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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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Recent Additions
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“the artifice of justice”: A Conversation with Reginald Dwayne Betts, Candice C. Jones, and Richard RossReleased: January 29, 2021
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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 BeholderReleased: October 30, 2020
(1111 minutes)
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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)Released: September 24, 2020
(11:11 minutes)
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John Wilmerding Symposium on American Art 2020, A Tribute to David C. Driskell: Part 5, “Prowl” by Jefferson PinderReleased: September 17, 2020
(7:47 minutes)
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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. DriskellReleased: September 10, 2020
(10:13 minutes)
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John Wilmerding Symposium on American Art 2020, A Tribute to David C. Driskell: Part 3, Torchbearer of a LegacyReleased: September 10, 2020
(10:29 minutes)
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John Wilmerding Symposium on American Art 2020, A Tribute to David C. Driskell: Part 2, Studio Visit with Curlee Raven HoltonReleased: September 10, 2020
(16:29 minutes)
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John Wilmerding Symposium on American Art 2020, A Tribute to David C. Driskell: Part 1, Joy Cometh in the MorningReleased: September 10, 2020
(19:42 minutes)
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2020 Summer Lecture Series: Staycation: Modern Masters of the French RivieraReleased: August 07, 2020
(76:15 minutes)
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2020 Summer Lecture Series: Staycation: Milan: A Tale of Two CitiesReleased: July 31, 2020
(76:15 minutes)
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2020 Summer Lecture Series: Staycation: Milan: A Tale of Two CitiesReleased: July 31, 2020
(76:15 minutes)
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Blurred Identities: The Art and Audience of Lynching PhotographyReleased: July 14, 2020
(32:14 minutes)
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Black Opera as Architecture: A Conversation with Kimberly Drew, Alicia Hall Moran, and Imani UzuriReleased: June 30, 2020
(69:18 minutes)
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Local to Global: Teaching Critical Thinking through Art—the Gallery's first Massive Open Online CourseReleased: June 09, 2020
(34:04 minutes)
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Cats in the National Gallery of Art's Permanent CollectionReleased: April 21, 2020
(64:59 minutes)
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Art and Photography in the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, Part IReleased: April 14, 2020
(117:59 minutes)
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Coding Our Collection: The National Gallery of Art DatathonReleased: April 07, 2020
(74:18 minutes)
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Wyeth Lecture in American Art 2019: Art Is an Excuse: Conceptual Strategies, 1968–1983Released: April 02, 2020
(54:57 minutes)
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The Problem with Renoir: A Hard Look at the Artist on the Centennial of His DeathReleased: April 07, 2020
(65:21 minutes)
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Wyeth Lecture in American Art 2019: Art Is an Excuse: Conceptual Strategies, 1968–1983Released: April 02, 2020
(54:57 minutes)
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Coding Our Collection: The National Gallery of Art DatathonReleased: April 07, 2020
(74:18 minutes)
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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)Released: March 31, 2020
(10:07 minutes)
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Introduction to the Exhibition-Raphael and His CircleReleased: March 24, 2020
(59:23 minutes)
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Painting in the Open Air: A Conversation with Ann LofquistReleased: March 17, 2020
(62:29 minutes)
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Introduction to the Exhibition—Alonso Berruguete: First Sculptor of Renaissance SpainReleased: February 11, 2020
(39:16 minutes)
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The Sydney J. Freedberg Lecture on Italian Art: Andrea Mantegna’s Stones, Caves, and CloudsReleased: January 14, 2020
(55:30 minutes)
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Before the Kodak Girl: Women in Nineteenth-Century PhotographyReleased: January 28, 2020
(54:08 minutes)
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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
(7:33 minutes)
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Art and Photography in the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, Part IIReleased: January 21, 2020
(127:37 minutes)
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Art and Photography in the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, Part IReleased: January 21, 2020
(117:59 minutes)
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Photography and Nation Building in the Nineteenth CenturyReleased: December 03, 2019
(45:54 minutes)
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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
(106:24 minutes)
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Space Was the Place: An Abbreviated History of Washington, DC Arts VenuesReleased: September 10, 2019
(48:06 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
(11:01 minutes)
