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• A Sculptor Looks at Rodin's Work
• Concerning America, and Alfred Stieglitz, and Myself
• Art and Espionage: Michael Straight's Giorgione
• Picasso and the Concept of the Masterpiece
• Living with the Dead in France: Nineteenth-Century Tomb Sculpture
• Painting in Emilia
• Tony Smith at 100 Symposium, Part III: The Tony Smith Experience and Q and A Session
• Tony Smith at 100 Symposium, Part II: Tony Smith: X Marks the Spot
• Tony Smith at 100 Symposium, Part I: Introductory Remarks and "Dream of the Proper Context": Tony Smith, the Abstract Expressionists' Architect
• Collecting for Quality: The Kaufman Collection of American Furniture, 1725-1825
• Lodovico Carracci: Observations on a Faulted Genius
• The Lion in Great Age: Titian's Last Painting
• George Bellows Symposium, Part VII: The Late Work of George Bellows and the Question of Modernity
• The Collecting of African American Art IX: Collecting Black: An Anachronism
• George Bellows Symposium, Part VI: The Ashcan Goes to War: Bellows, Belligerence, and the Rape of Belgium
• The Sydney J. Freedberg Lecture on Italian Art 2012: "Not a painting, but a Vision!": Raphael's Sistine Madonna Turns Five Hundred
• George Bellows Symposium, Part V: Sunday in the Park with George Bellows
• George Bellows Symposium, Part IV: "The infant terrible of painting": Bellows by the River
• Italian Painting: Mannerism and Maniera
• Imperial Augsburg: A Flourishing Market for Innovative Prints
• George Bellows Symposium, Part III: Bellows' "Riverfront": The Pestilential City and the Problem of Masculinity
• Triumphs in Craftsmanship: Masterpieces of American Furniture from the Kaufman Collection, 1700-1830
• Roy Lichtenstein: Reading between the Dots
• Amber and the Ancient World
• George Bellows Symposium, Part I: "Election Night, Times Square"
• George Bellows Symposium, Part II: Bellows "Both In and Out of the Game"
• Celebrating "National Gallery of Art: Master Paintings from the Collection"
• Barnett Newman: The Stations of the Viewer
• The Serial Portrait: Photography and Identity in the Last One Hundred Years
• Introduction to the Exhibition:"Shock of the News"
• An American Vision: Henry Francis du Pont's Winterthur Museum
• Gérôme: Celebrated, Vilified, Reconsidered
• "Gilbert Stuart": An Introduction to the Exhibition
• PASSAGE 7: John Cage- incidents, texts, conversations, and music
• Signs of the Artist: Signatures and Self-Expression in American Paintings
• Joan Miró Symposium, Part V: L'Oeuvre de guerre of Miró: Constellation Series, Série Barcelona, and Ceramics, 1940-1945
• Joan Miró Symposium, Part IV: Miró's Studios: Reflecting His Roots, His References, and His Memories
• Nazi Loot in American Collections
• Joan Miró Symposium, Part III: "The Farm": Primitivism and Transfiguration
• Exotic Beasts and Politics: The Menageries of Josephine Bonaparte, Lorenzo de' Medici, and Rudolph II
• Joan Miró Symposium, Part II: Perspective, Position, and Politics: Joan Miró
• Joan Miró Symposium, Part I: Carob Link: A Promenade with Miró
• Rings: Five Passions in World Art,"A Preview of the Olympic Exhibition
• Introduction to a Painting: Edouard Manet's The Railway
• Introduction to the Exhibition: Edo: Art in Japan, 1615-1868
• Introduction to the Exhibition- "Elegance and Refinement: The Still-Life Paintings of Willem van Aelst"
• Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane
• Introduction to the Exhibition- "George Bellows": An Unfinished Life
• Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione: Genius in Context
• Samuel F. B. Morse's "Gallery of the Louvre" in Focus Symposium, Part IX: The Forest of the Old Masters: The Chiaroscuro of American Places
• Samuel F. B. Morse's "Gallery of the Louvre" in Focus Symposium, Part VIII: Painting and Technology: Samuel F. B. Morse and the Visual Transmission of Intelligence
• Samuel F. B. Morse's "Gallery of the Louvre" in Focus Symposium, Part VII: The Tradition of Paintings-within-Paintings
• Samuel F. B. Morse's "Gallery of the Louvre" in Focus Symposium, Part VI: "Gallery of the Louvre" and the Electric Telegraph
• Samuel F. B. Morse's "Gallery of the Louvre" in Focus Symposium, Part V: Samuel F. B. Morse's "Gallery of the Louvre" as a Religious Painting
• Samuel F. B. Morse's "Gallery of the Louvre" in Focus Symposium, Part IV: American Artists and the Louvre
• Samuel F. B. Morse's "Gallery of the Louvre" in Focus Symposium, Part III: Samuel Morse's Louvre in Context
• Samuel F. B. Morse's "Gallery of the Louvre" in Focus Symposium, Part II: Samuel F. B. Morse's "Lectures on the Affinity of Painting with the Other Fine Arts" and the Creation of "Gallery of the Louvre"
• Samuel F. B. Morse's "Gallery of the Louvre" in Focus Symposium, Part I: Thoughts on the Conservation Treatment of Morse's "Gallery of the Louvre
• FAPE 2012: Architecture and Art: Creating Community
• Introduction to the Exhibition- Miró: Two Views
• Introduction to the Exhibition: Sculpture of Angkor and Ancient Cambodia: Millennium of Glory
• Itō Jakuchū's Colorful Realm: Juxtaposition, Naturalism, and Ritual
• 解決當代中國藝術中「東方與西方的難題」
• Solving the East/West Conundrum in Modern Chinese Art
• Art on the Mall: The National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden
• David Finley, Andrew Mellon, and the Founding of the National Gallery
• Garden of Illusions: The National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden
• The Collecting of African American Art I: Introduction
• Side by Side: Cimabue and Giotto at Pisa
• Speech on the Dedication of the East Building of the National Gallery: James Earl Carter Jr.
