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Gallery Talks
Events will be added as they are scheduled.
Please check back regularly for the most up-to-date calendar of events information.
Focus: Exhibitions |
Focus: the Collection |
Twelve at Twelve |
Drawing Salon |
Food for Thought
Focus: Exhibitions
Shock of the News
Diane Arkin or Adam Davies
December 4, 6, 10 at 11:00AMDecember 7, 12–14 at 1:00PMDecember 8 at 2:00PMDecember 19, 21 at 12:00PMJanuary 14–18, 22 at 2:00PM(50 minutes)
Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective
Diane Arkin
December 5 at 2:00PMJanuary 2, 7–10 at 2:00PM(50 minutes)
Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective (in Spanish)
Felix Monguilot Benzal
December 6, 11, 13, 18, 20, 27 at 2:00PMJanuary 3 at 2:00PM(60 minutes)
Masterpieces of American Furniture from the Kaufman Collection, 1700–1830
Naomi Remes, Wilford W. Scott, or Dianne Stephens
December 9 at 12:00PMDecember 10–12 at 2:00PMJanuary 3, 24, 31 at 2:00PMJanuary 11–13, 17, 18 at 3:00PMFebruary 13, 16 at 1:00PM(60 minutes)
Michelangelo's David-Apollo
Eric Denker
January 3, 5, 7, 9 at 12:00PM(20 minutes)
Citizens of the Republic: Portraits from the Dutch Golden Age
Molli Kuenstner
January 8, 11, 18, 22, 23, 31 at 12:00PMFebruary 3 at 12:00PM, 1:00PM(20 minutes)
Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Art and Design, 1848–1900
Eric Denker
February 20–22, 26–28 at 12:00PM(60 minutes)
Faking It: Manipulated Photography before Photoshop
Adam Davies
February 20–22, 27, 28 at 1:00PM(60 minutes)
Color, Line, Light: French Drawings, Watercolors, and Pastels from Delacroix to Signac
Eric Denker
February 23–25 at 12:00PM(50 minutes)
Focus: The Collection
Fifteenth-Century Italian Art
David Gariff
December 5, 16, 19–21 at 1:00PM(50 minutes)
Seventeenth-Century Flemish Painting
Eric Denker
December 11, 13, 19, 21, 27 at 11:00AM(60 minutes)
Eighteenth-Century Italian Painting
Eric Denker
December 12, 18, 20, 22, 28 at 12:00PM(60 minutes)
"The Sacrament of the Last Supper" by Salvador Dalí
Maryanna Ramirez
December 13–15 at 12:00PM(20 minutes)
Picture This: Old Master Paintings for People with Visual Impairments
December 26 at 1:00PMJanuary 30 at 1:00PMFebruary 27 at 1:00PM(50 minutes)
Seventeenth-Century Dutch Portraiture
Eric Denker
January 2, 4, 6, 8 at 12:00PM(60 minutes)
Seventeenth-Century Dutch Landscape
Eric Denker
January 14–17 at 12:00PM(60 minutes)
From the Fantastical to the Real: The Shifting Nature of Landscape Painting in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century France
Adam Davies
January 23–27, 30 at 1:00PM(60 minutes)
Images of the Opera
David Gariff
January 24, 25, 30 at 12:00PMJanuary 29, 31 at 1:00PM(50 minutes)
"Richard Wagner" by Alfredo Pina
David Gariff
February 4, 6–8, 12, 14, 19 at 1:00PM(30 minutes)
Twelve at Twelve
Everything you absolutely must know about this painting in 12 minutes or less!
Simon Hantaï's "Étude"
Deirdre D. Palmer
January 29 at 12:00PMFebruary 1, 2 at 12:00PM(12 minutes)
Robert Seldon Duncanson's "Still Life with Fruit"
Wilford W. Scott
February 7–10 at 12:00PM(12 minutes)
Drawing Salon
Gather around works of art for sketching and conversation. This series of workshops focuses on works in the collection through observation, drawing, and discussion. Led by practicing artists and museum educators, the program integrates art history and studio art practices.
Free, but space is limited to 35 participants per session. No advance registration; participation is on a first-come, first-served basis with sign-in beginning at 12:30 pm in the West Building East Garden Court and continuing until all spaces are filled. All drawing materials provided. For more information, contact drawingsalon@nga.gov.
Texture and Shading: Nauman's Hands
December 6, 9 from 1:00PM to 3:00PM
Parts and Whole: Saint-Gaudens' "Shaw Memorial"
January 10, 13 from 1:00PM to 3:00PM
Tone and Atmosphere: Hudson River School
February 7, 10 from 1:00PM to 3:00PM
Line and Space: Calder's Mobiles
March 14, 17 from 1:00PM to 3:00PM
Composition and Perspective: Canaletto and Panini
April 11, 14 from 1:00PM to 3:00PM
Food for Thought
Participate in a seminar-style luncheon discussion of art history and related readings followed by a gallery tour of relevant art. Participants may bring their own lunch or purchase it prior to class in the Cascade Café.
Preregistration is required and limited to 25 participants per session.
Food for Thought registration form
Perspectives on Pop Art
Gwen Fernandez
December 4, 18 from 12:00PM to 2:00PM
Rebuilding Ruins: Landscapes of Decadence and Display
Adam Davies
January 17, 31 from 12:00PM to 2:00PM
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