaces—a direct touch that can evoke multiple forms of intimacy. And yet it is simultaneously an art of estrangement: it requires the deferral, displacement, and distribution of artistic agency, and it trades in reversal and inversion. In this sixth and final lecture, “Alienation,” premiered on the National Gallery’s website on May 30, 2021, Roberts explores the intricate and often counterintuitive effort of creating matrices for printing (woodblocks, copperplates, etc.) has been a form of invisible labor for centuries. How do we think about the relationship between the time and skill put into the matric and the value of the image in generates? (Or: where does all the time go?) This final lecture investigates the misregistration of time in print, especially in terms of the conflicts—and convergences—between slow and fast media that are frequently staged in contemporary printmaking.
- The 70th A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: Contact: Art and the Pull of Print, Part 5: Interference Jennifer L. Roberts, Elizabeth Cary Agassiz Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University. In this six-part lecture series titled Contact: Art and the Pull of Print, Roberts focuses on printmaking as an art of physical contact, involving transfer under pressure between surfaces—a direct touch that can evoke multiple forms of intimacy. And yet it is simultaneously an art of estrangement: it requires the deferral, displacement, and distribution of artistic agency, and it trades in reversal and inversion. In this fifth lecture, “Interference,” premiered on the National Gallery’s website on May 23, 2021, Roberts explores how the layering of images in printmaking, especially when grids and regular linework are involved, often results in the emergence of interference or moiré patterns. While printers usually work hard to keep these disruptive eruptions at bay, some artists have cultivated them, allowing unruly patterns to emerge from the combination of seemingly rational image layers. Moiré patterns also bring printmaking into conversation with the sound arts, which are built on the same waves, frequencies, and beats that are used to describe print interference.
- Daniel Bernard Roumain and "American Gothic" Composer Daniel Bernard Roumain works with performance poet Lady Caress to respond to this iconic photograph with a combination of music and poetry. In the ebb and flow of his composition, DBR hopes to capture pain, legacy, enduring hope—and the rhythm of the subject’s life.Find full transcripts and more information about this episode at https://www.nga.gov/music-programs/podcasts/daniel-bernard-roumain-american-gothic.html.Subscribe directly to Sound Thoughts on Art from the National Gallery of Art on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast app
- The 70th A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: Contact: Art and the Pull of Print, Part 4: Strain
- Nathalie Joachim and Carrie Mae Weems’s "May Flowers" Composer Nathalie Joachim sees her childhood memories in May Flowers. The photograph also evokes the uniquely spiritual experience of recording a church choir in her family’s Haitian village. Joachim has lovingly woven their song into her composition. Find full transcripts and more information about this episode at https://www.nga.gov/music-programs/podcasts/nathalie-joachim-carrie-mae-weems-may-flowers.html.Subscribe directly to Sound Thoughts on Art from the National Gallery of Art on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast app
- Bora Yoon and "Ommah" Composer and multi-instrumentalist Bora Yoon considers whether we carry the sounds and memories of our people within us. In her response to Nam June Paik’s video sculpture, she brings together both traditional Korean instruments and eclectic electronic music.Find full transcripts and more information about this episode at https://www.nga.gov/music-programs/podcasts/bora-yoon-and-ommah.html.Subscribe directly to Sound Thoughts on Art from the National Gallery of Art on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast app
- The 70th A. W. Mellon Lectures: Contact: Art and the Pull of Print, Part 3: Separation
- The 70th A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: Contact: Art and the Pull of Print, Part 2: Reversal
- Rafiq Bhatia and James Turrell’s "New Light" Musician Rafiq Bhatia feels compelled to capture his improvisations—fleeting moments of sound—in recordings. Like sound, light is transient. But James Turrell’s works, which inspired Bhatia’s composition, contain and present light, allowing us to forge a deeper relationship with an ephemeral substance. Find full transcripts and more information about this episode at https://www.nga.gov/music-programs/podcasts/rafiq-bhatia-james-turrell-new-light.html.Subscribe directly to Sound Thoughts on Art from the National Gallery of Art on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast app
- Lara Downes and "Tomorrow I May Be Far Away" For classical pianist and activist Lara Downes, Romare Bearden’s collage is a puzzle full of questions and unfinished business. In response, she brings together different musical sources, overlaying sounds to create both harmony and tension.Find full transcripts and more information about this episode at https://www.nga.gov/music-programs/podcasts/lara-downes-and-tomorrow-i-may-be-far-away.html. Subscribe directly to Sound Thoughts on Art from the National Gallery of Art on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast app
- The 70th A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: Contact: Art and the Pull of Print, Part 1: Pressure 
- Jasiri X and Kerry James Marshall’s "Untitled (Man)" Hip-hop artist Jasiri X looks at Kerry James Marshall’s woodcut almost like he’s looking into a mirror. It captures the experience of a Black man: resilient but restrained from being his authentic self. Jasiri responds to the work through two songs that reflect on his internal struggle.Find full transcripts and more information about this episode at https://www.nga.gov/music-programs/podcasts/jasiri-x-untitled-man.html. Subscribe directly to Sound Thoughts on Art from the National Gallery of Art on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast app
- Vijay Iyer and I.M. Pei’s "National Gallery of Art, East Building" Composer-pianist Vijay Iyer describes the East Building as a work of art that does what music does: invites you in—to inhabit, explore, and be among others. He responds with pieces that balance pattern and structure with leaving room to wander.Find full transcripts and more information about this episode at Find full transcripts and more information about this episode at https://www.nga.gov/music-programs/podcasts/vijay-iyer-im-pei-east-building.html. Subscribe directly to Sound Thoughts on Art from the National Gallery of Art on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast app
- Kamala Sankaram and Mark Rothko’s "Untitled" When her sister was dying, composer Kamala Sankaram was drawn to Mark Rothko’s painting: it both captured her grief and calmed her. That experience influenced Sankaram’s approach to creating a musical score, which she shares in this episode. Find full transcripts and more information about this episode at https://www.nga.gov/music-programs/podcasts/kamala-sankaram-mark-rothko.html. Subscribe directly to Sound Thoughts on Art from the National Gallery of Art on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast app.
- Emily Wells and David Wojnarowicz’s "Untitled (Falling Buffalos)" Composer/producer Emily Wells sees us as the buffalo: frozen before downfall, but still alive—which is why she includes so much breath in her song. Wells, whose work deals with the climate crisis, looks to David Wojnarowicz’s AIDS activism for lessons.  Find full transcripts and more information about this episode at https://www.nga.gov/music-programs/podcasts/emily-wells-david-wojnarowicz.html. Subscribe directly to Sound Thoughts on Art from the National Gallery of Art on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast app.
- Diamonstein-Spielvogel Lecture Series: Stanley Nelson and Marcia Smith Stanley Nelson, documentary filmmaker and cofounder, Firelight Media, and Marcia Smith, writer, film producer, president and cofounder, Firelight Media In 2000, Stanley Nelson and Marcia Smith founded Firelight Media, a nonprofit production company dedicated to using historical film to advance contemporary social justice causes. Through initiatives like the flagship Documentary Lab, Firelight Media’s programming has expanded to mentor, inspire, and train a new generation of diverse young filmmakers committed to elevating underrepresented stories. Firelight also builds impact campaigns to connect documentaries to audiences and social justice advocates. Under Smith’s leadership, Firelight received a MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions in 2016. Nelson is a documentary filmmaker whose work combines compelling narratives with rich and deeply researched historical detail, shining new light on both familiar and underexplored aspects of the American past. In addition to honors for individual films, Nelson and his body of work have garnered every major award in the industry, such as the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (2002), the National Humanities Medal (2013), and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (2016). As a writer and film producer, Smith has been the recipient of a Primetime Emmy nomination for writing (2003), the Writers Guild Award for best nonfiction writing (2004), the Muse Award for New York Women in Film and Television (2016), and a Luminary Award from BlackStar Film Festival (2019), among others. In this conversation recorded on September 24, 2020, as part of the Diamonstein-Spielvogel Lecture Series, Nelson and Smith discuss their own mentors and influences, their collaborative practice, and how Firelight has become a premier destination for nonfiction cinema by and about communities of color.
- "Sound Thoughts on Art" trailer Hosted by musician and journalist Celeste Headlee, each episode focuses on a work of art in the National Gallery’s collection. Learn about the work and its context and hear a musician respond to that work through sound, creating a dialogue between visual art and music. Sound Thoughts on Art tells the stories of how we experience art and how it connects us.Find full transcripts and more information about this episode at https://www.nga.gov/music-programs/podcasts.html.