• Speech on the Dedication of the National Gallery of Art: Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Vilhelm Hammershøi and His Contemporaries
• Elson Lecture 2012: Kerry James Marshall: The Importance of Being Figurative
• About Four Honest Outlaws
• Andrew W. Mellon: Collecting for the Nation
• Mellon: A Life
• Nineteenth-Century Redux: A New Look at a Great Collection of French Paintings
• Exhibiting Blackness: African Americans and the American Art Museum
• A Sense of Place- Norman Lewis in Harlem: "An Inquiry into the Laws of Nature"
• The Collecting of African American Art VIII: Elliot Perry and Darrell Walker in Conversation with Michael Harris
• The Collecting of African American Art VII: David C. Driskell in Conversation with Ruth Fine
• Remembering and Forgetting: Imagery and Its Role in the Slave Trade and Its Abolition
• The Fifty-second A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: Pictures of Nothing: Abstract Art since Pollock, Part 6: Abstract Art Now
• Works on Paper by African Americans: The Growth of the National Gallery of Art Collection
• The Fifty-second A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: Pictures of Nothing: Abstract Art since Pollock, Part 5: Satire, Irony, and Abstract Art
• The Fifty-second A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: Pictures of Nothing: Abstract Art since Pollock, Part 4: After Minimalism
• The Fifty-second A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: Pictures of Nothing: Abstract Art since Pollock, Part 3: Minimalism
• The Fifty-second A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: Pictures of Nothing: Abstract Art since Pollock, Part 2: Survivals and Fresh Starts
• The Fifty-second A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: Pictures of Nothing: Abstract Art since Pollock, Part 1: Why Abstract Art?
• An Introduction to the Exhibition- Édouard Vuillard
• A Sense of Place-Cézanne in Provence: An Introduction to the Exhibition
• The Pastrana Tapestries of King Afonso V of Portugal: The Invention of Glory
• The Image of the Black in Western Art, Part II
• Florence: Days of Destruction
• Some Pages from Michelangelo's Life
• Leonardo da Vinci: Artist of Sketchbooks and Notebooks
• Antico: The Making of an Exhibition
• Teaching Connoisseurship: Paul Sachs at Harvard University and Bernard Berenson at Villa I Tatti
• Harry Callahan at 100
• Introduction to the Exhibition-In the Tower: Mel Bochner
• The Sydney J. Freedberg Lecture on Italian Art 2011: Bernard Berenson and Lorenzo Lotto
• Morse at the Louvre
• Warhol: Headlines Symposium
• The Sydney J. Freedberg Lecture on Italian Art 2004: The Third Italian Renaissance: Art of the Lombard Plain
• A New Look: Samuel F. B. Morse's Gallery of the Louvre
• Americans Collect Italian Renaissance Art
• Introduction to the Exhibition-Warhol: Headlines
• The Sydney J. Freedberg Lecture on Italian Art 2000: The Fashioning of a Public Persona: Duchess Eleonora di Toledo's Ceremonial Dress and Her Portraits by Bronzino
• The Sydney J. Freedberg Lecture on Italian Art 2002: The Turning Figure
• The Sydney J. Freedberg Lecture on Italian Art 2001: Michelangelo and the Medici: From Florentine Prodigy to Tuscan Icon
• Art Theft and the Tate's Stolen Turners
• The Sydney J. Freedberg Lecture on Italian Art 1999: Art and Science in the Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci
• The Sydney J. Freedberg Lecture on Italian Art 1998: A Carpaccio Masterpiece Rediscovered
• The Sydney J. Freedberg Lecture on Italian Art 1997: The Young Michelangelo
• The Film-Makers' Cooperative at Fifty
• My Faraway One: The Letters of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz, 1915-1933
• In the Tower: Nam June Paik Symposium
• Michael Kahn and Shakespeare's Italy
• The Moment of Caravaggio: Part 6: Painting and Violence
• The Moment of Caravaggio: Part 5: Severed Representations
• The Moment of Caravaggio: Part 4: Absorption and Address
• The Moment of Caravaggio: Part 3: The Invention of Absorption
• The Moment of Caravaggio: Part 2: Immersion and Specularity
• The Moment of Caravaggio: Part 1: A New Type of Self-Portrait
• The Unknown Modigliani
• Decoding Baltz's Prototypes
• Celebrating Seventy Years
• FAPE 2011: The Role of Art in Diplomacy
• Gauguin's Selves: Visual Identities in the Age of Freud
• Elson Lecture 2004: Jim Dine
• Elson Lecture 2003: Sam Gilliam
• Elson Lecture 2005: Andy Goldsworthy
• Elson Lecture 2002: Christo and Jeanne-Claude
• Last Looks, Last Books: The Binocular Poetry of Death, Part 6: Self-Portraits While Dying: James Merrill, "A Scattering of Salts"
• Elson Lecture 2000: Wayne Thiebaud: "The Painted World"
• Meeting Metsu: ANOTHER Dutch Master
• Last Looks, Last Books: The Binocular Poetry of Death, Part 5: Caught and Freed: Elizabeth Bishop, "Geography III"
• Elson Lecture 1999: Ellsworth Kelly
• Calling the Earth to Witness: Paul Gauguin in the Marquesas
• Introduction to the Exhibition—Gauguin: Maker of Myth
