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"Sound Thoughts on Art" trailer
The arts can engage all our senses, but it’s in the crossover between them that things really get interesting. When we listen to music, what do we see in our mind’s eye? When we look at a work of art, what do we hear? Sound Thoughts on Art, a new podcast from the National Gallery of Art, explores the intersection of sight and sound.
Hosted by musician and journalist Celeste Headlee, each episode focuses on a work of art in the National Gallery’s collection. Learn about the work and its context and hear a musician respond to that work through sound, creating a dialogue between visual art and music. Sound Thoughts on Art tells the stories of how we experience art and how it connects us.
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“the artifice of justice”: A Conversation with Reginald Dwayne Betts, Candice C. Jones, and Richard Ross
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The Sydney J. Freedberg Lecture on Italian Art 2020: Telling the Past Differently: Italian Renaissance Art in the Hands of the Beholder
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Reflections on the Collection: The Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professors at the National Gallery of Art: David Bomford on Édouard Manet’s The Railway (1873)
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John Wilmerding Symposium on American Art 2020, A Tribute to David C. Driskell: Part 5, “Prowl” by Jefferson Pinder
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John Wilmerding Symposium on American Art 2020, A Tribute to David C. Driskell: Part 4, The Cultural Cartographer: The Invaluable Art Roadmaps of David C. Driskell
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John Wilmerding Symposium on American Art 2020, A Tribute to David C. Driskell: Part 3, Torchbearer of a Legacy
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John Wilmerding Symposium on American Art 2020, A Tribute to David C. Driskell: Part 2, Studio Visit with Curlee Raven Holton
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John Wilmerding Symposium on American Art 2020, A Tribute to David C. Driskell: Part 1, Joy Cometh in the Morning
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2020 Summer Lecture Series: Staycation: Modern Masters of the French Riviera
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2020 Summer Lecture Series: Staycation: Milan: A Tale of Two Cities
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2020 Summer Lecture Series: Staycation: Milan: A Tale of Two Cities
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Blurred Identities: The Art and Audience of Lynching Photography
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Black Opera as Architecture: A Conversation with Kimberly Drew, Alicia Hall Moran, and Imani Uzuri
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Local to Global: Teaching Critical Thinking through Art—the Gallery's first Massive Open Online Course
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Cats in the National Gallery of Art's Permanent Collection
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Art and Photography in the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, Part I
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Coding Our Collection: The National Gallery of Art Datathon
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Wyeth Lecture in American Art 2019: Art Is an Excuse: Conceptual Strategies, 1968–1983
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The Problem with Renoir: A Hard Look at the Artist on the Centennial of His Death
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Wyeth Lecture in American Art 2019: Art Is an Excuse: Conceptual Strategies, 1968–1983
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Coding Our Collection: The National Gallery of Art Datathon
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Reflections on the Collection: The Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professors at the National Gallery of Art: Cecilia Frosinini on Giotto’s Madonna and Child (c. 1310/1315)
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Introduction to the Exhibition-Raphael and His Circle
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Painting in the Open Air: A Conversation with Ann Lofquist
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Introduction to the Exhibition—Alonso Berruguete: First Sculptor of Renaissance Spain
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The Sydney J. Freedberg Lecture on Italian Art: Andrea Mantegna’s Stones, Caves, and Clouds
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Before the Kodak Girl: Women in Nineteenth-Century Photography
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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)
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Art and Photography in the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, Part II
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Art and Photography in the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, Part I
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Photography and Nation Building in the Nineteenth Century
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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 Century
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Space Was the Place: An Abbreviated History of Washington, DC Arts Venues