Recent Announcements
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(202) 842-6353
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Chief Press Officer
Deborah Ziska
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(202) 842-6353
Release Date: May 14, 2008
Jan Lievens' Enigmatic Career And Relationship
with Rembrandt Van Rijn Are Reconsidered in an Exhibition at the National
Gallery of Art, October 26, 2008–January 11, 2009; Traveling to Milwaukee
and Amsterdam
Release Date: May 2, 2008
Franklin Kelly to Become Deputy Director
and Chief Curator of National Gallery of Art in October 2008; Allan Shestack
to Retire After 43-Year Career in Museums
Release Date: April 22, 2008
Afghan Children’s Songbook is
Celebrated with Performance on Opening Day of the U.S. Premiere of "Afghanistan:
Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul"at National Gallery
of Art, May 25, 2008
Release Date: April 17, 2008
From Dürer to Ruscha:
Exceptional Works on Paper Dating from the 15th Century On View at the National
Gallery Of Art,
May 4–November 2, 2008
Release Date: April 11, 2008
The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection:
Fifty Works for Fifty States, A National Gift Program of Contemporary
Art, Is Announced by the National Gallery of Art, the National Endowment
for the Arts, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services
Release Date: April 4, 2008
Stellar Collection of Renaissance Sculpture
Promised to National Gallery of Art by Robert H. Smith
Release Date: April 3, 2008
"Jazz
in the Garden" Concerts Return for Eighth Summer in National Gallery
of Art Sculpture Garden Every Friday, 5:00 – 8:30 p.m., May 23–October
3, 2008; Rain or Shine
Release Date: March 20, 2008
The National Gallery of Art Celebrates
Italy's Rich Cultural Links to Washington, DC During Italian Culture Week,
April 1–6, 2008
Release Date: February 29, 2008
Johannes Vermeer Masterpiece to Travel
from the National Gallery Of Art, Washington, to the Norton Simon Museum,
Pasadena, in Late 2008
Release Date: February 21, 2008
The Fantastical World of Max Ernst on Display
March 2–September 6, 2008, at the National Gallery of Art
Release Date: February 19, 2008
Richard Misrach: On the Beach, May 25
to September 1, 2008
Release Date: February 14, 2008
National Gallery of Art to Premiere Looking
In: Robert Frank’s "The Americans"; a 50th-Anniversary
Celebration of Frank's Book Goes on View in Washington, San Francisco, and
New York in 2009
Release Date: February 5, 2008
National Gallery of Art 2008 Winter
Film Program Includes Retrospectives Honoring Hungarian Filmaker István
Szabó and Russian Director Alexander Sokurov, Washington Premieres,
and Personal Appearances
Release Date: January 31, 2008
African American History Month at the National
Gallery of Art Includes Major Collectors, a Top Soprano, Screening of Duke
Ellington Film, and an Online Tour
Release Date: January 18, 2008
Salomon Van Ruysdael Masterpiece and
Renowned Wolfgang Ratjen Collection are Among Late 2007 Acquisitions by National
Gallery of Art
Release Date: December 21, 2007
Ancient Afghan Treasures to Tour United
States in 2008
Exhibition Organized by National Geographic Society and National Gallery
of Art in Cooperation with National Museum of Afghanistan, Kabul
Release Date: December 19, 2007
Plein-Air Practice in the Forest of Fontainebleau
to be Explored in Exhibition Premiering at National Gallery of Art, Washington
March 2 –June 8, 2008
Release Date: December 18, 2007
National Gallery of Art Seeks Drawings,
Watercolors, and Paintings on Paper by Mark Rothko in Italy for Essential
reference Volumes
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