• Last Looks, Last Books: The Binocular Poetry of Death, Part 4: Death by Subtraction: Robert Lowell, "Day by Day"
• For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism
• Elson Lecture 2011: Terry Winters: Notes on Painting
• Last Looks, Last Books: The Binocular Poetry of Death, Part 3: The Contest of Melodrama and Restraint: Sylvia Plath, "Ariel"
• Sights and Sounds of 18th-Century Venice Symposium
• Last Looks, Last Books: The Binocular Poetry of Death, Part 2: Facing the Worst: Wallace Stevens, "The Rock"
• Last Looks, Last Books: The Binocular Poetry of Death, Part 1: Introduction: Sustaining a Double View
• Neorealismo 1941-1954: Days of Glory
• The Rodin Touch
• Gabriel Metsu, 1629-1667
• The Collecting of African American Art III: A Peculiar Destiny: The Mission of the Paul R. Jones Collection
• The Collecting of African American Art II: Reflections on Collecting
• The Sydney J. Freedberg Lecture on Italian Art 2003: Ovid's "Metamorphoses" in the Art of Renaissance and Baroque Masters
• Lewis Baltz: Prototypes/Ronde de Nuit
• Elson Lecture 1998: I. M. Pei in conversation with Earl A. Powell III
• Elson Lecture 1996: Elizabeth Murray
• Elson Lecture 1995: Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen
• Elson Lecture 1994: Roy Lichtenstein and Robert Rosenblum
• Elson Lecture 1993: Frank Stella
• Introduction to the Exhibition—Venice: Canaletto and His Rivals
• The Sydney J. Freedberg Lecture on Italian Art 2005: Illuminated Choral Manuscripts of the Italian Renaissance
• Gauguin: Maker of Myth
• The Sydney J. Freedberg Lecture on Italian Art 2006: Modernity is Old: The Landscape of Italy as Seen by the Painters of the Early 19th Century
• The Sculpture of Edgar Degas at the National Gallery of Art: Launch of a Landmark Publication
• The Moran Gondola
• Fragonard's "Progress of Love" at the Frick Collection: A Site-Specific Installation?
• Rajiv Vaidya Memorial Lecture 2010: Film Design: Translating Words into Images
• Jan Lievens: Out of Rembrandt's Shadow; Jan Lievens in Black and White: Etchings, Woodcuts, and Collaborations in Print
• Dutch Paintings at the National Gallery of Art: The Untold Stories behind the Acquisitions of the Rembrandts, Vermeers, and Other Treasures in the Collection
• Edgar Degas Sculpture: The Systematic Catalogue
• Elson Lecture 2008: A Conversation with Robert Gober
• The Early Modernists in America
• The Image of the Black in Western Art, Part 1
• Puvis de Chavannes and the Invention of Modernism: Parsing the National Gallery of Art Paintings
• Robert Frank and the Photographic Book, 1930-1960
• Michelangelo: In the Beginning
• The Greatest Unknown Work of Art in America
• The Vogel Collection Story: Postcards from Artists
• Conversations with Authors: Michael Fried on Photography, Modernism, and the Importance of Not Losing Faith in the Dialectic
• The Sydney J. Freedberg Lecture on Italian Art 2010: Thoughts on the Caravaggisti
• The New Acropolis Museum: A Conversation with Dimitrios Pandermalis
• What I Saw: An Art Critic's Report on Forty Years in Washington
• The Collecting of African American Art IV: A Historical Overview
• Arcimboldo, 1526-1593: Nature and Fantasy
• Edvard Munch: Understanding His Master Prints
• Sirens, Sea Unicorns, and Aquatic Angels: Fantastic Marine Creatures from Renaissance Venice
• Are Books Making Us Illiterate? How e-Reading Can Save Civilization
• Martin Puryear: "How Things Fit Together"
• Winter (after Arcimboldo) by Philip Haas
• Martin Puryear: "Sculpture that Tries to Describe Itself to the World"
• Richard Misrach: On the Beach
• A Gallery Landmark Launched: "French Paintings of the 15th through the 18th Century," a Systematic Catalogue
• Venus as Odalisque: Ingres's Reimagining of the Female Nude
• Celebrating "Civilisation"
• The Somewhat Private Life of Allen Ginsberg
• The Diamonstein-Spielvogel Lecture Series: James Turrell
• Edvard Munch: Master Prints
• The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History
• FAPE 2010: The Role of Art in Diplomacy
• "Synecdoche": The Relationship of Big to Small in the Work of Byron Kim
• About Abstraction: A Conversation with Melvin Edwards, Sam Gilliam, and William T. Williams
• The Image of Abraham Lincoln
• The Vogel Collection Story, The Fifty Works for Fifty States Project: Two Years Later
• American Modernism: The Shein Collection
• The Sydney J. Freedberg Lecture on Italian Art 2009: Ghiberti and the Painters of Florence
• Rajiv Vaidya Memorial Lecture 2009: American Visionary Filmmakers and the Heritage of Emerson
• Elson Lecture 2010: Susan Rothenberg: A Life in Painting
• Hendrick Avercamp: The Little Ice Age: Part 2, One Community on the Ice
• Hendrick Avercamp: The Little Ice Age: Part 1, Winter Landscapes
• Sculpture Comes to Life: Splendor, Color, and Realism in Baroque Spain and Elsewhere
• The Sacred Made Real: The Making of an Exhibition
• The Sacred Made Real: Spanish Painting and Sculpture, 1600-1700: Part 2, Spanish Realism
