1. Hopper Exhibition and Web Feature

The much-anticipated Edward Hopper exhibition is opening September 16. This is the first comprehensive survey of Edward Hopper's career to be seen in American museums outside New York in more than 25 years. Focusing on the period of the artist's great achievements—from about 1925 to midcentury—the exhibition will feature such iconic paintings as Automat (1927), Drug Store (1927), Early Sunday Morning (1930), New York Movie (1939), and Nighthawks (1942).
http://www.nga/hopper

Learn more about this landmark exhibition in our interactive feature about the exhibition. The feature investigates the main themes in Hopper's art, presents an extensive timeline of his works, allows a closer look into some of his iconic images, and screens a three-minute teaser of the exhibition film.
http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2007/hopper/introduction/index.htm

2. Cell-Phone Tour

The National Gallery of Art is excited to offer its first cell-phone tour. Visitors to the East Building may call the number and learn about eleven different artworks in the collection. Callers can hear I. M. Pei discuss his design of the East Building and the importance of sculpture in relation to his architecture. Leah Dickerman and Molly Donovan from the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art narrate the tour. Call 202.595.1857 and press 1#–11# (eleven stops) to listen.
http://www.nga.gov/cell

3. New Behind the Scenes

For the first time in September the National Gallery of Art's audio series "Behind the Scenes" will be available in iTunes. Enjoy your favorite episodes of ArtTalk, NGA Conversations, and Backstory. Look for new episodes the first Tuesday of every month. This month learn about the making of the Edward Hopper exhibition film with producer Carroll Moore and about the upcoming Hopper opera.
http://www.nga.gov/podcasts

4. This Month's Featured Artwork: Symphony in White, No. 1: The White Girl, 1862, by James McNeill Whistler

When Whistler submitted The White Girl to the Paris Salon in 1863, the tradition-bound jury refused to show the work. Napoleon III invited avant-garde artists who had been denied official space to show their paintings in a Salon des Refuse, an exhibition that triggered enormous controversy. Whistler's work met with severe public derision, but a number of artists and critics praised his entry. In the Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Paul Manz referred to it as a "symphony in white," noting a musical correlation to Whistler's paintings that the artist himself would address in the early 1870s, when he retitled a number of works using the words Nocturne, Arrangement, Harmony, and Symphony.
Learn more at: http://www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/pinfo?Object=12203+0+none

5. Mel Bochner on iTunes

Over the course of three days, February 14–16, 2007, Mel Bochner and his assistant Nicholas Knight installed Theory of Boundaries at the National Gallery of Art in the East Building, Concourse Gallery 29F. The work, whose size is determined by the length of the wall on which it is installed, consists of four squares of equal size, each separated by a space equal to one-third of the width of a single square. Dry pigment is applied directly to the wall, with each square following the principles determined by its "language fraction" (hence the work's title, Theory of Boundaries); thus, each square represents a different relationship between colored surface, border, and state of enclosure. You can now view the video on iTunes as well as on the NGA Web site.
http://www.nga.gov/podcasts

6. Upcoming exhibitions: Turner and Snapshot

Two major exhibitions are opening in October at the National Gallery of Art. J. M. W. Turner, the largest and most comprehensive retrospective of Turner's work ever presented in the United States, includes approximately 70 oil paintings and 70 works on paper. The Art of the American Snapshot, 1888–1978: From the Collection of Robert E. Jackson, an exhibition of approximately 200 snapshots, chronicles the evolution of snapshot photography from 1888, when George Eastman first introduced the Kodak camera and roll film, through the 1970s.
http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/turnerinfo.shtm
http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/snapshotinfo.shtm

7. Go Back to School with The National Gallery of Art

Online Education Loan Finder
View a searchable library of more than 120 teaching packets, videos, and DVDs on various art periods, artists, and cultures available on loan, free-of-charge, to educators, institutions, community organizations, and individuals. Borrow our newest teaching packets, such as Picturing France: 1830–1900 and Islamic Art and Culture, which include in-depth, illustrated booklets; large color reproductions suitable for posting in the classroom; and slides and image CDs.
http://www.nga.gov/education/classroom/loanfinder/

NGA Classroom: Online Resources for Teachers and Students
Access NGA Classroom, our online compendium of electronic teaching resources. Here you'll find dynamic in-depth studies on individual works, artists, and periods as well as printable guides and classroom lesson plans. Users can search by artist, topic, or curricular theme to find information on subjects ranging from ancient Chinese art and archaeology to Dada, the World War I-era movement.
http://www.nga.gov/education/classroom

8. September Calendar of Events

Plan your visit to the Gallery with the help of the August Calendar of Events. Schedules of films, lectures, gallery talks, family activities, and concerts are listed along with information about each event.
http://www.nga.gov/ginfo/calendar.htm