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Leo Villareal, artist, in conversation with Molly Donovan, associate curator of modern and contemporary art, National Gallery of Art
Nancy Anderson, curator of American and British paintings, National Gallery of Art
Book signing of George de Forest Brush: The Indian Paintings follows
Helen Tangires, administrator, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art
Book signing of Public Markets follows
Rafael Moneo, architect; Miguel Zugaza, director, Museo Nacional del Prado; and Selma Holo, director of Fisher Gallery and professor of art history, University of Southern California
This program is coordinated with and supported by the Embassy of Spain in Washington, DC.John Elderfield, chief curator emeritus of painting and sculpture, Museum of Modern Art
Charles Palermo, associate professor of art history, The College of William and Mary
Book signing of Fixed Ecstasy: Joan Miró in the 1920s follows
Carol Mattusch, Mathy Professor of Art History, George Mason University
Martin M. Winkler, professor of classics at George Mason University and editor of the recent and forthcoming essay collections Gladiator, Troy, Spartacus, and The Fall of the Roman Empire, will present an illustrated lecture on the destruction of Pompeii as impulse for the popular imagination, focusing especially on Edward Bulwer-Lytton's 1834 novel The Last Days of Pompeii and its adaptations to stage and screen.
Jan Lievens in Black and White: Etchings, Woodcuts, and Collaborations in Print
Arthur Wheelock, curator of northern baroque paintings, National Gallery of Art
Stephanie S. Dickey, Bader Chair in Northern Baroque Art, Queen’s University
Peter Schjeldahl, senior art critic, New Yorker magazine
Book signing of Let’s See: Writings on Art from the New Yorker follows
Paul Zanker, professor of art history, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
Collectors Dorothy and Herbert Vogel in conversation with Ruth Fine, curator of special projects in modern art, National Gallery of Art
Calvin Tomkins, author and staff writer of The New Yorker, in conversation with Harry Cooper, curator of modern and contemporary art, National Gallery of Art
Book signing of Lives of the Artists follows
Marcello Simonetta, writer and historian
Book signing of The Montefeltro Conspiracy: A Renaissance Mystery Decoded follows
Conrad Rudolph, professor of medieval art history, University of California at Riverside
Harry Cooper, curator and head of modern and contemporary art, National Gallery of Art
John Hand, curator of northern Renaissance paintings, National Gallery of Art
Rosamond Mack, independent scholar
Douglas Brine, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art
Kimberly Schenck, head of paper conservation, National Gallery of Art
Jennifer Wagelie, department of academic programs, National Gallery of Art
Conrad Rudolph, professor of medieval art history, University of California at Riverside
The Diamonstein-Spielvogel Lecture Series provides a forum for distinguished artists to discuss the genesis and evolution of their work in their own words. Dr. Barbaralee Diamonstein–Spielvogel and the Honorable Carl Spielvogel generously endowed this series in 1997 to make such conversations available to the public.
Rachel Whiteread, artist, in conversation with Molly Donovan, associate curator of modern and contemporary art, National Gallery of Art
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