Release Date: February 2, 2006
The National Gallery of Art Offers New Audio Tours for Upcoming Cezanne and Dada Exhibitions
Special Discounts Available
Washington, DC—The National Gallery of Art will offer audio tours coproduced in association with Acoustiguide for the exhibitions Cézanne in Provence, on view in the West Building January 29 through May 7, 2006; and Dada, on view in the East Building February 19 through May 14, 2006.Beginning February 19, the Gallery will also offer a special discount: visitors who rent an audio tour for Cézanne in Provence will get a same-day discount of $1 off an audio tour for the Dada exhibition.
Cézanne in Provence, 40 minutes
January 29-May 7, 2006
This major exhibition of 117 of Cézanne’s greatest oil paintings
and watercolors is the first to explore the artist’s complex emotional
engagement with his native Provence through some of his most compelling landscapes,
portraits of friends and family, and works from his monumental series of Bathers.Narrated
by National Gallery of Art director, Earl A. Powell III, the tour includes
commentary by Philip Conisbee, senior curator of European paintings and curator
of French paintings, National Gallery of Art; Joseph Rishel, senior curator
of European painting at the Philadelphia Museum of Art; and Mary Tomkins Lewis,
visiting associate professor of fine arts at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.
Dada, 45 minutes
February 19-May 14, 2006
More than 40 artists are represented in the first major American museum survey
of this influential avant-garde art movement known as Dada. Narrated by National
Gallery of Art director, Earl A. Powell III, this tour includes commentary
by Leah Dickerman, associate curator of modern and contemporary art, National
Gallery of Art, Washington; Anne Umland, curator, department of painting and
sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art, New York; and archival recordings, including
sound poems, and interviews with dadaists Marcel Duchamp and Richard Huelsenbeck.
Each tour is available for $5.00 on state-of-the-art Acoustiguide 2000 MP3 players at each exhibition entrance.
Acoustiguide and the National Gallery of Art have been collaborating on innovative audio content for more than twenty years.For more information about the Gallery, exhibitions, and audio tours, visit www.nga.gov.
Cézanne in Provence was organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, the Musée Granet/Communauté du Pays d’Aix, Aix-en-Provence, and the Réunion des musées nationaux, Paris.Cézanne in Provence is made possible by a generous grant from the DaimlerChrysler Corporation Fund.The exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.
Dada was organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and the Centre Pompidou, Paris, in collaboration with The Museum of Modern Art, New York.Dada is made possible through the generous support of the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation and the Catherine B. Reynolds Foundation.Additional support for the exhibition has been provided by the Annenberg Foundation and Thomas G. Klarner.The exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.
For more information about Acoustiguide, visit www.acoustiguide.com.
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