• The Sacred Made Real: Spanish Painting and Sculpture, 1600-1700: Part 1, Polychromed Sculpture
• The History of Books and the Digital Future
• Garden Café Français (English)
• Garden Café Français (Français)
• From Impressionism to Modernism: The Chester Dale Collection: Part 2, Getting to Know Maud and Chester Dale
• From Impressionism to Modernism: The Chester Dale Collection: Part 1, An Introduction to the Exhibition
• Reading of "The Fisherwoman" by Toni Morrison from Robert Bergman's book A Kind of Rapture, in conjunction with the exhibition Robert Bergman: Portraits, 1986-1995
• Graft by Roxy Paine
• In the Darkroom: Photographic Processes before the Digital Age
• Editions with Additions: Working Proofs by Jasper Johns
• Robert Bergman: Portraits, 1986-1995: A Conversation with the Photographer
• Hendrick ter Brugghen's "Bagpipe Player"
• The Darker Side of Light: Arts of Privacy, 1850-1900
• Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings at the National Gallery of Art: Part 3, History of the Collection
• Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings at the National Gallery of Art: Part 2, The 18th Century
• Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings at the National Gallery of Art: Part 1, The 16th and 17th Centuries
• Garden Café España y las Tradiciones Culinarias Españolas
• Judith Leyster, 1609-1660: Part 4, Music in the Paintings of Judith Leyster
• Garden Café España and the Culinary Traditions of Spain
• An Antiquity of Imagination: Tullio Lombardo and Venetian High Renaissance Sculpture
• The Art of Power: Royal Armor and Portraits from Imperial Spain
• Luis Meléndez: Master of the Spanish Still Life, Part 2: Meléndez's Working Method
• Luis Meléndez: Master of the Spanish Still Life, Part 1: The Artist
• The Beffi Triptych: Preserving Abruzzo's Cultural Heritage
• Judith Leyster, 1609-1660: Part 3, Music in Leyster's Work
• Judith Leyster, 1609-1660: Part 2, Leyster's Technique
• Judith Leyster, 1609-1660: Part 1, An Introduction
• Stanley William Hayter: From Surrealism to Abstraction
• Jaromír Funke and the Amateur Avant-Garde
• FAPE 2009: The Role of Art and Architecture in Civic Buildings
• The Fifty-Eighth A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: Picasso and Truth, Part 6: Mural
• The Fifty-Eighth A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: Picasso and Truth, Part 5: Monument
• The Fifty-Eighth A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: Picasso and Truth, Part 4: Monster
• The Fifty-Eighth A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: Picasso and Truth, Part 3: Window
• The Fifty-Eighth A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: Picasso and Truth, Part 2: Room
• The Fifty-Eighth A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: Picasso and Truth, Part 1: Object
• Elson Lecture 2009: Robert Frank
• Pride of Place, Part 3: Daily Life
• Pride of Place, Part 2: The Cities
• Pride of Place, Part 1: The Cityscape
• The Collecting of African American Art VI: The Art of Collecting
• The Collecting of African American Art V: Collecting as a Way of Life
• Augustus Saint-Gaudens and the Shaw Memorial
• An American Journey
• Transforming Destiny into Awareness: Robert Frank's "The Americans"
• In the Tower: Philip Guston
• The Man Who Made Vermeers: Unvarnishing the Legend of Master Forger Han van Meegeren
• First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy and the 1963 Exhibition of the "Mona Lisa"
• Stanley Kubrick: Two Views
• Time, Space, and the Progress of History in the Medieval Map
• Conversations with Authors: Calvin Tomkins
• The Sydney J. Freedberg Lecture on Italian Art 2008: To Live with Myths in Pompeii and Beyond
• Let's Talk: A Conversation with Peter Schjeldahl
• Jan Lievens, Part 3: Return to the Netherlands (1644-1674)
• Jan Lievens, Part 2: London and Antwerp (1632-1644)
• Jan Lievens, Part 1: The Leiden Years (1620-1632)
• Pompeii and the Roman Villa, Part 5: Rediscovery and Reinvention
• Pompeii and the Roman Villa, Part 4: The Greek Legacy
• Pompeii and the Roman Villa, Part 3: Triclinium of Moregine
• Pompeii and the Roman Villa, Part 2: Courtyards and Gardens
• Pompeii and the Roman Villa, Part 1: Patrons at Home
• George de Forest Brush, Part 2: Tradition and Modernity
• George de Forest Brush, Part 1: The Advent of the Indian Paintings
• Martin Puryear, Part 2: Defining the Object
• Martin Puryear, Part 1: Evolution of an Exhibition
• Richard Misrach, Part 3: On the Beach
• Richard Misrach, Part 2: Color and Scale
• Richard Misrach, Part 1: Origins and Influences
• The Vogel Collection Story: Part 3, The Fifty Works for Fifty States Project
• The Vogel Collection Story: Part 2, Working with the National Gallery of Art
• The Vogel Collection Story: Part 1, Meeting and Collecting
• Tools of the Trade
• The Paper Tiger: Calotypes in Great Britain, Part 2
• The Paper Tiger: Calotypes in Great Britain, Part 1
• The Italian Legacy in Washington, D.C.
