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Glenn Ligon | nga
On March 15, 2013, Glenn Ligon discussed the layers of history, meaning, and physical material of three of his works in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Art. The painting Untitled (I Am a Man), acquired in 2012 through the Patrons' Permanent Fund and as a gift of the artist, and a pair of prints given by the artist entitled Condition Report (2000) served as the backdrop for this interview. The painted neon sculpture Double America (2012), gift of Agnes Gund, is also featured. The interview followed Ligon’s presentation of the 20th annual Elson Lecture, A Conversation with Glenn Ligon.
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Reflections on the Collection: The Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professors at the National Gallery of Art: Marc Fumaroli on Jean Honoré Fragonard’s Landscape Paintings (c. 1775/1780)Released: January 21, 2020
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Reflections on the Collection: The Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professors at the National Gallery of Art: Marc Fumaroli on Jean Honoré Fragonard’s Landscape Paintings (c. 1775/1780)Released: January 21, 2020
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Art and Photography in the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, Part IIReleased: January 21, 2020
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Art and Photography in the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, Part IReleased: January 21, 2020
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Verrocchio’s Medici Tombs: New Observations and Technical AnalysisReleased: January 14, 2020
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The Sydney J. Freedberg Lecture on Italian Art: Andrea Mantegna’s Stones, Caves, and CloudsReleased: January 14, 2020
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Executed En Masse: Early Modern Portrait Prints at the National Gallery of ArtReleased: December 17, 2019
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Cima da Conegliano and Venetian Landscape PaintingReleased: December 10, 2019
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Collaborations and Investigations in Sound: Alex Braden and Emily Francisco in ConversationReleased: December 10, 2019
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Instructional Videos: Didactic Documentary for the Postmodern EraReleased: December 10, 2019
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Fifteenth-Century Florentine and Tuscan Sculpture in the National Gallery of ArtReleased: December 03, 2019
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Photography and Nation Building in the Nineteenth CenturyReleased: December 03, 2019
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Introduction to the Exhibition—The Touch of Color: Pastels at the National Gallery of ArtReleased: November 19, 2019
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The Living Legacy National Speaking Tour: David C. Driskell and Curlee R. Holton in ConversationReleased: November 19, 2019
(74:53 minutes)
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Introduction to the Exhibition—The Touch of Color: Pastels at the National Gallery of ArtReleased: November 19, 2019
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Interview with Richard Mosse, 2017, produced by Michael Kurcfeld, 10 minutes, Courtesy Michael Kurcfeld and Paris PhotoReleased: November 17, 2019
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The Living Legacy National Speaking Tour: David C. Driskell and Curlee R. Holton in ConversationReleased: November 19, 2019
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2019 Summer Sunday Lecture Series: Celebrating the Old Master Collections of the National Gallery of Art: French Art of the 18th CenturyReleased: October 22, 2019
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2019 Summer Sunday Lecture Series: Celebrating the Old Master Collections of the National Gallery of Art: Central Italian Painting, 1300–1520Released: October 22, 2019
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2019 Summer Lecture Series: Celebrating the Old Master Collections of the National Gallery of Art: Masterpieces of American Furniture from the Kaufman Collection, 1700–1830Released: October 22, 2019
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2019 Summer Lecture Series: Celebrating the Old Master Collections of the National Gallery of Art: American Painting, 1700–1900Released: October 22, 2019
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2019 Summer Sunday Lecture Series: Celebrating the Old Master Collections of the National Gallery of Art: British Painting, 1700–1850Released: October 22, 2019
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2019 Summer Sunday Lecture Series: Celebrating the Old Master Collections of the National Gallery of Art: Venetian Painting, 1350–1800Released: October 22, 2019
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2019 Summer Sunday Lecture Series: Celebrating the Old Master Collections of the National Gallery of Art: Dutch Art of the Golden Age, 1600–1675Released: October 22, 2019