- Arnold Newman Lecture Series on Photography: Teju Cole and Fazal Sheikh
- “the artifice of justice” A Conversation with Reginald D. Betts, Candice C. Jones, and Richard Ross Reginald Dwayne Betts- poet and PhD in Law candidate, Yale Law School; Candice C. Jones, president and CEO, Public Welfare Foundation of Washington, DC; Richard Ross, artist and Distinguished Research Professor of Art at the University of California, Santa Barbara In a previously recorded conversation, artist Richard Ross; Candice C. Jones, president and CEO of Public Welfare Foundation; and poet and legal scholar Reginald Dwayne Betts discuss the role of the arts in eliciting, supporting, perhaps demanding social change. Together, as activists and artists, they unpack the complex interplay between art, institutions, and advocacy. An award-winning memoirist and poet, Betts has written extensively on the American legal and justice system, telling his own stories of injustice and bringing to light those of others. He conceptualized and brought to life—through a joint partnership with Yale Law School’s Justice Collaboratory and support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation—the Million Book Project, which will distribute a curated 500-book collection to 1,000 medium- and maximum-security prisons across every state. “the artifice of justice” is a phrase from Betts’s poem titled “When I Think of Tamir Rice While Driving,” published in Felon: poems. Prior to Jones’s work leading the Public Welfare Foundation, which aims to build a justice system that is community led, restorative, and racially just, she served as director of the Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice, pushing major reforms to reduce the number of youth in state custody. Jones, as a White House Fellow, created the strategy that restored access to Pell grants to youth and adults in correctional settings. Award-winning artist Ross created Juvenile-in-Justice, a collection of photographs, interviews, audio documents, and texts created over a dozen years, drawn from the lives of more than 1,000 incarcerated kids. The project humanizes the statistics about children in the justice system and tells their stories. Relying on their experiences, Betts, Jones, and Ross describe how art can facilitate change by shifting the imagination and enabling others to be understood anew. This program is made possible by the James D. and Kathryn K. Steele Fund for Photography.
- Elson Lecture Series 2020: Mary Kelly
- Rajiv Vaidya Memorial Lecture 2020: Julie Dash and the L.A. Rebellion: Architects of the Impossible
- The Sydney J. Freedberg Lecture on Italian Art 2020: Telling the Past Differently: Italian Renaissance Art in the Hands of the Beholder
- Reflections on the Collection: The Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professors at the National Gallery of Art: David Bomford on Édouard Manet’s The Railway (1873)
- John Wilmerding Symposium 2020, A Tribute to David C. Driskell: Part 6, Artist Conversation
- 2020 Summer Lecture Series: Staycation: Modern Masters of the French Riviera
- 2020 Summer Lecture Series: Staycation: Milan: A Tale of Two Cities
- Blurred Identities: The Art and Audience of Lynching Photography
- Black Opera as Architecture: A Conversation with Kimberly Drew, Alicia Hall Moran, and Imani Uzuri
- Local to Global: Teaching Critical Thinking through Art—the Gallery’s first Massive Open Online Course
- Reflections on the Collection: The Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professors at the National Gallery of Art: Thomas Kren on Giovanni d’Alemagna’s Saint Apollonia Destroys a Pagan Idol (c. 1442/1445)
- Remarks on the Dedication of the National Gallery of Art: Samuel H. Kress
- Remarks on the Dedication of the National Gallery of Art: Charles Evans Hughes
- Speech on the Dedication of the National Gallery of Art: Paul Mellon
- Reflections on the Collection: Cecilia Frosinini on Giotto’s Madonna and Child (c. 1310/1315)
- Cats in the National Gallery of Art's Permanent Collection
- The Easter Story in Art
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- Raphael and his Circle: Introductory Slide Overview
- Introduction to the Exhibition-Raphael and His Circle
- Coding Our Collection: The National Gallery of Art Datathon
- Introduction to the Exhibition—Degas at the Opéra
- Painting in the Open Air: A Conversation with Ann Lofquist
- The Moon in the Age of Photography
- Weather in Art: From Symbol to Science
- COMPACT ASSEMBLY
- Something, Anything, Everything, Nothing: Ambiguity, Meaning, and Experience
- Collecting European Landscape Sketches: An Introduction to Open-Air Painting in Europe, 1780–1870
- A Conversation with Richard Mosse
- Introduction to the Exhibition—Verrocchio: Sculptor and Painter of Renaissance Florence
- Photographing the Moon: An Evening with Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Curators, Part 3—Geology from Orbit: Robots, Cameras, and Photogeology
- Photographing the Moon: An Evening with Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Curators, Part 2—Through Astronaut Eyes
- Photographing the Moon: An Evening with Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Curators, Part 1—Mapping the Moon with Telescopes
- Space Still the Place―d.c. space Part II and Its Contemporaries: 1974–1991
- Introduction to the Exhibition—Alonso Berruguete: First Sculptor of Renaissance Spain
- Before the Kodak Girl: Women in Nineteenth-Century Photography
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- The Artist's Sketchbook: A Personal View
- Reflections on the Collection: Marc Fumaroli on Jean Honoré Fragonard’s Landscape Paintings
- Verrocchio and the Interplay between the Arts
- Art and Photography in the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, Part II
- Art and Photography in the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, Part I
- Verrocchio’s Medici Tombs: New Observations and Technical Analysis
- The Sydney J. Freedberg Lecture on Italian Art: Andrea Mantegna’s Stones, Caves, and Clouds
- Instructional Videos: Didactic Documentary for the Postmodern Era
- Collaborations and Investigations in Sound: Alex Braden and Emily Francisco in Conversation
- Cima da Conegliano and Venetian Landscape Painting
- Executed En Masse: Early Modern Portrait Prints at the National Gallery of Art
- The Living Legacy National Speaking Tour: David C. Driskell and Curlee R. Holton in Conversation
- Introduction to the Exhibition—The Touch of Color: Pastels at the National Gallery of Art
- Photography and Nation Building in the Nineteenth Century
- Reflections on the Collection: The Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professors at the National Gallery of Art: Antoinette Le Normand-Romain on Auguste Rodin, The Walking Man (L’Homme qui marche) (model 1878–1900, cast probably 1903)
- Fifteenth-Century Florentine and Tuscan Sculpture in the National Gallery of Art
- Celebrating the Old Master Collections of the National Gallery of Art: Dutch Art of the Golden Age
- The Role of Libraries in our Cultural Landscape
- Celebrating the Old Master Collections of the NGA: Masterpieces of American Furniture
- Celebrating the Old Master Collections of the National Gallery of Art: Central Italian Painting
- Celebrating the Old Master Collections of the National Gallery of Art: Venetian Painting, 1350–1800
- Celebrating the Old Master Collections of the National Gallery of Art: American Painting, 1700–1900
- Conversations with Artists: Oliver Lee Jackson
- The End of the Sixties: Kerry James Marshall’s “Mementos”
- 2019 Summer Sunday Lecture Series: Celebrating the Old Masters of the NGA: British Painting
- Celebrating the Old Master Collections of the National Gallery of Art: French Art of the 18th Century
- Celebrating the Old Master Collections of the National Gallery of Art: British Painting, 1700–1850
- American Pre-Raphaelitism through the Lens and on the Canvas
- FAPE 2019: Ken Burns and the American Story
- Two Writers on Art, Music, and Modality
- The Art and Literature of the Great War
- Photography from the Sunny Side of the Alps
- Augusta Savage: A Woman of Her Word
- Signed JV, but not by Vermeer: Jacobus Vrel’s “Young Woman in an Interior”
- I.M. Pei: A Celebration of His Life and Work
- The Sculpture of David Smith (1906–1965), Part 2
- The Sculpture of David Smith (1906–1965), Part 1
- Reflections on the Collection: The Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professors at the National Gallery of Art: Stephen Bann on Léopold Flameng after Rembrandt van Rijn, Portrait of a Man (Le Doreur) (1885)
- Mary Pinchot Meyer: Artist
- From the Cathedral to the Billiard Room: Tracing the History of a Medieval Stained Glass Window from the William A. Clark Collection
- The Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professors at the National Gallery of Art: Richard J. Powell
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- The Roles and Representations of Animals in Japanese Art and Culture, Part 7
- The Roles and Representations of Animals in Japanese Art and Culture, Part 6
- The Roles and Representations of Animals in Japanese Art and Culture, Part 5
- The Roles and Representations of Animals in Japanese Art and Culture, Part 4
- The Roles and Representations of Animals in Japanese Art and Culture, Part 3
- The Roles and Representations of Animals in Japanese Art and Culture, Part 2
- The Roles and Representations of Animals in Japanese Art and Culture, Part 1
- Shared Exploration: Music and the Visual Arts
- If I Survive: Frederick Douglass and Family in the Walter O. Evans Collection