• The Magic of Fontainebleau
• Robert Rauschenberg, Part 4: Today's Work
• Robert Rauschenberg, Part 3: Family Matters
• Robert Rauschenberg, Part 2: The Personal and the Global
• Robert Rauschenberg, Part 1: Printmaking, Collaboration, and Language
• Going Dutch, Part 2: Exploring Paintings from the Netherlands
• Bronze and Boxwood: Sculpting the Robert H. Smith Collection
• Going Dutch, Part 1: Exploring Paintings from the Netherlands
• Why Medals Matter: The Story of the Renaissance Medal
• The Baroque Woodcut: Carving a Niche
• Opening the Covers of the Rare Book Collection
• Rauschenberg's Experiments in Printmaking
• Exploring Turner, Part 2: Invention
• Exploring Turner, Part 1: Process
• J.M.W. Turner and America
• Snapshot Collecting
• The Mystique of Edward Hopper
• Holiday Stamps: Bernardino Luini's The Madonna of the Carnation
• Amateur Photography and the Decisive Moment
• Exploring Photography at the National Gallery of Art
• A Shakespearean Connection
• Telling the Edward Hopper Story
• Hopper Meets Opera in Later the Same Evening
• Desiderio da Settignano
• Modernity and Tradition: Film in Interwar Central Europe
• Modernity in Central Europe, 1918-1945
• Tabernacle Frames from the Samuel H. Kress Collection
• Who Is That Boy in Fancy Dress
• Photography between the Wars
• The Mellon Legacy: Andrew and Paul Mellon
• The Making of a DVD Paul Mellon: In His Own Words
• Designing the Lincoln Memorial: Daniel Chester French and Henry Bacon
• A Masterpiece from the Capitoline Museum, Rome
• The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States
• Colorforms: Ellsworth Kelly and the Colored Paper Images
• Artists in Residence: Henry O. Tanner in the Holy Land
• Oil and Water: De Kooning in His Studio
• Social Art, Social Cooperation: A Conversation with Tania Bruguera, Tom Finkelpearl, and Mierle Laderman Ukeles
• William H. Johnson
• Michelangelo's David-Apollo: An Offer He Couldn't Refuse
• Historical Perspectives: African American Art
• Of Times and Spaces: On Looking at Thomas Struth and Candida Höfer
• Roy Lichtenstein's Kyoto Prize Lecture of 1995
• A Conversation with Calvin Tomkins: "Duchamp: A Biography"
• Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde
• Truth, Lies, and Photographs
• Pre-Raphaelitism and International Modernisms Symposium, Part I: Welcome and Introduction: Pre-Raphaelitism and International Modernisms
• Pre-Raphaelitism and International Modernisms Symposium, Part II: Pre-Raphaelite Landscape Painting and the Barbizon School, or, The English Beef with the French
• Pre-Raphaelitism and International Modernisms Symposium, Part III: Ripe for Revolution? Reconsidering “The New Path” and the American Pre-Raphaelites
• Pre-Raphaelitism and International Modernisms Symposium, Part IV: Avant-Garde Matters
• Pre-Raphaelitism and International Modernisms Symposium, Part V: Day One Q & A
• Pre-Raphaelitism and International Modernisms Symposium, Part VI: Introduction: Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde and Can Sculpture Be Pre-Raphaelite?
