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August 1, 2025

Susan Stockdale courtesy of the author
Talks & Conversations

Storytime: Spectacular Spots

East Building Atrium

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A windmill stands on a promontory cutting into a waterway under a partially stormy sky in this square landscape painting.
Talks & Conversations

The Art of Looking: Rembrandt van Rijn, The Mill

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August 2, 2025

Festivals

First Saturdays

Each month, join us for a fun and relaxed experience featuring art making, films, and a variety of special pop-up activities. All activities are free, and most are first come, first served. Some activities require registration. Learn More about First Saturdays

10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

Susan Stockdale courtesy of the author
Talks & Conversations
Storytime: Spectacular Spots

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East Building Atrium

August 10, 2025

Modernist Visions

Join us for a four-part lecture series about the bold transformation of modern art at the turn of the 20th century. Upending the traditional idea of art as a “mirror of reality,” artists grappled with profound questions: What is the purpose of painting? What can it truly express? Learn More about Modernist Visions

11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

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Shown from the chest up, a man with short, orange hair and green-tinted, pale skin looks at us, wearing a vivid blue painter's smock in this vertical portrait painting. His smock and the background are painted with long, mostly parallel strokes of cobalt, azure, and lapis blue. His shoulders are angled to our left, and he looks at us from the corners of his blue eyes. He has a long, slightly bumped nose, and his lips are closed within a full, rust-orange beard. He holds a palette and paintbrushes in his left hand, in the lower left corner of the canvas. The background is painted with long brushstrokes that follow the contours of his head and torso to create an aura-like effect.
Talks & Conversations
The Art, Life, and Letters of Vincent van Gogh

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East Building Auditorium

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August 15, 2025

Black lines and one small, black triangular shape stand out against patches of color, in indigo and sky blue, pumpkin orange, butter yellow, emerald green, and ruby red, against a white background in this vertical, abstract painting. The paint seems thinly applied, resembling watercolor. Near the lower right corner, the black shape is roughly triangular and has five curving, parallel lines emanating from the bottom. Given the title of this painting, Improvisation 31, Sea Battle, the black lines could represent tall masts and outlines of sails amid areas of vibrant color that make up a boat and water around it.
Talks & Conversations

The Art of Looking: Wassily Kandinsky, Improvisation 31 (Sea Battle)

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August 24, 2025

Talks & Conversations

American Landscapes in Watercolor from the Corcoran Collection

East Building Auditorium

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September 5, 2025

Visitors enjoy Storytime in the National Gallery's East Building.
Talks & Conversations

Storytime: Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?

East Building Atrium

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Talks & Conversations

The Art of Looking: Jules Breton, The Cliff (La Falaise)

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September 6, 2025

Festivals

First Saturdays

Each month, join us for a fun and relaxed experience featuring art making, films, and a variety of special pop-up activities. All activities are free, and most are first come, first served. Some activities require registration. Learn More about First Saturdays

10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

A very young visitor reading a children's book with a pacifier in it's mouth.
Talks & Conversations
Storytime: Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?

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East Building Atrium
A glass holding a loose bouquet of flowers set within an oval is surrounded by eight insects against an off-white surface in this vertical still life painting. It is impossible to tell whether the oval is an opening piercing the white surface or if the still life is an oval-shaped painting sitting on top of the white surface. The glass holding the flowers has straight, slightly flaring sides with a ring of textured knubs around the bottom third. Flowers in the glass include a white lily of the valley, yellow and purple violet, blue grape hyacinth, yellow narcissus, red poppy, upside-down cup-shaped pink snake’s head fritillary, and stems of greenery. The bouquet is lit from the left, and a ray of light focused by the glass falls across the back edge of the wooden ledge on which the glass sits. Two drops of water bead on the ledge, and the artist signed the front face of the ledge, “CLARA P.” The background behind the flowers within the oval is black. The bugs on the white surface are much larger in scale, painted precisely so anatomical details can be made out. Across the top are a dragonfly with a green body, a house fly with red eyes, and a dragonfly with a red body. A fuzzy caterpillar is to the left of the oval and a hornet is to the right. Across the bottom are a snail, a ladybug, and a beetle with a black body and red wings and legs.
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Conservation is a Logic of Love

East Building Auditorium

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