- Tintoretto Lecture Series, Part 4—In Situ: Tintoretto in Venice
- Tintoretto Lecture Series, Part 3—Tintoretto Central: The Scuola Grande di San Rocco
- Tintoretto Lecture Series, Part 2—Tintoretto: The Early Work
- Tintoretto Lecture Series, Part 1—Tintoretto in Context: Framing Tintoretto: Sixteenth-Century Venetian Painting
- Introduction to the Exhibition—The Life of Animals in Japanese Art
- Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
- Model Citizens: Frances Benjamin Johnston at the Tuskegee Institute
- Washington Color School: Kenneth Victor Young
- Mastering Tradition: An Artist Awakening through Practicing the Past
- John Wilmerding Symposium on American Art 2019, Artists and American Communities: Part 11
- John Wilmerding Symposium on American Art 2019, Artists and American Communities: Part 10
- John Wilmerding Symposium on American Art 2019, Artists and American Communities: Part 9
- John Wilmerding Symposium on American Art 2019, Artists and American Communities: Part 8
- John Wilmerding Symposium on American Art 2019, Artists and American Communities: Part 7
- John Wilmerding Symposium on American Art 2019, Artists and American Communities: Part 6
- John Wilmerding Symposium on American Art 2019, Artists and American Communities: Part 5
- John Wilmerding Symposium on American Art 2019, Artists and American Communities: Part 4
- John Wilmerding Symposium on American Art 2019, Artists and American Communities: Part 3
- John Wilmerding Symposium on American Art 2019, Artists and American Communities: Part 2
- John Wilmerding Symposium on American Art 2019, Artists and American Communities: Part 1
- Oral History Interview with I. M. Pei
- Introduction to the Exhibition—Tintoretto: Artist of Renaissance Venice
- Reflections on the Collection: The Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professors at the National Gallery of Art: Nancy J. Troy on Piet Mondrian, Tableau No. IV: Lozenge Composition with Red, Gray, Blue, Yellow, and Black (c. 1924/1925)
- The 68th A. W. Mellon Lectures: End as Beginning: Chinese Art and Dynastic Time, Part 6
- Black Dreams at Sea: The Sardine Fisherman’s Funeral and An Opera of the World
- The 68th A. W. Mellon Lectures: End as Beginning: Chinese Art and Dynastic Time, Part 5
- Hip-Hop’s Great Day: Gordon Parks and a Legacy of Photographic Inspiration
- The 68th A. W. Mellon Lectures: End as Beginning: Chinese Art and Dynastic Time, Part 4
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- The Sixty-Eighth A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: End as Beginning: Chinese Art and Dynastic Time, Part 3: Conflicting Temporalities: Heaven’s Mandate and Its Antitheses
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- Rachel Whiteread Symposium, Part 3: A Conversation with Lynne Cooke and Cristina Iglesias
- Rachel Whiteread Symposium, Part 2: Three Halcyon Arts Lab Fellows Respond
- Rachel Whiteread Symposium, Part 1—Rachel Whiteread: Weathering, Patina, Time
- The Sixty-Eighth A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: End as Beginning: Chinese Art and Dynastic Time, Part 2: Reconfiguring the World: The First Emperor’s Art Projects
- The Sixty-Eighth A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: End as Beginning: Chinese Art and Dynastic Time, Part 1: The Emergence of Dynastic Time in Chinese Art
- The Art of Light: A Conversation with Charles Ross and James Meyer
- Pop without Pretense: Mass Media and the Art of James Castle
- Boutet de Monvel’s Jeanne d’Arc: The Corcoran Commission and Installation
- Boutet de Monvel’s Jeanne d’Arc: The Passion for All Things Post-Medieval: A Multimedia Perspective
- Boutet de Monvel’s Jeanne d’Arc: The Role of the Bibliophile in the French Medieval Aesthetic
- Boutet de Monvel’s Jeanne d’Arc: From Print to Paint
- Painting and Representation
- linn meyers: work
- Four Centuries of American Chairs
- Arnold Newman Lecture Series on Photography: Dawoud Bey
- The Christmas Story in Art
- Cataloging the Corcoran Collection: Highlights in the Department of Photographs
- The Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professors at the National Gallery of Art: Victor I. Stoichita
- John Edmonds
- Cataloging the Corcoran Collection: The Story of American Print Publishing
- Introduction to the Exhibition—Gordon Parks: The New Tide, Early Work 1940–1950
- Present Tense: Corot, Photography, and the Body
- Picturing Alexander Hamilton
- Reflections on the Collection: The Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professors at the National Gallery of Art: Carel van Tuyll van Serooskerken on Annibale and Agostino Carracci, River Landscapes (c. 1590/1595)
- The Sydney J. Freedberg Lecture on Italian Art: Against Titian
- Forty Years of Exhibitions: A Baker’s Dozen Memorable Shows
- The Longest Running Show: Small French Paintings from the Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection
- Introduction to the Exhibition: The Chiaroscuro Woodcut in Renaissance Italy
- Caitlin Teal Price
- Modern Sculpture in the National Gallery
- Minimalism
- Reflecting on Collecting: Recent Acquisitions of Modern Art
- Pop Art
- The Washington D.C. Color School
- Stanley Kubrick: The Irony of Feeling
- Introduction to the Exhibition—Rachel Whiteread
- Introduction to the Exhibition—Corot: Women
- Post-World War II European Art
- Abstract Expressionism
- Cézanne Portraits in Context
- Abstraction and Purity
- Ingmar Bergman and the Visual Arts
- Dada and Surrealism
- German and Austrian Expressionism
- Avant-Garde to Underground: Outliers and Film
- Monet at Vétheuil
- Early Picasso and Cubism
- Henri Matisse and Fauvism
- American Art, 1900–1950: Henri, Stieglitz and Their Circles
- Amedeo Modigliani (1884–1920)
- Extending Tradition: French Painting, 1890–1940
- German Expressionism and Degenerate Art
- Anne Charlotte Robertson: Selections from “Five Year Diary”
- Maruja Mallo’s “Sewers and Belfries” (c. 1929-1932)
- Collecting for the Nation: The 75th Anniversary of the Lessing J. Rosenwald Gift
- Water, Wind, and Waves: Marine Paintings from the Dutch Golden Age
- Film in the Sculptural Field
- The Description of the Sacred Mountain of La Verna
- Introduction to the Exhibition—Sharing Images: Renaissance Prints into Maiolica and Bronze
- Abstraction in Reverse: A Conversation with Alexander Alberro and James Meyer
- The Evidence of Things Seen and Unseen
- Cézanne's Portraits: Doubt, Certainty, and Painting in Series
- FAPE 2018: Why Is Art Necessary?
- The East Building at Forty: Reflections from Curators Past and Present
- Crossing Paths
- Differing, Drawn: A Conversation with Lynne Cooke and Darby English
- History, Photography, and Race in the South: From the Civil War to Now, Part 5
- History, Photography, and Race in the South: From the Civil War to Now Part 4
- History, Photography, and Race in the South: From the Civil War to Now Part 3
- History, Photography, and Race in the South: From the Civil War to Now Part 2
- History, Photography, and Race in the South: From the Civil War to Now Part 1
- Claude Monet’s “The Artist’s Garden at Vétheuil”—Two Masterworks Reunited, Part III: In Context
- Claude Monet’s “The Artist’s Garden at Vétheuil”—2 Masterworks Reunited, Part II: Conservator’s Take
- Claude Monet’s “The Artist's Garden at Vétheuil”—Two Masterworks Reunited, Part I: Curators’ Take
- The Sixty-Seventh A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: Positive Barbarism: Brutal Aesthetics in the Postwar Period, Part 6: Claes Oldenburg and His Ray Guns
- The Sixty-Seventh A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: Positive Barbarism: Brutal Aesthetics in the Postwar Period, Part 5: Eduardo Paolozzi and His Hollow Gods
- The Sixty-Seventh A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: Positive Barbarism: Brutal Aesthetics in the Postwar Period, Part 4: Asger Jorn and His Creatures
- The Sixty-Seventh A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: Positive Barbarism: Brutal Aesthetics in the Postwar Period, Part 3: Georges Bataille and His Caves
- The Sixty-Seventh A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: Positive Barbarism: Brutal Aesthetics in the Postwar Period, Part 2: Jean Dubuffet and His Brutes
- The Sixty-Seventh A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: Positive Barbarism: Brutal Aesthetics in the Postwar Period, Part 1: Walter Benjamin and His Barbarians
- Draping Michelangelo: Francesco Mochi, Gianlorenzo Bernini, and the Birth of Baroque Sculpture
- Mathematics and the Art of M. C. Escher
- The Art of the Harpsichord: Music and Painting
- John Wilmerding Symposium on American Art 2018, Part 12: Bodies of Work
- John Wilmerding Symposium on American Art 2018, Part 11: Answering the Body’s Question
- John Wilmerding Symposium on American Art 2018, Part 10: Dorothea Lange’s Photographs
- John Wilmerding Symposium on American Art 2018, Part 9: Reshaping the Conversation
- John Wilmerding Symposium on American Art 2018, Part 8: Invitation: Audience Engagement
- John Wilmerding Symposium on American Art 2018, Part 7: “You put your self in his place”: Bellows
- John Wilmerding Symposium on American Art 2018, Part 6: Modernism, Race, and Bellows at the NGA
- John Wilmerding Symposium on American Art 2018, Part 5: W. W. Corcoran, Lord Ward, and “Greek Slave”
- John Wilmerding Symposium on American Art 2018, Part 4: Frederick Douglass, “The Greek Slave”
- John Wilmerding Symposium on American Art 2018, Part 3: Politics and Pageantry: “The Greek Slave"
- John Wilmerding Symposium on American Art 2018, Part 2 Inspiring Visits with Archibald Motley Jr.