• Pre-Raphaelitism and International Modernisms Symposium, Part VII: Tirra Lirra in a Mirror: Rhyming Visual and Verbal Form
• Pre-Raphaelitism and International Modernisms Symposium, Part VIII: The Craftsman's Dream: The Pre-Raphaelites and the Arts and Crafts Movement
• Pre-Raphaelitism and International Modernisms Symposium, Part IX: Seduction or Salvation: Aesthetic Immersion in the Work of Edward Burne-Jones
• Elson Lecture 2013: A Conversation with Glenn Ligon
• Introduction to the Exhibition:"Albrecht Dürer: Master Drawings, Watercolors, and Prints from the Albertina"
• Engaging with American Furniture: Looking Back, Moving Forward Symposium, Part I: Dust, Grain, and Soften: The Fine Art of Decorative Painting
• Engaging with American Furniture: Looking Back, Moving Forward Symposium, Part II: From Appreciation to Interpretation: Academic Engagement with American Furniture
• Engaging with American Furniture: Looking Back, Moving Forward Symposium, Part III: Research for the Future: Revisiting “…things you have long taken for granted”
• Engaging with American Furniture: Looking Back, Moving Forward Symposium, Part IV: Lafayette River to the Potomac: The Kaufman Collection at the National Gallery of Art
• FAPE 2013: Inside Photography: The Role of Art in Diplomacy
• Saving Italy: The Monuments Men, Nazis, and War
• Bernini's Beloved
• Useful and Beautiful: William Morris and His Books
• Elson Lecture 2007: Sean Scully, Persistence and Style
• Diaghilev Symposium: Diaghilev, a Russian Nationalist in the West, Part 1
• Diaghilev Symposium: Diaghilev and the Courts: Culture Clashes and Lawsuits during the First American Tour of the Ballets Russes, Part 2
• Diaghilev Symposium: Myth in Motion—Decoration, Dance, and Sources of Russian Modernism, Part 3
• Diaghilev Symposium: The Ballets Russes and Russia, Part 4
• Diaghilev Symposium: Poulenc’s House Party, Part 5
• Diaghilev Symposium: Panel Discussion, Part 6
• When Art Danced with Music (and What it Wore)
• Brice Marden: Beyond Visual Reality
• The Accidental Masterpiece: Leonardo and “The Last Supper”
• The Lure of the Letter: Renaissance Venice and Antique Lettering
• Ciné-Concert: A Suitcase Full of Chocolate—Sofia Cosma
• The Voice of the Artist: De Wain Valentine
• Bronislava Nijinska: A Choreographer's Journey
• Jeff Wall on His Work
• Philip Kaufman: American Stylist
• Elson Lecture 2006: A Talk with Vija Celmins
• The Rite of Spring: Race, Dance, and Modernism in 1913
• Yes, No, Maybe: The Art of Making Decisions
• Tell It with Pride: The 54th Massachusetts Regiment and Augustus Saint-Gaudens’ Shaw Memorial
• War Memoranda: A Conversation with Binh Danh and Robert Schultz
• Charles Marville, Photographer of Paris in the Age of Haussmann
• The Sixty-Second A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: Out of Site in Plain View: A History of Exhibiting Architecture since 1750: Framed and Hung: Architecture in Public from the Salon to the French Revolution, Part 1
• The Sixty-Second A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: Out of Site in Plain View: A History of Exhibiting Architecture since 1750: In and Out of Time: Curating Architecture's History, Part 2
• The Sixty-Second A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: Out of Site in Plain View: A History of Exhibiting Architecture since 1750: Not at Home: Architecture on Display from World's Fairs to Williamsburg, Part 3
• The Sixty-Second A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: Out of Site in Plain View: A History of Exhibiting Architecture since 1750: Better Futures: Exhibitions between Reform and Avant-Garde, Part 4
• The Sixty-Second A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: Out of Site in Plain View: A History of Exhibiting Architecture since 1750: Conflicting Visions: Commerce, Diplomacy, and Persuasion, Part 5
• The Sixty-Second A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: Out of Site in Plain View: A History of Exhibiting Architecture since 1750: Architecture and the Rise of the Event Economy, Part 6
• Edward Zwick in Conversation
• The Sydney J. Freedberg Lecture on Italian Art 2013: Circa 1515: Leonardo, Raphael, and Michelangelo
• Making It: Race and Class in Contemporary America
• DJ Spooky: A Civil War Symphony
• The Real Treasure of Citizen Kane: William Randolph Hearst and the Story of His Extraordinary Collections
• Andy Goldsworthy
• Russians in Napoléon vu par Abel Gance: The Émigré Contribution
• The Education of a Curator: Keeping It All in Balance
• An Insider’s Perspective
• Rajiv Vaidya Memorial Lecture 2013: Viewing History Through the Filmmaker’s Lens
• The Marquesa de Pontejos-Russian (Русский)
• Visualizing Community: City and Village in Byzantine Greece: Visualizing Community: City and Village in Byzantine Greece: Visualizing Community in Byzantium Greece, Part 1
