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Image: Edgar Degas, Four Dancers, c. 1899, Chester Dale Collection, 1963.10.122 Image: Paul Gauguin, Self-Portrait, 1889, Chester Dale Collection, 1963.10.150 Image: Canaletto, The Image: Installation view of In the Tower: Nam June Paik, Photo by Rob Shelley, Copyright 2011 National Gallery of Art, Washington
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Current Exhibitions
Joan Miró: The Ladder of Escape
May 6–August 12, 2012
East Building Upper Level
I Spy: Photography and the Theater of the Street, 1938–2010
April 22–August 5, 2012
West Building Ground Floor
Civic Pride: Group Portraits from Amsterdam
March 10, 2012–March 11, 2017
West Building Main Floor
Modern Lab: Material Interventions
February 11–August 12, 2012
East Building Upper Level
From the Library: The Fleeting Structures of Early Modern Europe
February 4–July 29, 2012
West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G21
The Baroque Genius of Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione
January 29–July 8, 2012
West Building Ground Floor
A New Look: Samuel F.B. Morse's "Gallery of the Louvre"
June 25, 2011–July 8, 2012
West Building Main Floor
Permanent Installations
Alexander Calder mobile
East Building Ground Level
Andy Goldsworthy: Roof
East Building Ground Level
Armand Hammer Collection
West Building Ground Floor
Dutch Cabinet Galleries
West Building Main Floor
Henri Matisse, Cutouts
East Building Concourse
Italian Cabinet Galleries
West Building Main Floor
Leo Villareal: Multiverse
East Building Concourse
Mark Rothko: Seagram Murals
December 6, 2011–August 15, 2012
East Building Ground Level
Masterpieces of American Furniture from the Kaufman Collection, 1700–1830
West Building Ground Floor
Mel Bochner: Theory of Boundaries (1969–1970)
East Building Concourse
National Gallery Sculpture Garden
Sculpture Garden
National Gallery of Art: Recent Acquisitions
Nineteenth-Century French Galleries
West Building Ground Floor
Roxy Paine: Graft
Sculpture Garden
Sculpture Galleries: Permanent Collection
West Building Ground Floor
Shaw Memorial
West Building Main Floor
Small French Paintings
East Building Ground Level
Sol LeWitt: Wall Drawing #65
East Building Concourse
Upcoming Exhibitions
Deacon Peckham's Hobby Horse
May 27–October 8, 2012
East Building Ground Level
George Bellows
June 10–October 8, 2012
West Building Main Floor
In the Tower: Barnett Newman
June 10, 2012–February 24, 2013
East Building Tower
The McCrindle Gift: A Distinguished Collection of Drawings and Watercolors
June 17–November 25, 2012
West Building Ground Floor
Elegance and Refinement: The Still-Life Paintings of Willem van Aelst
June 24–October 14, 2012
West Building Main Floor
Shock of the News
September 23, 2012–January 27, 2013
East Building Mezzanine
Imperial Augsburg: Renaissance Prints and Drawings, 1475–1540
September 30–December 31, 2012
West Building Ground Floor
The Serial Portrait: Photography and Identity in the Last One Hundred Years
September 30–December 31, 2012
West Building Ground Floor
Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective
October 14, 2012–January 13, 2013
East Building Mezzanine
Charles Marville: Photographer of Paris
September 29, 2013–January 5, 2014
West Building Ground Floor
Exhibitions On Tour
Antico: The Golden Age of Renaissance Bronzes
National Gallery of Art, Washington, November 6, 2011–April 8, 2012
The Frick Collection, New York, May 1–July 29, 2012
Warhol: Headlines
National Gallery of Art, Washington, September 25, 2011–January 2, 2012
Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, February 11–March 13, 2012
Galleria nazionale d'arte moderna, Rome, June 11–September 9, 2012
The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, October 14, 2012–January 6, 2013
The Invention of Glory: Afonso V and the Pastrana Tapestries
National Gallery of Art, Washington, September 18, 2011–January 8, 2012
Meadows Museum, Dallas, Texas, February 5–May 13, 2012
San Diego Museum of Art , June 10–September 9, 2012
Indianapolis Museum of Art , October 5, 2012–January 6, 2013
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