- John Wilmerding Symposium on American Art 2018, Part 1: Women in White
- In the Tower: Anne Truitt, Symposium Part IV—Enough Space, Enough Color: Anne Truitt
- In the Tower: Anne Truitt, Symposium Part III—Anne Truitt, Working—A Remembrance
- In the Tower: Anne Truitt, Symposium Part II—Anne Truitt's Material Imagination
- In the Tower: Anne Truitt, Symposium Part I—Landmarks: Anne Truitt and History
- Parrots and People in Dutch Genre Paintings: A Discussion w/ Dr. Irene Pepperberg
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- The Sisterhood of the Traveling Palette: Rebecca Strand and Georgia O’Keeffe in New Mexico
- Introduction to the Exhibition—Cézanne Portraits
- Carrie Mae Weems: Kitchen Table Series
- Seventy-Fifth Birthday Tribute to Curtis Mayfield
- Introduction to the Exhibition-Michel Sittow: Estonian Painter at the Courts of Renaissance Europe
- Introduction to the Exhibition-Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings
- Suffering, Struggle, Survival: The Activism, Artistry, and Authorship of Frederick Douglass
- Innovation, Competition, and Fine Painting Technique: Marketing High-Life Style in the Dutch 17th C
- New Technical Research on the Tomb of Mary of Burgundy
- Pictures in Paintings
- Dutch burghers and their wine: Nary a sour grape
- Striking the Right Chord: Seeing Music in Dutch Genre Painting
- Virtuous Rivalry in the Age of Vermeer
- Photorealist Painting: A Modern History of Surfaces
- Introduction to the Exhibition-Outliers and American Vanguard Art
- Saul Steinberg: Outsider Extraordinaire
- Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting: New Insights and Discoveries
- Picnic Ware Fit for a Feast
- The Art of Working with Visitors with Memory Loss: A New Gallery Program
- Frederick Douglass and the Visual Arts in Washington, DC
- A Century Gone By: American Art and the First World War
- Time and Temporality in Seventeenth-Century Genre Painting
- More than Mimicry: The Parrot in Dutch Genre Painting
- Fashion à la Figaro: Spanish Style on the French Stage
- Anne Truitt in Washington: A Conversation with James Meyer and Alexandra Truitt
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- Edgar Degas (1834–1917): A Centenary Tribute, Part 7—Authorship and Evidence
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- The Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professors at the National Gallery of Art: Kathleen A. Foster
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- Edgar Degas (1834–1917): A Centenary Tribute, Part 6—Issues of Finish and Process
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- Edgar Degas (1834–1917): A Centenary Tribute, Part 4—Drawing on Plate and Stone: Degas and Printmaking
- Edgar Degas (1834–1917): A Centenary Tribute, Part 3—An Interview with Degas
- The Vermeer Phenomenon, Part II
- The Vermeer Phenomenon, Part I
- Edgar Degas (1834–1917): A Centenary Tribute, Part 2—Exploring Degas’s Process in "Ballet Scene"
- Introduction to the Exhibition—Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting: Inspiration and Rivalry
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- Introduction to the Exhibition—Fragonard: The Fantasy Figures
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- Wyeth Foundation for American Art Symposium: Artists Panel: The African American Art World in Twentieth-Century Washington, DC
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- When No One Liked Jacques Louis David
- Introduction to the Exhibition—America Collects Eighteenth-Century French Painting
- John Moran and Art Photography in America: 1855–1875
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- The Sixty-Sixth A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: The Forest: America in the 1830s, Part 5: Emerson, Raphael, and Light Filtering through Trees
- The Sixty-Sixth A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: The Forest: America in the 1830s, Part 4: Animals Are Where They Are
- The Sixty-Sixth A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: The Forest: America in the 1830s, Part 3: The Aesthetics of Superstition
- The Sixty-Sixth A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: The Forest: America in the 1830s, Part 2: The Tavern to the Traveler: On the Appearance of John Quidor’s Art
- The Sixty-Sixth A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: The Forest: America in the 1830s, Part 1: Herodotus among the Trees
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- Flights of Angels: The Heavenly Orders in the Renaissance
- A Centennial Celebration I. M. Pei at the National Gallery of Art
- Answering the Search for the Next Ansel Adams
- Introduction to the Exhibition: Frédéric Bazille and the Birth of Impressionism
- Artwork as Network: Printed Multiples and the Cybernetic Turn
- Drawing the Line: The Early Work of Agnes Martin
- The Landmarks of New York
- East of the Mississippi: Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Photography
- Jean Desmet’s Dream Factory, 1906 – 1916: When the Earth Trembled
- Jean Desmet’s Dream Factory, 1906 – 1916: The Colorful World of Cinema
- Jean Desmet’s Dream Factory, 1906 – 1916: Ladies First
- Calder Tower
- Conversations with Artists: Theaster Gates
- Jean Desmet’s Dream Factory, 1906 – 1916: Up in the Air!
- Sculpting with Color in Renaissance Florence: An Introduction to the Della Robbia Exhibition
- Paper/Plates: Renaissance Prints and Ceramics at the National Gallery of Art
- Douglas Crimp and Lynne Cooke on "Before Pictures"
- Jason + Joan: Reanimation: Jason Moran and Joan Jonas in Conversation with Lynne Cooke
- “Slipping into the World as Abstractions”: Georgia O’Keeffe’s Abstract Portraits
- Tradition and Invention in the Art of Renaissance Venice
- Los Angeles to New York: Dwan Gallery, 1959 – 1971, VI: Some Art Is Hard to See: Field Trips with Virginia Dwan
- Los Angeles to New York: Dwan Gallery, 1959 – 1971, V: Liberating Artist and Exhibition: Dwan Gallery and the Reconceptualization of Site
- Rajiv Vaidya Memorial Lecture 2016: The Innovations of the Moving Image
- The Sydney J. Freedberg Lecture on Italian Art: The Aesthetics of Water: Wellheads, Cisterns, and Fountains in the Venetian Dominion
- Flow: Theory and Practice
- Drawings for Paintings in the Age of Rembrandt: The Creative Process
- The Art of Rivalry
- Los Angeles to New York: Dwan Gallery, 1959 – 1971, IV: Rethinking Minimalism
- Los Angeles to New York: Dwan Gallery, 1959 – 1971, III: Tableaux in Three Dimensions: Kienholz’s Social Theater at Ferus and Dwan
- Los Angeles to New York: Dwan Gallery, 1959 – 1971, II: Learning from LA
- Stuart Davis: In Full Swing—An Introduction to the Exhibition
- John Wilmerding Symposium on American Art, VI: Rockwell Kent and the End of the World
- Los Angeles to New York: Dwan Gallery, 1959 – 1971, I: West Coast, East Coast
- John Wilmerding Symposium on American Art, V: Marsden Hartley’s Maine
- John Wilmerding Symposium on American Art, IV: Arthur Dove: Circles, Signs, and Sounds
- John Wilmerding Symposium on American Art, III: Seeing in Detail: Frederic Church and the Language of Landscape
- A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copley
- John Wilmerding Symposium on American Art, II: Which is Which? The Serious Fun of Trompe l'Oeil
- Introduction to the Exhibition In the Tower: Barbara Kruger
- John Wilmerding Symposium on American Art, I: Still Life and America
- The Reception of Paolo Veronese in Britain (c. 1600–1900)
- Diamonstein-Spielvogel Lecture Series: Thomas Struth
- Discoveries from the Dwan Gallery and Virginia Dwan Archives
- Conversation with Collectors: Virginia Dwan and James Meyer
- The Collecting of African American Art XII: Pamela J. Joyner in Conversation with Leonardo Drew and Jennie C. Jones
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- The Light of the World
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- Celebrating a Milestone: 75 Years of the National Gallery of Art and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, VI: Presenting the Kress Collection: Restoration and Framing
- Peter Hutton: Landscape and Time
- Introducing Hubert Robert
- Celebrating a Milestone: 75 Years of the National Gallery of Art and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, V: History Revealed: The Kress Collection of Historic Images
- Celebrating a Milestone: 75 Years of the National Gallery of Art and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, IV: Princes, Dukes, and Counts: Provenance and Pedigrees in the Kress Collection
- Conversations with Artists: Helen Frankenthaler
- Celebrating a Milestone: 75 Years of the National Gallery of Art and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, III: The Leveraged Gift: The Making of the David and Alfred Smart Museum at the University of Chicago
- Celebrating a Milestone: 75 Years of the National Gallery of Art and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, II: The Kress Collection at the Seattle Art Museum
- Celebrating a Milestone: 75 Years of the National Gallery of Art and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, I: A Platinum Jubilee: The Gallery and The Kress @ 75
- Power and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World Symposium VII: Hellenistic Invention: Theory and Practice
- Unflattening: Revolutionizing Thought in Comics
- Power and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World Symposium, VI: Uses and Abuses of the Luxury Arts: Tryphe in the Hellenistic World
- Bronze, Bells, Bust: The National Gallery of Art’s Charles V
- Black Diaspora Art in Our Global Contemporary Moment: Some Reflections
- Power and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World Symposium, VIII: Writing, Reading, and Thinking in Alexandria
- Elsa Mora: Timeline
- Power and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World Symposium V: Material Matters: Why Bronze?