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2019 Summer Sunday Lecture Series: I. M. Pei: A Celebration of His Life and WorkReleased: October 29, 2019
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The End of the Sixties: Kerry James Marshall’s “Mementos”Released: October 29, 2019
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The End of the Sixties: Kerry James Marshall’s “Mementos”Released: October 29, 2019
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Alonso Berruguete: First Sculptor of Renaissance SpainReleased: October 08, 2019
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American Pre-Raphaelitism through the Lens and on the CanvasReleased: September 24, 2019
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Verrocchio: Sculptor and Painter of Renaissance FlorenceReleased: September 15, 2019
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Space Was the Place: An Abbreviated History of Washington, DC Arts VenuesReleased: September 10, 2019
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Signed JV, but not by Vermeer: Jacobus Vrel’s “Young Woman in an Interior”Released: July 30, 2019
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2019 Summer Sunday Lecture Series: I. M. Pei: A Celebration of His Life and WorkReleased: July 30, 2019
(61:40 minutes)
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From the Cathedral to the Billiard Room: Tracing the History of a Medieval Stained Glass Window from the William A. Clark CollectionReleased: July 30, 2019
(35:31 minutes)
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Signed JV, but not by Vermeer: Jacobus Vrel’s “Young Woman in an Interior”Released: July 30, 2019
(36:47 minutes)
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Reflections on the Collection: The Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professors at the National Gallery of Art: Richard J. Powell on Archibald J. Motley Jr., Portrait of My Grandmother (1922)Released: July 16, 2019
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Reflections on the Collection: The Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professors at the National Gallery of Art: Richard J. Powell on Archibald J. Motley Jr., Portrait of My Grandmother (1922)Released: July 16, 2019
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The Roles and Representations of Animals in Japanese Art and Culture, Part 7—Animals in Contemporary Japanese Art and FashionReleased: July 09, 2019
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The Roles and Representations of Animals in Japanese Art and Culture, Part 6—Art, Science, and the Representation of NatureReleased: July 09, 2019
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The Roles and Representations of Animals in Japanese Art and Culture, Part 5—Let the Animals Speak: The Language of Animals in JapanReleased: July 09, 2019
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The Roles and Representations of Animals in Japanese Art and Culture, Part 4—East Meets West: The Introduction of Exotic Animals to JapanReleased: July 09, 2019
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The Roles and Representations of Animals in Japanese Art and Culture, Part 3—Bookish Beasts: Reading Animals in Japanese Illustrated FictionReleased: July 09, 2019
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The Roles and Representations of Animals in Japanese Art and Culture, Part 2—A Compassionate Heart for Pitiful Beasts: Animals in Japanese ReligionsReleased: July 09, 2019
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The Roles and Representations of Animals in Japanese Art and Culture, Part 1—The War of the Twelve Animals: Anthropomorphosis and Allegory in Medieval JapanReleased: July 09, 2019
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USCO: Films and Performance with 1960s Multimedia PioneersReleased: April 23, 2019
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By the Light of the Silvery Moon: The Apollo 11 MissionReleased: July 09, 2019
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If I Survive: Frederick Douglass and Family in the Walter O. Evans CollectionReleased: July 02, 2019
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The Sixty-Eighth A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: End as Beginning: Chinese Art and Dynastic Time, Part 6: End as Beginning: Dynastic Time and RevolutionReleased: May 14, 2019
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If I Survive: Frederick Douglass and Family in the Walter O. Evans CollectionReleased: July 02, 2019
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Tintoretto Lecture Series, Part 4—In Situ: Tintoretto in VeniceReleased: June 25, 2019
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Tintoretto Lecture Series, Part 3—Tintoretto Central: The Scuola Grande di San RoccoReleased: June 25, 2019
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Tintoretto Lecture Series, Part 2—Tintoretto: The Early WorkReleased: June 25, 2019
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Tintoretto Lecture Series, Part 1—Tintoretto in Context: Framing Tintoretto: Sixteenth-Century Venetian PaintingReleased: June 25, 2019