• Visualizing Community: City and Village in Byzantine Greece: New Discoveries from Byzantium Greece, Part 2
• Visualizing Community: City and Village in Byzantine Greece: Earthenwares from "Heavenly" Byzantium, Part 3
• Visualizing Community: City and Village in Byzantine Greece: Art and Craftsmanship in Medieval Byzantium, Part 4
• Conservation of the Shaw Memorial: The Long Journey
• Speaking across Disciplines: Introducing “Facture,” a New Gallery Journal
• Climbing and Clarifying: The Genius of Jacob Lawrence
• Witnessing Byzantium: The Greek Perspective
• The Lighthouse at Honfleur, Seurat
• Place du Carrousel, Pissarro
• House of Père Lacroix, Cézanne
• Still Life with Apples and Peaches, Cézanne
• The Collecting of African American Art X: Rodney Merritt Miller: Reflections on Collecting
• A Bearden Celebration
• Banquet Piece with Mince Pie, Heda
• Cathedral of Saint John at 's-Hertogenbosch, Saenredam- English
• A Forest Scene, Ruisdael
• The Dancing Couple, Steen
• Lucretia, Rembrandt
• Self-Portrait, Rembrandt
• The Mill, Rembrandt
• Self-Portrait, Leyster
• Portrait of Willem Coymans, Hals
• Vase of Flowers, De Heem
• The Maas at Dordrecht, Cuyp
• Andries Stilte as a Standard Bearer, Verspronck
• Daniel in the Lions' Den, Rubens
• The Fall of Man, Goltzius
• The Fall of Phaeton, Rubens
• Queen Henrietta Marie with Sir Jeffrey Hudson, Van Dyck
• Marchesa Elena Grimaldi, Wife of Marchese Nicola Cattaneo, Van Dyck
• Renaissance Overview
• Nativity with the Prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel, Duccio
• Madonna and Child with Saint Peter and Saint John the Evangelist, Nardo di Cione
• David and Goliath, Castagno
• The Adoration of the Magi, Angelico and Lippi
• Portrait of Giuliano de' Medici, Boticelli
• The Adoration of the Shepherds, Giorgione
• The Alba Madonna, Raphael
• Ginevra de' Benci, Leonardo
• The Feast of the Gods, Bellini and Titian
• The Miraculous Draft of Fishes, Bassano
• The Image of the Black in Western Art, Part III
• Venus with a Mirror, Titian
• The Luini Frescoes
• Laocoon, El Greco
• The Lute Player, Gentileschi
• Interior of the Pantheon, Rome, Panini
• The Square of Saint Mark's, Venice, Canaletto
• Apollo Pursuing Daphne, Tiepolo
• Two Women at a Window, Murillo
• Soldiers Playing Cards, Boulogne
• The Repentant Magdalen, La Tour
• Looking Forward, Looking Back
• Cherubs Playing with a Swan, Tubi
• Cherubs Playing with a Lyre, Legros
• The Marriage at Cana, Master of the Catholic Kings
• Portrait of a Lady, van der Weyden
• Mary, Queen of Heaven, Master of the St. Lucy Legend
• The Annunciation, Van Eyck
• Madonna and Child, Dürer
• The Small Crucifixion, Grünewald
• The Ill-Matched Lovers, Massys
• Portrait of a Merchant, Gossaert
• Death and the Miser, Bosch
• Rest on the Flight into Egypt, David
• Still Life with Figs and Bread, Melendez
• The Marquesa de Pontejos, Goya
• Boy Blowing Soap Bubbles, Chardin
• The Italian Comedians, Watteau
• Napoleon in His Study, David
• The Bath of Venus, Boucher
• The Shipwreck, Vernet
• The Marquise de Pezé and the Marquise de Rougé with Her Two Children, Vigée-LeBrun
• Madame Moitessier, Ingres
• Wivenhoe Park, Essex, Constable
• Keelmen Heaving in Coals by Moonlight, Turner
• The White Horse, Constable
• Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Gainsborough
• Oedipus Cursing His Son, Polynices, Fuseli
• The Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise, West
• The Voyage of Life, Cole
• Catherine Brass Yates (Mrs. Richard Yates), Stuart
• Watson and the Shark, Copley
• Epes Sargent, Copley
• The Washington Family, Savage
• Lake Lucerne, Bierstadt
• Shaw Memorial, Saint-Gaudens
• Repose (Nonchaloir), Sargent
• El Rio de Luz (River of Light), Church
• Right and Left, Homer
• Baby at Play, Eakins
• Giant Magnolias on a Blue Velvet Couch, Heade
• Breezing Up, Homer
• Symphony in White, No. 1, The White Girl, Whistler
• The Old Violin, Harnett
• Allies Day, May 1917, Hassam
• A Friendly Call, Chase
• Both Members of the Club, Bellows
• Boulevard des Italiens, Sunlight, Pissarro
• Boy in a Red Waistcoat, Cezanne
• Breton Girls Dancing, Gauguin
• Chaim Soutine, Modigliani
• Diana, Renoir
• Family of Saltimbanques, Picasso
• Forest of Fointainebleau, Corot
• Girl Arranging Her Hair, Cassatt
• Harlequin, Cezanne
• Houses in Provence, Cezanne
• Northern Landscape, Friedrich
• Odalisque, Renoir
• Panorama, Rousseau
• Artist's Father, Cezanne
• Calm Sea and Black Rocks at Trouville, Courbet
• The Boating Party, Cassatt
• The Peppermint Bottle, Cezanne
• Prodigal Son and Rest, Puvis
• Capital Culture: J. Carter Brown, the National Gallery of Art, and the Reinvention of the Museum Experience
• The Inside Story: Monuments Men and the National Gallery of Art
• Introduction to the Exhibition: Garry Winogrand