- German Spaces, Haacke’s Places: Hans Haacke’s Germania at the 1993 Venice Biennale
- The National Gallery of Art at 75: Andrew W. Mellon, David Finley, Paul Mellon
- "Molotov Man" in Context
- Diamonstein-Spielvogel Lecture Series: Leo Villareal
- The Sixty-Fifth A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: The Thief Who Stole My Heart: The Material Life of Chola Bronzes from South India, c. 855–1280, Part 6: Worship in Uncertain Times: The Secret Burial of Bronzes in 1310
- The Sixty-Fifth A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: The Thief Who Stole My Heart: The Material Life of Chola Bronzes from South India, c. 855–1280, Part 5: Chola Obsession with Sri Lanka and the Silk Route of the Sea in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries
- FAPE 2016: Frank Gehry and Paul Goldberger in Conversation
- The Sixty-Fifth A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: The Thief Who Stole My Heart: The Material Life of Chola Bronzes from South India, c. 855–1280, Part 4: An Eleventh-Century Master Sculptor: Ten Thousand Pearls Adorn a Bronze
- Power and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World Symposium III: Identity, Continuity, and Change in the Hellenistic Cityscape
- The Sixty-Fifth A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: The Thief Who Stole My Heart: The Material Life of Chola Bronzes from South India, c. 855–1280, Part 3: Portrait of a Queen: Patronage of Dancing Shiva, c. 941‒1002
- From Olympus to the Streets of Constantinople: The Byzantine Retirement of the Ancient Gods
- Power and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World Symposium, II: Muscle into Bronze: Athletics, Athletes, and Athletic Victor Statues in the Hellenistic Aegean
- The Sixty-Fifth A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: The Thief Who Stole My Heart: The Material Life of Chola Bronzes from South India, c. 855–1280, Part 2: Shiva as "Victor of Three Forts": Battling for Empire, 855‒955
- Power and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World Symposium, I: "Living Statues": Ancient and Modern Viewers of Hellenistic Sculpture
- Women in Hellenistic and Roman Athens: Visualizing Female Power and Wealth
- The Sixty-Fifth A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: The Thief Who Stole My Heart: The Material Life of Chola Bronzes from South India, c. 855–1280, Part 1: Gods on Parade: Sacred Forms of Copper
- Zeus, Isis, and Dionysos in Dion at the Foot of Mount Olympus
- Alexandre Arrechea: Space Defeated
- New Discoveries from the Robert H. Smith Collection
- Elson Lecture 2016: Cecily Brown
- Procession: The Art of Norman Lewis
- What Makes a Statue?
- Unabridged and Incomplete: Series and Sequences in Contemporary Art
- Bronzes from the Aegean: The Lost Cargos and the Circumstances of Their Recovery
- The Artist as Weatherman: Hans Haacke's Critical Meteorology
- Introduction to the Exhibition — Power and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World
- Thomas Hart Benton: Painting the Song
- Rajiv Vaidya Memorial Lecture: New York's Cinema 16 Film Society: Programming for a Divided World
- Rajiv Vaidya Memorial Lecture: Germany in the 1920s: Expanding the Film Avant-Garde beyond the Political Divide
- The Sydney J. Freedberg Lecture on Italian Art: Canova and Color
- Rajiv Vaidya Memorial Lecture: Time Frames: Andy Warhol's Film and Video
- Artists and Mentorship: David C. Driskell in Conversation with Ellington Robinson
- Abstraction and Its Capacities
- American Experiments in Narrative, 2000–2015: Don Perry
- Introduction to the Exhibition — The Serial Impulse at Gemini G.E.L.
- Behind the Scenes of "The Serial Impulse": Conserving Works of Art on Paper
- Talking Shop with Sidney Felsen: Fifty Years of Artists at Gemini G.E.L
- Caillebotte/Durand-Ruel: Making Impressionism
- Gods and Goddesses Behaving Badly: The Art of Joachim Wtewael
- Archive of Lamentations
- Jennifer Reeves | nga
- Diamonstein-Spielvogel Lecture Series: Carrie Mae Weems
- Art Is For the Spirit: Recent Prints and Sculpture at Gemini G.E.L.
- Cézanne and Antiquity
- Entrevista sobre Venecia 1548: Tiziano contemplando “El milagro del esclavo” de Tintoreto
- Electric Schlock: Duchenne de Boulogne’s Photographic Theater
- New Discoveries about "Young Girl Reading" by Jean-Honoré Fragonard
- Introduction to the Exhibition—Gustave Caillebotte: The Painter's Eye
- A Closer Look at Metalpoint Drawing
- Reading from "Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs" by Sally Mann
- New Discoveries about "A Pastoral Visit" by Richard Norris Brooke (National Gallery of Art, Corcoran Collection)
- Conversations with Artists: Mark Ruwedel
- Making Redlands: A Novel in Words and Pictures
- Conversations with Artists: Vera Lutter
- Introduction to the Exhibition—Drawing in Silver and Gold: Leonardo to Jasper Johns
- Building a Collection: Photography at the National Gallery of Art
- FAPE 2015: The Role of Art in Diplomacy: Cultural Citizens
- The Sixty-Fourth A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: Restoration as Event and Idea: Art in Europe, 1814‒1820, Part 6: Redemption in Rome and Paris, 1818–1820: Ingres Revives the Chivalric while Géricault Recovers the Dispossessed
- Two Approaches to Making a New Music out of the Traditions of Jazz
- Rodolfo Peraza
- The Sixty-Fourth A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: Restoration as Event and Idea, Part 5:
- Personal Vision and the Education of Young Composers in America
- In My Mind
- The Sixty-Fourth A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: Restoration as Event and Idea: Art in Europe, 1814‒1820, Part 4: The Religion of Ancient Art from London to Paris to Rome, 1815–1819: Canova and Lawrence Replenish Papal Splendor
- Elson Lecture 2015: Jessica Stockholder
- Intermedia Collaboration
- Kadir López
- Piero di Cosimo: A Renaissance Painter Comes to America
- The Sixty-Fourth A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: Restoration as Event and Idea: Art in Europe, 1814‒1820, Part 3: Cut Loose, 1815–1817: Napoleon Returns, David Crosses Borders, and Géricault Wanders Outcast Rome
- Auguste Rodin's Lifetime Bronze Sculpture in the Simpson Collection and the Role of Several Trusted Practitioners
- What's New with Piero di Cosimo?
- The Sixty-Fourth A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: Restoration as Event and Idea: Art in Europe, 1814‒1820, Part 2: At the Service of Kings, Madrid and Paris, 1814: Aging Goya and Upstart Géricault Face Their Restorations
- Resisting Love, Embracing War in Representations of Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata
- The Sixty-Fourth A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: Restoration as Event and Idea: Art in Europe, 1814‒1820: Moscow Burns / The Pope Comes Home, 1812‒1814: David, Gros, and Ingres Test Empire's Facade, Part 1
- Other Planes of There
- Another Light: Thomas Demand's "Pacific Sun"
- Why Prints?
- Renaissance Invention and the Haunted Infancy
- Los Carpinteros
- Inside Look: Little Dancer Aged Fourteen
- Introduction to the Exhibition: Piero di Cosimo: The Poetry of Painting in Renaissance Florence
- The Radicalism of the "Little Dancer Aged Fourteen"
- The Ages of El Greco: From Crete to Toledo
- Van Gogh at the National Gallery of Art
- Captain Linnaeus Tripe: Photographer of India and Burma, 1852–1860, Part 3: Measuring Time: Linnaeus Tripe's Inscription of the Thanjavur Temple, 1858
- Captain Linnaeus Tripe: Photographer of India and Burma, 1852–1860, Part 2: Interpreting Early Photography in India: Medium and Method
- Captain Linnaeus Tripe: Photographer of India and Burma, 1852–1860, Part 1: "A Glorious Galaxy of Monuments": Photography and the Archaeological Survey of India after Tripe
- Patrimony in Peril: Germany's Survey of Mural Paintings Threatened During WWII
- Degas and Cassatt: Different Perspectives, Part 4: Boxes of Colors: Cassatt and Degas as Pastellists
- Degas and Cassatt: Different Perspectives, Part 3: Degas: Women, Horses, and Nature
- Image of the Black in Western Art, Part IV
- Degas and Cassatt: Different Perspectives, Part 2: Degas and Cassatt: Sex and the Single Artist
- Degas and Cassatt: Different Perspectives, Part 1: Degas, Cassatt, and the Americans
- El Greco in America: Critics, Collectors, and Connoisseurs
- The Sydney J. Freedberg Lecture on Italian Art: Venice 1548
- Visibility Machines: A Conversation with Harun Farocki and Trevor Paglen
- Andrew Wyeth: Rebel
- Rendez-vous with Art: A Conversation
- Saving the Baldwin Film
- Artists, Amateurs, Alternative Spaces: Experimental Cinema in Eastern Europe, 1960–1990
- Sandra Ramos
- Introduction to the Exhibition: Captain Linnaeus Tripe: Photographer of India and Burma, 1852-1860
- A Celebration of James Baldwin with Carolyn Forché and E. Ethelbert Miller
- Among Friends: Allen Ginsberg, Robert Delpire, Jonas Mekas, and Ed Grazda on Robert Frank, Part 4
- Ursula von Rydingsvard
- Among Friends: Allen Ginsberg, Robert Delpire, Jonas Mekas, and Ed Grazda on Robert Frank, Part 3
- Among Friends: Allen Ginsberg, Robert Delpire, Jonas Mekas, and Ed Grazda on Robert Frank, Part 2
- Among Friends: Allen Ginsberg, Robert Delpire, Jonas Mekas, and Ed Grazda on Robert Frank, Part 1
- Harry Callahan: Photographer, Teacher, Mentor
- The Domenichino Affair: Novelty, Imitation, and Theft in Seventeenth-Century Rome
- A Sense of Place-Winslow Homer and the Maine Coast
- The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa
- The Artist's Reality: Philosophies of Art
