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Advance Exhibition Schedule

Corot: Women
September 9–December 31, 2018

Dawoud Bey: The Birmingham Project
September 12, 2018 – March 17, 2019

The Chiaroscuro Woodcut in Renaissance Italy
October 14, 2018 – January 20, 2019

Gordon Parks: The New Tide, Early Work 1940–1950
November 4, 2018–January 6, 2019

Tintoretto: Artist of Renaissance Venice
March 10–July 7, 2019

Current Exhibitions

Sense of Humor
July 15, 2018–January 6, 2019

Water, Wind, and Waves: Marine Paintings from the Dutch Golden Age
July 1–November 25, 2018

Sharing Images: Renaissance Prints into Maiolica and Bronze
April 1–August 5, 2018

Jackson Pollock's "Mural"
November 19, 2017–October 28, 2018

Special Installations

Leo Villareal, Multiverse
on view indefinitely

Andy Goldsworthy, Roof
on view indefinitely

Masterpieces of American Furniture from the Kaufman Collection, 1700–1830
on view indefinitely

Exhibitions On Tour

Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, June 30–September 23, 2018
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, November 20, 2018–February 10, 2019
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, March 3–May 27, 2019
Jeu de Paume, Paris, June 17 –September 22, 2019
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, October 19, 2019 –January 12, 2020

Outliers and American Vanguard Art
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, June 24–September 30, 2018
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, November 18, 2018–March 18, 2019

Michel Sittow: Estonian Painter at the Courts of Renaissance Europe
Art Museum of Estonia/Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, June 8–September 16, 2018

Recent News Releases

June 22, 2018
Dawoud Bey's Poignant "The Birmingham Project" on View at National Gallery of Art, September 12, 2018, through March 17, 2019
First Comprehensive Exhibition of Chiaroscuro Woodcuts from Italian Renaissance on View at National Gallery of Art, October 14, 2018, through January 20, 2019
June 22, 2018
Fall Season of Free Concerts Features New Pop-Up Concert Series, Music by Gordon Parks, and Washington Premiere by Theremin Virtuoso Carolina Eyck
June 21, 2018
National Gallery of Art Awards 14 Summer Internships in Wide Variety of Curatorial, Educational, Administrative, and Other Roles
June 7, 2018
National Gallery of Art 2018 Summer Film Program Features Ingmar Bergman Centennial, Ciné-Concerts, Washington Premieres, Archival Retrospectives, and Discussions with Filmmakers
June 5, 2018
Hyperspectral Near-Infrared Imaging of Picasso Blue Period Painting Reveals French Newsprint and Earlier Works Beneath Painting's Surface
May 25, 2018
First Exhibition to Chronicle Formative Beginning of Gordon Parks's Career Premieres at the National Gallery of Art on November 4, 2018
Major Conservation Treatment of Tiepolo's Monumental Bacchus and Ariadne Reveals Hidden Details. Painting goes on view June 14, 2018
Exhibition Celebrating History of Humor in Prints and Drawings Opens at National Gallery of Art on July 15
May 11, 2018
Wu Hung of the University of Chicago Presents the 68th Annual A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts in 2019 at the National Gallery of Art, Washington
Major Exhibition of Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot's Paintings of Women; National Gallery of Art is the Only Venue, September 9 through December 31, 2018
May 10, 2017
Monet's Study for "The Artist's Garden at Vétheuil" Shown with National Gallery of Art Painting for First Time as Part of Norton Simon Loan Exchange
April 16, 2018
Major Photographic Archive of Art and Architecture Celebrates 75th Anniversary with Installation at National Gallery of Art
April 12, 2018
National Gallery of Art Exhibition of Golden Age Paintings Explores Connections Between Birth of Dutch Nationhood and Marine Genre
April 6, 2018
National Gallery of Art, Washington Launches Director Search with Firm Phillips Oppenheim
March 16, 2018
National Gallery of Art Welcomes New Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellows
March 1, 2018
National Gallery of Art's Free Jazz in the Garden Concert Series Returns on Friday, May 18, 2018
December 19, 2017
Major Portrait Bust by Celebrated Sculptor David d'Angers Acquired by National Gallery of Art, Washington
December 7, 2017
500th Anniversary of Jacopo Tintoretto's Birth Celebrated in Exhibitions in Venice, New York, and Washington, DC
December 6, 2017
Influence of Renaissance Prints on Maiolica and Bronze Explored at the National Gallery of Art, April 1–August 5, 2018
November 30, 2017
Rare Early Work by Morris Louis and Bound Photographic Album by Ringl + Pit Enter the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington
November 28, 2017
Major Exhibition of Paul Cézanne's Portraits at the National Gallery of Art, March 25 through July 8, 2018
November 16, 2017
Prints of La Verna Explore Franciscan Imagery at the National Gallery of Art, February 25 through July 8, 2018
November 7, 2017
National Gallery of Art Celebrates 25-Year Anniversary of Director Earl A. Powell III; 2019 Retirement Announced
November 2, 2017
Jackson Pollock's Largest Painting Makes DC Debut at the National Gallery of Art, Washington
April 29, 2016
Catalogue Raisonné of Mark Rothko's Works on Paper to be Published by National Gallery of Art, Washington

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