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Guided Tours

Comprendiendo el arte moderno y contemporáneo

East Building, Ground Level, Atrium

1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.

Guided Tours

Sculpture Garden Tours

Sculpture Garden

2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Two visitors with their back to us look at an abstract geometric painting hanging on a white wall. The woman has long dark hair, and is gesturing her hand towards the painting. The man has a grey baseball cap, and short hair.

Guided Tours

Understanding Modern and Contemporary Art

East Building, Ground Level, Atrium

2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.

A woman showing a man and a woman a painting at the National Gallery of Art.

Guided Tours

American Art

West Building, Main Floor, Rotunda

1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

Guided Tours

Impressionism and 19th-Century France

West Building, Main Floor, Rotunda

3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Guided Tours

The Collection, Up Close

West Building, Main Floor, Rotunda

11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Block Party

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May 13, 2026

INTERACTIVE ARTICLE

The Feminine Enigma of Cecilia Beaux’s Sita and Sarita

It’s just a picture of a woman and her cat—or is it?

By Annie Yi

A woman with pale skin and dressed in white sits on a couch gazing into the distance to our left as she raises one arm to stroke a black cat perched on her shoulder in this vertical portrait. Shown from the lap up, the woman’s dress has voluminous, puffed, elbow-length sleeves and a high collar, and her narrow waist is cinched with a white sash. Her dark brown hair is parted down the middle and tied back, and she has pale blue eyes and pink lips. She reaches up to the cat with her left hand, on our right, and her other hand, farther from us, rests flat in her lap. The black cat looks at us with greenish-yellow eyes as it almost disappears into the dark brown background above the white couch, which is decorated with a blue pattern. The artist signed the work with dark letters in the lower left corner: “Cecilia Beaux.”

Films

Every Contact Leaves a Trace with Grazing on Images

East Building, Concourse, Large Auditorium

11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

Registration Required

Films

Barbara Forever!

East Building, Concourse, Large Auditorium

2:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Registration Required

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Comprendiendo el arte moderno y contemporáneo

Sculpture Garden Tours

Understanding Modern and Contemporary Art

American Art

Impressionism and 19th-Century France

The Collection, Up Close

Block Party

The Feminine Enigma of Cecilia Beaux’s Sita and Sarita

Every Contact Leaves a Trace with Grazing on Images

Barbara Forever!

West Building

East Building

Sculpture Garden

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