- The Art of Frank Lloyd Wright
- Speaking Pictures: Poetry Addressing Works of Art
- Andrew Wyeth at the Movies: The Story of an Obsession
- The Girl with a Pearl Earring: The Making of an Icon
- Van Gogh: The Face in the Mirror
- Out of the Kokoon: Modernism in Cleveland before the Armory Show
- Andrew Wyeth: A Spoken Self-Portrait
- Patrons, Artists, and Saints: El Greco in the Chapel of San José in Toledo
- El Greco: 400 Years After: The Apostolate of the Museo del Greco in Toledo: One of El Greco's Greatest Series, Part 5
- Mary Cassatt's Radical Monstrosities
- Producing Digital Knowledge about Analog Art: The Case of Frederick Sommer
- El Greco: 400 Years After: Sainthood and Creativity: El Greco's Portraits of Saint Ildefonso and Giulio Clovio, Part 4
- Dutch Paintings in a New Age: The Debut of NGA Online Editions
- Introduction to the Exhibition: Degas/Cassatt
- El Greco: 400 Years After: A Greek Painter in Toledo, 400 Years After, Part 3
- The Sixty-Third A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: Past Belief: Visions of Early Christianity in Renaissance and Reformation Europe, Part 6: Constantine and Conversion: The Roles of the First Christian Emperor
- Introduction to the Exhibition: Andrew Wyeth: Looking Out, Looking In
- FAPE 2014: The Role of Art in Diplomacy: The Artist in a Global Community
- The Sixty-Third A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: Past Belief: Visions of Early Christianity in Renaissance and Reformation Europe, Part 5: Martyrdom and Persecution: The Uses of Early Christian Suffering
- Ways of Seeing Byzantium: Beautiful Bodies: Personal Adornment and Byzantine Aesthetics, Then and Now, Part 4
- El Greco: 400 Years After: El Greco in Italy: Formation of an Ambitious Portraitist, Part 2
- The Sixty-Third A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: Past Belief: Visions of Early Christianity in Renaissance and Reformation Europe, Part 4: Relics and Ruins: Material Survivals and Early Modern Interpretations
- El Greco: 400 Years After: Introduction: The Critical Fortune of El Greco: Causes and Effects, Part 1
- Ways of Seeing Byzantium: Heaven in Earth: Exhibiting the Metaphysics of Matter, Part 3
- Ways of Seeing Byzantium: The Byzantine Icon in the Expanded Field, Part 2
- Old Topographics: Photography and Urbanization in Nineteenth-Century Paris : Ruptures in the Urban Fabric (Boots on the Ground): Paris/Beijing, Part 7
- The Sixty-Third A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: Past Belief: Visions of Early Christianity in Renaissance and Reformation Europe, Part 3: Christian Origins and the Work of Time: Imagining the First Christians
- Ways of Seeing Byzantium: An Introduction, Part 1
- Old Topographics: Photography and Urbanization in Nineteenth-Century Paris : Paris Plays Itself: The Modernizing City Seen through the Lens (in Rewind), 1926 – 1865, Part 6
- "Fair Greece, Sad Relic": How Did Byzantium Reform Classical Greek Art?
- Old Topographics: Photography and Urbanization in Nineteenth-Century Paris : The Quarry in the City: Charles Marville1s Landscapes of the Carrières d1Amérique, Part 5
- The Sixty-Third A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: Past Belief: Visions of Early Christianity in Renaissance and Reformation Europe, Part 2: Bearers of Memory and Makers of History: The Many Paths to Christian Antiquity
- The Sixty-Third A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: Past Belief: Visions of Early Christianity in Renaissance and Reformation Europe, Part 1: How Jesus Celebrated Passover: The Jewish Origins of Christianity
- Elson Lecture 2014: Allan McCollum
- Old Topographics: Photography and Urbanization in Nineteenth-Century Paris : Marville's Street Lamps, Part 4
- The Collecting of African American Art XI: The Wedge Collection
- Introduction to the Exhibition: Garry Winogrand
- Old Topographics: Photography and Urbanization in Nineteenth-Century Paris: Mapping, Picturing and Constructing the 19th-Century Parisian Grid, Part 3
- The Inside Story: Monuments Men and the National Gallery of Art
- Capital Culture: J. Carter Brown, the National Gallery of Art
- Old Topographics: Photography and Urbanization in Nineteenth-Century Paris : Urban Graphics: Mapping, Picturing and Constructing the Nineteenth-Century Parisian Grid, Part 2
- Looking Forward, Looking Back
- Image of the Black in Western Art, Part III
- Old Topographics: Photography and Urbanization in Nineteenth-Century Paris : Transit and Transition in Marville's Paris, Part 1
- A Bearden Celebration
- Climbing and Clarifying: The Genius of Jacob Lawrence
- The Collecting of African American Art X: Rodney Merritt Miller: Reflections on Collecting
- Witnessing Byzantium: The Greek Perspective
- Speaking across Disciplines: Introducing "Facture," a New Gallery Journal
- Conservation of the Shaw Memorial: The Long Journey
- Visualizing Community: City and Village in Byzantine Greece: Art and Craftsmanship in Medieval Byzantium, Part 4
- Visualizing Community: City and Village in Byzantine Greece: Earthenwares from "Heavenly" Byzantium, Part 3
- Visualizing Community: City and Village in Byzantine Greece: New Discoveries from Byzantium Greece, Part 2
- Visualizing Community: City and Village in Byzantine Greece: Visualizing Community in Byzantium Greece, Part 1
- An Insider's Perspective
- Viewing History Through the Filmmaker's Lens
- The Education of a Curator: Keeping It All in Balance
- Russians in Napoléon vu par Abel Gance: The Émigré Contribution
- Andy Goldsworthy
- The Real Treasure of Citizen Kane: William Randolph Hearst and the Story of His Extraordinary Collections
- DJ Spooky: A Civil War Symphony
- Diamonstein-Spielvogel Lecture Series: Julie Mehretu
- The Sydney J. Freedberg Lecture on Italian Art: Circa 1515: Leonardo, Raphael, and Michelangelo
- Making It: Race and Class in Contemporary America
- Charles Marville, Photographer of Paris in the Age of Haussmann
- The Sixty-Second A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: Out of Site in Plain View: A History of Exhibiting Architecture since 1750: Framed and Hung: Architecture in Public from the Salon to the French Revolution, Part 1
- The Sixty-Second A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: Out of Site in Plain View: A History of Exhibiting Architecture since 1750: In and Out of Time: Curating Architecture's History, Part 2
- The Sixty-Second A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: Out of Site in Plain View: A History of Exhibiting Architecture since 1750: Not at Home: Architecture on Display from World's Fairs to Williamsburg, Part 3
- The Sixty-Second A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: Out of Site in Plain View: A History of Exhibiting Architecture since 1750: Better Futures: Exhibitions between Reform and Avant-Garde, Part 4
- The Sixty-Second A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: Out of Site in Plain View: A History of Exhibiting Architecture since 1750: Conflicting Visions: Commerce, Diplomacy, and Persuasion, Part 5
- The Sixty-Second A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: Out of Site in Plain View: A History of Exhibiting Architecture since 1750: Architecture and the Rise of the Event Economy, Part 6
- War Memoranda: A Conversation with Binh Danh and Robert Schultz
- Tell It with Pride: The 54th Massachusetts Regiment and Augustus Saint-Gaudens' Shaw Memorial
- Yes, No, Maybe: The Art of Making Decisions
- The Rite of Spring: Race, Dance, and Modernism in 1913
- Elson Lecture 2006: A Talk with Vija Celmins
- Philip Kaufman: American Stylist
- Jeff Wall on His Work
- Conversations with Collectors: Barney A. Ebsworth
- Bronislava Nijinska: A Choreographer's Journey
- The Voice of the Artist: De Wain Valentine
- Ciné-Concert: A Suitcase Full of Chocolate—Sofia Cosma
- The Lure of the Letter: Renaissance Venice and Antique Lettering
- Conversations with Collectors: Margaret and Raymond Horowitz
- The Accidental Masterpiece: Leonardo and "The Last Supper"
- Brice Marden: Beyond Visual Reality
- Diaghilev Symposium: Panel Discussion , Part 6
- Diaghilev Symposium: Poulenc's House Party, Part 5
- Conversations with Artists: Kerry James Marshall
- Diaghilev Symposium: The Ballets Russes and Russia, Part 4
- Diaghilev Symposium: Myth in Motion—Decoration, Dance, and Sources of Russian Modernism, Part 3
- When Art Danced with Music (and What it Wore)
- Diaghilev Symposium: Worlds of Art: Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes: Diaghilev and the Courts: Culture Clashes and Lawsuits during the First American Tour of the Ballets Russes, Part 2
- Diaghilev Symposium: Worlds of Art: Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes: Diaghilev, a Russian Nationalist in the West, Part 1
- Elson Lecture 2007: Persistence and Style
- Bernini's Beloved
- Useful and Beautiful: William Morris and His Books
- Saving Italy: The Monuments Men, Nazis, and War
- Conversations with Collectors: Dorothy and Herbert Vogel
- Inside Photography: The Role of Art in Diplomacy
- Pre-Raphaelitism and International Modernisms Symposium: Seduction or Salvation: Aesthetic Immersion in the Work of Edward Burne-Jones
- Pre-Raphaelitism and International Modernisms Symposium: The Craftsman's Dream: The Pre-Raphaelites and the Arts and Crafts Movement
- Pre-Raphaelitism and International Modernisms Symposium: Tirra Lirra in a Mirror: Rhyming Visual and Verbal Form
- Pre-Raphaelitism and International Modernisms Symposium: Can Sculpture Be Pre-Raphaelite?