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Introduction to the Exhibition—The Life of Animals in Japanese ArtReleased: June 25, 2019
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Introduction to the Exhibition—The Life of Animals in Japanese ArtReleased: June 25, 2019
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Tintoretto Lecture Series, Part 4—In Situ: Tintoretto in VeniceReleased: June 25, 2019
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Tintoretto Lecture Series, Part 3—Tintoretto Central: The Scuola Grande di San RoccoReleased: June 25, 2019
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Tintoretto Lecture Series, Part 2—Tintoretto: The Early WorkReleased: June 25, 2019
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Tintoretto Lecture Series, Part 1—Tintoretto in Context: Framing Tintoretto: Sixteenth-Century Venetian PaintingReleased: June 25, 2019
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The Sixty-Eighth A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: End as Beginning: Chinese Art and Dynastic Time, Part 5: Art of Absence: Voices of the Remnant SubjectReleased: May 07, 2019
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Model Citizens: Frances Benjamin Johnston at the Tuskegee InstituteReleased: June 18, 2019
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Introduction to the Exhibition—The American Pre-Raphaelites: Radical RealistsReleased: June 18, 2019
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Mastering Tradition: An Artist Awakening through Practicing the PastReleased: May 28, 2019
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The Sixty-Eighth A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: End as Beginning: Chinese Art and Dynastic Time, Part 2: Reconfiguring the World: The First Emperor’s Art ProjectsReleased: May 28, 2019
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Introduction to the Exhibition—Tintoretto: Artist of Renaissance VeniceReleased: May 21, 2019
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The Sixty-Eighth A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: End as Beginning: Chinese Art and Dynastic Time, Part 1: The Emergence of Dynastic Time in Chinese ArtReleased: May 14, 2019
(63:41 minutes)
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The Sixty-Eighth A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: End as Beginning: Chinese Art and Dynastic Time, Part 6: End as Beginning: Dynastic Time and RevolutionReleased: May 14, 2019
(60:27 minutes)
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Black Dreams at Sea: The Sardine Fisherman’s Funeral and An Opera of the WorldReleased: May 07, 2019
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Black Dreams at Sea: The Sardine Fisherman’s Funeral and An Opera of the WorldReleased: May 07, 2019
(46:26 minutes)
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The Sixty-Eighth A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: End as Beginning: Chinese Art and Dynastic Time, Part 5: Art of Absence: Voices of the Remnant SubjectReleased: May 07, 2019
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Hip-Hop’s Great Day: Gordon Parks and a Legacy of Photographic InspirationReleased: April 30, 2019
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The Sixty-Eighth A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: End as Beginning: Chinese Art and Dynastic Time, Part 3: Conflicting Temporalities: Heaven’s Mandate and Its AntithesesReleased: April 16, 2019
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The Sixty-Eighth A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: End as Beginning: Chinese Art and Dynastic Time, Part 2: Reconfiguring the World: The First Emperor’s Art ProjectsReleased: April 09, 2019
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The Sixty-Eighth A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: End as Beginning: Chinese Art and Dynastic Time, Part 1: The Emergence of Dynastic Time in Chinese ArtReleased: April 02, 2019
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The Art of Light: A Conversation with Charles Ross and James MeyerReleased: March 26, 2019
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The Art of Light: A Conversation with Charles Ross and James MeyerReleased: March 26, 2019
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John Wilmerding Symposium on American Art 2018, Part 4: Frederick Douglass, “The Greek Slave,” and the Politics of Sculptural ReproductionReleased: April 17, 2018
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John Wilmerding Symposium on American Art 2018, Part 4: Frederick Douglass, “The Greek Slave,” and the Politics of Sculptural ReproductionReleased: April 17, 2018
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Suffering, Struggle, Survival: The Activism, Artistry, and Authorship of Frederick DouglassReleased: March 20, 2018
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Suffering, Struggle, Survival: The Activism, Artistry, and Authorship of Frederick DouglassReleased: February 27, 2018
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