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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 |
Conversations with Curators and Educators |
Adult Programs Workshop |
Twelve at Twelve |
Food for Thought
Focus: Exhibitions
Antico: The Golden Age of Renaissance Bronzes
Eric Denker or David Gariff
January 11–13, 17, 18 at 2:00PMMarch 9, 11, 13, 22, 23 at 12:00PM(60 minutes)
Picasso's Drawings, 1890–1921: Reinventing Tradition
Diane Arkin or Sally Shelburne
February 6, 7, 13, 14, 16 at 12:00PMMarch 1, 6, 8, 13, 15, 20, 22 at 11:00AMApril 18, 19, 25, 26 at 2:00PM(50 minutes)
In the Tower: Mel Bochner
Diane Arkin or Sally Shelburne
February 8, 28 at 12:00PMMarch 2, 5, 7, 21, 30, 31 at 2:00PMApril 1 at 1:00PM(50 minutes)
Art Talk: In the Tower: Mel Bochner
Kerry Rose and Sally Shelburne
February 8, 28 at 12:00PM(50 minutes)
If Samuel Morse Had Painted at the National Gallery of Art
Dianne Stephens
February 15, 18 at 2:00PMFebruary 19, 20 at 1:00PM(60 minutes)
The Baroque Genius of Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione
Eric Denker
March 6, 8, 10, 20 at 12:00PMMarch 14, 19 at 2:00PM(60 minutes)
Colorful Realm: Japanese Bird-and-Flower Paintings by Itō Jakuchū (1716–1800)
Adam Davies
April 5, 6 at 12:00PMApril 8, 12, 13, 18, 22, 26, 27 at 1:00PM(60 minutes)
Presented in honor of the National Cherry Blossom Festival
Focus: The Collection
Fate of the Figure in Modern Art
Sally Shelburne
January 4, 10, 18, 22 at 12:00PMMarch 8, 20 at 1:00PM(50 minutes)
Assassinations, Executions, and Beheadings
David Gariff
January 6, 10, 12, 18, 20, 23, 25, 27 at 1:00PM(60 minutes)
Pictures in Paintings
Eric Denker
January 13–16 at 12:00PMFebruary 22, 24 at 12:00PM(60 minutes)
European Painting in the 1950s: Dubuffet and His Contemporaries
Adam Davies
January 17, 20, 27 at 12:00PMJanuary 24, 26 at 1:00PM(50 minutes)
Rothko and the Seagram Mural Commission
Sally Shelburne
January 18, 19 at 2:00PMFebruary 8, 15, 22 at 2:00PM(50 minutes)
Picture This: Old Master Paintings for People with Visual Impairments
Education staff
January 25 at 1:00PMFebruary 22 at 1:00PMMarch 22 at 1:00PMApril 26 at 1:00PM(50 minutes)
Reimagining Courbet in the Reopened French Galleries
Adam Davies
February 2, 3 at 12:00PMFebruary 10–12 at 1:00PM(50 minutes)
Love in Art
David Gariff
February 4, 5, 7, 14, 16, 22, 24, 29 at 1:00PM(60 minutes)
Nineteenth-Century French Painting
Elizabeth Tunick
February 6, 7, 9, 10 at 11:00AM(40 minutes)
"Bishop Saint" by Tilman Riemenschneider
Emily Pegues
February 21, 23, 27 at 12:00PM(20 minutes)
Calder at the National Gallery of Art
David Gariff
March 2, 5–7, 27–29 at 1:00PM(50 minutes)
Modern Lab: Material Interventions
Adam Davies
March 9, 14, 16, 21, 23 at 1:00PM(50 minutes)
"New" French Galleries
Sally Shelburne
March 15, 22 at 1:00PMApril 24, 28 at 1:00PM(60 minutes)
Matthias Grünewald's "The Small Crucifixion"
David Gariff
April 2–6 at 2:00PMApril 14, 15 at 1:00PM(30 minutes)
Three Tudor Portraits: "Sir Brian Tuke," "Edward VI as a Child," and "Robert Devereux, the Second Earl of Essex"
Emily Pegues
April 20, 23 at 12:00PM(60 minutes)
Conversations with Curators and Educators
The French Eighteenth-Century Art of Jean François de Troy
January 24, 25, 30, 31 at 12:00PM(40 minutes)
Yuriko Baccon, assistant curator of French paintings, in conversation with Diane Arkin, lecturer, National Gallery of Art
Adult Programs Workshop
Advance online registration is required and limited to 25 participants per session. Click here to register.
Drawing in the Galleries
Elizabeth Diament and Adam Davies
March 15, 22 at 12:00PM(90 minutes)
Inspired by Morse's Gallery of the Louvre. Materials provided.
Twelve at Twelve
Everything you absolutely must know about this painting in 12 minutes or less!
"Peasants Celebrating Twelfth Night" by David Teniers the Younger
Wilford W. Scott
January 2, 3, 9 at 12:00PM(12 minutes)
"Dancers on a Plane" by Jasper Johns
Sally Shelburne
January 12, 19 at 12:00PMFebruary 15, 29 at 12:00PM(12 minutes)
Netherlandish Tapestry Cushions
Emily Pegues
February 1, 9, 17 at 12:00PM(12 minutes)
"Hieratic Head of Ezra Pound" by Henri Gaudier-Brzeska
Sally Shelburne
March 7, 21 at 12:00PM(12 minutes)
"The Torpedoing of the Tubantia" by Walter Eberbach
Emily Pegues
March 14–16 at 12:00PM(12 minutes)
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
Head On: Chuck Close's Interviews
Heidi Hinish and Nathalie Ryan
February 9, 23 from 12:00PM to 2:00PM
American artist Chuck Close has spent much of his career redefining portraiture using a unique painting process. An interview with the artist will be sent to registered participants to read in advance of the program.
Robert Bresson's Notes on Cinematography
David Gariff
March 1, 15 from 12:00PM to 2:00PM
Online registration begins February 1, 2012, at noon.
On Photography
Adam Davies
April 3, 17 from 12:00PM to 2:00PM
Online registration begins March 2, 2012 at noon.
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