- Engaging with American Furniture: Looking Back, Moving Forward Symposium: Lafayette River to the Potomac: The Kaufman Collection at the National Gallery of Art
- Engaging with American Furniture: Looking Back, Moving Forward Symposium: Research for the Future: Revisiting "...things you have long taken for granted"
- Pre-Raphaelitism and International Modernisms Symposium: Q and A (Day 1)
- Pre-Raphaelitism and International Modernisms Symposium: Introduction: Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde
- Engaging with American Furniture: Looking Back, Moving Forward Symposium: From Appreciation to Interpretation: Academic Engagement with American Furniture
- Pre-Raphaelitism and International Modernisms Symposium: Avant-Garde Matters
- Engaging with American Furniture: Looking Back, Moving Forward Symposium: Dust, Grain, and Soften: The Fine Art of Decorative Painting
- Pre-Raphaelitism and International Modernisms Symposium: Ripe for Revolution? Reconsidering "The New Path" and the American Pre-Raphaelites
- Introduction to the Exhibition:"Albrecht Dürer: Master Drawings, Watercolors, and Prints from the Albertina"
- Pre-Raphaelitism and International Modernisms Symposium: Pre-Raphaelite Landscape Painting and the Barbizon School, or, The English Beef with the French
- Elson Lecture 2013: A Conversation with Glenn Ligon
- Pre-Raphaelitism and International Modernisms Symposium: Welcome and Introduction: Pre-Raphaelitism and International Modernisms
- Truth, Lies, and Photographs
- Conversations with Collectors: Robert and Jane Meyerhoff
- Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde
- Colorforms: Ellsworth Kelly and the Colored Paper Images
- William H. Johnson
- Oil and Water: De Kooning in His Studio
- Social Art, Social Cooperation: A Conversation with Tania Bruguera, Tom Finkelpearl, and Mierle Laderman Ukeles
- Artists in Residence: Henry O. Tanner in the Holy Land
- Michelangelo's David-Apollo: An Offer He Couldn't Refuse
- Historical Perspectives: African American Art
- Of Times and Spaces: On Looking at Thomas Struth and Candida Höfer
- Roy Lichtenstein's Kyoto Prize Lecture of 1995
- A Conversation with Calvin Tomkins: "Duchamp: A Biography"
- A Sculptor Looks at Rodin's Work
- Concerning America, and Alfred Stieglitz, and Myself
- Art and Espionage: Michael Straight's Giorgione
- Picasso and the Concept of the Masterpiece
- Living with the Dead in France: Nineteenth-Century Tomb Sculpture
- Painting in Emilia
- Tony Smith at 100 Symposium: The Tony Smith Experience and Q and A Session
- Tony Smith at 100 Symposium: Tony Smith: X Marks the Spot
- Tony Smith at 100 Symposium: Introductory Remarks and "Dream of the Proper Context": Tony Smith, the Abstract Expressionists' Architect
- Collecting for Quality: The Kaufman Collection of American Furniture, 1725-1825
- The Sydney J. Freedberg Lecture on Italian Art: Lodovico Carracci: Observations on a Faulted Genius
- The Lion in Great Age: Titian's Last Painting
- George Bellows Symposium: The Late Work of George Bellows and the Question of Modernity
- The Collecting of African American Art IX: Collecting Black: An Anachronism
- George Bellows Symposium: The Ashcan Goes to War: Bellows, Belligerence, and the Rape of Belgium
- The Sydney J. Freedberg Lecture on Italian Art "Not a painting, but a Vision!": Raphael's Sistine Madonna Turns Five Hundred
- George Bellows Symposium: Sunday in the Park with George Bellows
- George Bellows Symposium: "The infant terrible of painting": Bellows by the River
- Italian Painting: Mannerism and Maniera
- Imperial Augsburg: A Flourishing Market for Innovative Prints
- George Bellows Symposium: Bellows' "Riverfront": The Pestilential City and the Problem of Masculinity
- Triumphs in Craftsmanship: Masterpieces of American Furniture from the Kaufman Collection, 1700-1830
- Diamonstein-Spielvogel Lecture Series: Inside Out
- Roy Lichtenstein: Reading between the Dots
- Amber and the Ancient World
- George Bellows Symposium: "Election Night, Times Square"
- George Bellows Symposium: Bellows "Both In and Out of the Game"
- Celebrating "National Gallery of Art: Master Paintings from the Collection"
- Barnett Newman: The Stations of the Viewer
- The Serial Portrait: Photography and Identity in the Last One Hundred Years
- Introduction to the Exhibition:"Shock of the News"
- An American Vision: Henry Francis du Pont's Winterthur Museum
- Gérôme: Celebrated, Vilified, Reconsidered
- "Gilbert Stuart": An Introduction to the Exhibition
- PASSAGE 7: John Cage— incidents, texts, conversations, and music
- Signs of the Artist: Signatures and Self-Expression in American Paintings
- Joan Miró Symposium: L'Oeuvre de guerre of Miró: Constellation Series, Série Barcelona, and Ceramics, 1940–1945
- Joan Miró Symposium: Miró's Studios: Reflecting His Roots, His References, and His Memories
- Nazi Loot in American Collections
- Joan Miró Symposium: "The Farm": Primitivism and Transfiguration
- Exotic Beasts and Politics: The Menageries of Josephine Bonaparte, Lorenzo de' Medici, and Rudolph II
- Joan Miró Symposium: Perspective, Position, and Politics: Joan Miró
- Joan Miró Symposium: Carob Link: A Promenade with Miró
- Rings: Five Passions in World Art,"A Preview of the Olympic Exhibition
- Introduction to a Painting: Edouard Manet's The Railway
- Celebrating the Reopening of the Nineteenth-Century French Galleries Symposium: Reinstalling the Nineteenth-Century European Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Introduction to the Exhibition: Edo: Art in Japan, 1615-1868
- Celebrating the Reopening of the Nineteenth-Century French Galleries Symposium: Rethinking Nineteenth-Century Art History in France: The Musée d'Orsay Renovated
- Celebrating the Reopening of the Nineteenth-Century French Galleries Symposium: The Nineteenth Century According to Albert Barnes
- Introduction to the Exhibition—"Elegance and Refinement: The Still-Life Paintings of Willem van Aelst"
- Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane
- Introduction to the Exhibition—"George Bellows": An Unfinished Life
- Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione: Genius in Context
- Samuel F. B. Morse's "Gallery of the Louvre" in Focus Symposium: The Forest of the Old Masters: The Chiaroscuro of American Places
- Samuel F. B. Morse's "Gallery of the Louvre" in Focus Symposium: Painting and Technology: Samuel F. B. Morse and the Visual Transmission of Intelligence
- Samuel F. B. Morse's "Gallery of the Louvre" in Focus Symposium: The Tradition of Paintings-within-Paintings
- Samuel F. B. Morse's "Gallery of the Louvre" in Focus Symposium: "Gallery of the Louvre" and the Electric Telegraph
- Samuel F. B. Morse's "Gallery of the Louvre" in Focus Symposium: Samuel F. B. Morse's "Gallery of the Louvre" as a Religious Painting
- Samuel F. B. Morse's "Gallery of the Louvre" in Focus Symposium: American Artists and the Louvre
- Samuel F. B. Morse's "Gallery of the Louvre" in Focus Symposium: Samuel Morse's Louvre in Context
- Samuel F. B. Morse's "Gallery of the Louvre" in Focus Symposium: Samuel F. B. Morse's "Lectures on the Affinity of Painting with the Other Fine Arts" and the Creation of "Gallery of the Louvre"
- Samuel F. B. Morse's "Gallery of the Louvre" in Focus Symposium: Thoughts on the Conservation Treatment of Morse's "Gallery of the Louvre
- Architecture and Art: Creating Community
- Introduction to the Exhibition—Miró: Two Views
- Introduction to the Exhibition: Sculpture of Angkor and Ancient Cambodia: Millennium of Glory
- Itō Jakuchū's Colorful Realm: Juxtaposition, Naturalism, and Ritual
- 解決當代中國藝術中「東方與西方的難題」
- Solving the East/West Conundrum in Modern Chinese Art
- Art on the Mall: The National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden
- David Finley, Andrew Mellon, and the Founding of the National Gallery
- Garden of Illusions: The National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden
- The Collecting of African American Art I: Introduction
- Side by Side: Cimabue and Giotto at Pisa
- Speech on the Dedication of the East Building of the National Gallery
- Speech on the Dedication of the National Gallery of Art: Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Vilhelm Hammershøi and His Contemporaries
- Elson Lecture: Kerry James Marshall: The Importance of Being Figurative
- About Four Honest Outlaws
- Andrew W. Mellon: Collecting for the Nation
- Mellon: A Life
- Conversations with Artists: Joel Shapiro, Thoughts on the Organization of Form in Modern Sculpture
- Nineteenth-Century Redux: A New Look at a Great Collection of French Paintings
- Exhibiting Blackness: African Americans and the American Art Museum
- A Sense of Place—Norman Lewis in Harlem: "An Inquiry into the Laws of Nature"
- The Collecting of African American Art VIII: Elliot Perry and Darrell Walker in Conversation with Michael Harris
- Conversations with Artists-Compositions and Collaborations: The Arts of Lou Stovall
- Conversations with Artists: David C. Driskell and Frank Stewart
- The Collecting of African American Art VII: David C. Driskell in Conversation with Ruth Fine
- Remembering and Forgetting: Imagery and Its Role in the Slave Trade and Its Abolition
- Pictures of Nothing: Abstract Art since Pollock, Part 6: Abstract Art Now
- A Conversation with David C. Driskell
- Works on Paper by African Americans: The Growth of the National Gallery of Art Collection
- Pictures of Nothing: Abstract Art since Pollock, Part 5: Satire, Irony, and Abstract Art
- Pictures of Nothing: Abstract Art since Pollock, Part 4: After Minimalism
- Pictures of Nothing: Abstract Art since Pollock, Part 3: Minimalism
- Pictures of Nothing: Abstract Art since Pollock, Part 2: Survivals and Fresh Starts
- Pictures of Nothing: Abstract Art since Pollock, Part 1: Why Abstract Art?
- An Introduction to the Exhibition—Édouard Vuillard
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- The Image of the Black in Western Art, Part II
- Florence: Days of Destruction
- Some Pages from Michelangelo's Life
- Leonardo da Vinci: Artist of Sketchbooks and Notebooks
- Antico: The Making of an Exhibition
- Teaching Connoisseurship: Paul Sachs at Harvard University and Bernard Berenson at Villa I Tatti
- Harry Callahan at 100
- Introduction to the Exhibition-In the Tower: Mel Bochner
- The Sydney J. Freedberg Lecture on Italian Art: Bernard Berenson and Lorenzo Lotto
- Conversations with Artists: Mel Bochner
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- The Sydney J. Freedberg Lecture on Italian Art: The Third Italian Renaissance: Art of the Lombard Plain
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- Introduction to the Exhibition-Warhol: Headlines
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- The Sydney J. Freedberg Lecture on Italian Art 2002: The Turning Figure
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- The Moment of Caravaggio: Part 5: Severed Representations
- The Moment of Caravaggio: Part 4: Absorption and Address
- Conversations with Artists: Scott Burton and George Segal
- The Moment of Caravaggio: Part 3: The Invention of Absorption
- Conversations with Artists: Richard Misrach, Desert Cantos and Other Landscapes
- The Moment of Caravaggio: Part 2: Immersion and Specularity
- Conversations with Artists: Ed Ruscha
- The Moment of Caravaggio: Part 1: A New Type of Self-Portrait
- Conversations with Artists: Pat Steir
- Conversations with Artists: Jim Dine
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- Conversations with Artists: Roy Lichtenstein
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- Conversations with Artists: Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen
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- Conversations with Artists: Christo and Jeanne-Claude
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- Gauguin's Selves: Visual Identities in the Age of Freud
- Elson Lecture 2004: Jim Dine
- Elson Lecture 2003: Sam Gilliam
- Elson Lecture 2005: Andy Goldsworthy
- Elson Lecture 2002: Christo and Jeanne-Claude
- Last Looks, Last Books: The Binocular Poetry of Death, Part 6: Self-Portraits While Dying: James Merrill, "A Scattering of Salts"
- Elson Lecture 2000: Wayne Thiebaud: "The Painted World"
- Meeting Metsu: ANOTHER Dutch Master
- Last Looks, Last Books: The Binocular Poetry of Death, Part 5: Caught and Freed: Elizabeth Bishop, "Geography III"
- Elson Lecture 1999: Ellsworth Kelly
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- Introduction to the Exhibition� Gauguin: Maker of Myth
- Last Looks, Last Books: The Binocular Poetry of Death, Part 4: Death by Subtraction: Robert Lowell, "Day by Day"
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- Last Looks, Last Books: The Binocular Poetry of Death, Part 3: The Contest of Melodrama and Restraint: Sylvia Plath, "Ariel"
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- The Sydney J. Freedberg Lecture on Italian Art 2003: Ovid's "Metamorphoses" in the Art of Renaissance and Baroque Masters
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- Elson Lecture 1998: I. M. Pei in conversation with Earl A. Powell III
- Elson Lecture 1996: Elizabeth Murray
- Elson Lecture 1995: Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen
- Elson Lecture 1994: Roy Lichtenstein and Robert Rosenblum
- Elson Lecture 1993: Frank Stella
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- The Sydney J. Freedberg Lecture on Italian Art 2005: Illuminated Choral Manuscripts of the Italian Renaissance
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- The Sydney J. Freedberg Lecture on Italian Art 2006: Modernity is Old: The Landscape of Italy as Seen by the Painters of the Early 19th Century
- Art and Representation in the Ancient New World, Part 3: The Body of Perfection, the Perfection of the Body
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- Art and Representation in the Ancient New World, Part 2: Seeing Time, Hearing Time, Placing Time
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- Fragonard's "Progress of Love" at the Frick Collection: A Site-Specific Installation?
- Film Design: Translating Words into Images
- Jan Lievens: Out of Rembrandt's Shadow; Jan Lievens in Black and White: Etchings, Woodcuts, and Collaborations in Print
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- Puvis de Chavannes and the Invention of Modernism: Parsing the National Gallery of Art Paintings
- Robert Frank and the Photographic Book, 1930�1960
- Michelangelo: In the Beginning
- The Greatest Unknown Work of Art in America
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- Conversations with Authors: Michael Fried on Photography, Modernism, and the Importance of Not Losing Faith in the Dialectic
- The Sydney J. Freedberg Lecture on Italian Art 2010: Thoughts on the Caravaggisti
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- Edvard Munch: Understanding His Master Prints
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- Conversations with Collectors: Dorothy and Herbert Vogel
- Conversations with Artists: Leo Villareal
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- A Gallery Landmark Launched: "French Paintings of the 15th through the 18th Century," a Systematic Catalogue
- Venus as Odalisque: Ingres's Reimagining of the Female Nude
- Celebrating "Civilisation"
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- The Image of Abraham Lincoln
- The Vogel Collection Story, The Fifty Works for Fifty States Project: Two Years Later
- American Modernism: The Shein Collection
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- Sculpture Comes to Life: Splendor, Color, and Realism in Baroque Spain and Elsewhere
- The Sacred Made Real: The Making of an Exhibition
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- The Sacred Made Real: Spanish Painting and Sculpture, 1600�1700: Part 1, Polychromed Sculpture
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- From Impressionism to Modernism: The Chester Dale Collection: Part 2, Getting to Know Maud and Chester Dale
- From Impressionism to Modernism: The Chester Dale Collection: Part 1, An Introduction to the Exhibition
- Reading of "The Fisherwoman" by Toni Morrison from Robert Bergman's book A Kind of Rapture, in conjunction with the exhibition Robert Bergman: Portraits, 1986�1995
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- Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings at the National Gallery of Art: Part 3, History of the Collection
- Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings at the National Gallery of Art: Part 2, The 18th Century
- Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings at the National Gallery of Art: Part 1, The 16th and 17th Centuries
- Garden Caf� Espa�a y las Tradiciones Culinarias Espa�olas
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- The Art of Power: Royal Armor and Portraits from Imperial Spain
- Luis Melendez: Master of the Spanish Still Life, Part 2: Mel�ndez's Working Method
- Luis Mel�ndez: Master of the Spanish Still Life, Part 1: The Artist
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- Judith Leyster, 1609�1660: Part 3, Music in Leyster's Work
- Judith Leyster, 1609�1660: Part 2, Leyster's Technique
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- Stanley William Hayter: From Surrealism to Abstraction
- Jarom�r Funke and the Amateur Avant-Garde
- The Role of Art and Architecture in Civic Buildings
- Fifty-eighth A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: Picasso and Truth, Part 6: Mural
- Fifty-eighth A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: Picasso and Truth, Part 5: Monument
- Fifty-eighth A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: Picasso and Truth, Part 4: Monster
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- Elson Lecture 2009: Robert Frank
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- Pride of Place, Part 2: The Cities
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- The Collecting of African American Art VI: The Art of Collecting
- The Collecting of African American Art V: Collecting as a Way of Life
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- George de Forest Brush, Part 2: Tradition and Modernity
- George de Forest Brush, Part 1: The Advent of the Indian Paintings
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- Martin Puryear, Part 1: Evolution of an Exhibition
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- Afghan Treasures: The Silk Road Revealed at Begram, Part 3
- Afghan Treasures: In Search of "Lady Moon"-A� Khanum, Part 2
- Afghan Treasures: The Bactrian Hoard and Tepe Fullol, Part 1
- The Vogel Collection Story: Part 3, The Fifty Works for Fifty States Project
- The Vogel Collection Story: Part 2, Working with the National Gallery of Art
- The Vogel Collection Story: Part 1, Meeting and Collecting
- Tools of the Trade
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- The Italian Legacy in Washington, D.C.
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- Robert Rauschenberg, Part 3: Family Matters
- Robert Rauschenberg, Part 2: The Personal and the Global
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- J.M.W. Turner and America
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