• The Collecting of African American Art XI: The Wedge Collection: Kenneth Montague in Conversation with Trevor Schoonmaker
• Introduction-Kid's
• Adoration of the Magi, Lippi-Kid's
• Ginevra de'Benci, Leonardo-Kid's
• Saint George and the Dragon, Raphael-Kid's
• The Lute Player, Gentileschi-Kid's
• Interior of the Pantheon, Rome, Panini-Kid's
• The Square of Saint Mark's, Venice, Canaletto-Kid's
• Soldiers Playing Cards and Dice (The Cheats), Boulogne-Kid's
• Mary, Queen of Heaven, Master of the Saint Lucy Legend-Kid's
• Death and the Miser, Bosch-Kid's
• Portrait of a Merchant, Gossaert-Kid's
• The Sixty-Third A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: Past Belief: Visions of Early Christianity in Renaissance and Reformation Europe, Part 1: How Jesus Celebrated Passover: The Jewish Origins of Christianity
• Self-Portrait, Rembrandt-Kid's
• The Mill, Rembrandt-Kid's
• The Maas at Dordrecht, Cuyp-Kid's
• Forest Scene, Ruisdael-Kid's
• Self-Portrait, Leyster-Kid's
• Andries Stilte as a Standard Bearer, Verspronck-Kid's
• The Dancing Couple, Steen-Kid's
• Banquet Piece with Mince Pie, Heda-Kid's
• Vase of Flowers, De Heem-Kid's
• Daniel in the Lions' Den, Rubens-Kid's
• Queen Henrietta Maria with Sir Jeffrey Hudson, van Dyck-Kid's
• Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries, David-Kid's
• The Marquesa de Pontejos, Goya-Kid's
• Italian Comedians, Watteau-Kid's
• Soap Bubbles, Chardin-Kid's
• The Shipwreck, Vernet-Kid's
• The Marquise de Peze and the Marquise de Rouget with her Two Children, Vigee-Le Brun-Kid’s
• Wivenhoe Park, Essex, Constable-Kid's
• Keelmen Heaving in Coals by Moonlight, Turner-Kid’s
• The Washington Family, Savage-Kid’s
• Watson and the Shark, Copley-Kid's
• The Voyage of Life, Cole-Kid's
• Lake Lucerne, Bierstadt-Kid's
• Shaw Memorial, Saint-Gaudens-Kid's
• El Rio de Luz (The River of Light), Church-Kid’s
• Breezing Up (A Fair Wind), Homer-Kid's
• The Old Violin, Harnett-Kid’s
• Allies Day, May 1917, Hassam-Kid’s
• The Old Musician, Manet-Kid’s
• The Railway, Manet-Kid's
• The Japanese Footbridge, Monet-Kid's
• The Artist’s Garden at Vetheuil, Monet-Kid’s
• Pont Neuf, Paris, Renoir-Kid’s
• The Lighthouse at Honfleur, Seurat-Kid’s
• The Boating Party, Cassatt-Kid's
• Four Dancers, Degas-Kid's
• Marcelle Lender Dancing the Bolero in “Chilpéric”, Toulouse-Lautrec-Kid’s
• Self-Portrait, Van Gogh-Kid’s
• Farmhouse in Provence, Van Gogh-Kid's
• Still Life with Apples and Peaches, Cézanne-Kid’s
• Elson Lecture 2014: Allan McCollum
• A Girl with a Watering Can, Renoir
• Le Château Noir, Cézanne
• House of Père Lacroix, Cézanne
• Self-Portrait, Gauguin
• Agostina, Corot
• Fallen Jockey, Degas
• Eve Sculpture and Words of the Devil, Gauguin
• Sanctuary of Hercules, Böcklin
• The Sixty-Third A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: Past Belief: Visions of Early Christianity in Renaissance and Reformation Europe, Part 2: Bearers of Memory and Makers of History: The Many Paths to Christian Antiquity
• “Fair Greece, Sad Relic”: How Did Byzantium Reform Classical Greek Art?
• Ways of Seeing Byzantium: An Introduction, Part 1
• The Sixty-Third A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: Past Belief: Visions of Early Christianity in Renaissance and Reformation Europe, Part 3: Christian Origins and the Work of Time: Imagining the First Christians
• Ways of Seeing Byzantium: The Byzantine Icon in the Expanded Field, Part 2
• Ways of Seeing Byzantium: Heaven in Earth: Exhibiting the Metaphysics of Matter, Part 3
• El Greco: 400 Years After: Introduction: The Critical Fortune of El Greco: Causes and Effects, Part 1
• The Sixty-Third A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: Past Belief: Visions of Early Christianity in Renaissance and Reformation Europe, Part 4: Relics and Ruins: Material Survivals and Early Modern Interpretations
• El Greco: 400 Years After: El Greco in Italy: Formation of an Ambitious Portraitist, Part 2
• Ways of Seeing Byzantium: Beautiful Bodies: Personal Adornment and Byzantine Aesthetics, Then and Now, Part 4
• The Sixty-Third A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: Past Belief: Visions of Early Christianity in Renaissance and Reformation Europe, Part 5: Martyrdom and Persecution: The Uses of Early Christian Suffering
• Introduction to the Exhibition: Andrew Wyeth: Looking Out, Looking In
• FAPE 2014: The Role of Art in Diplomacy: The Artist in a Global Community
• The Sixty-Third A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: Past Belief: Visions of Early Christianity in Renaissance and Reformation Europe, Part 6: Constantine and Conversion: The Roles of the First Christian Emperor
• El Greco: 400 Years After: A Greek Painter in Toledo, 400 Years After, Part 3
• Introduction to the Exhibition: Degas/Cassatt
• El Greco: 400 Years After: Sainthood and Creativity: El Greco’s Portraits of Saint Ildefonso and Giulio Clovio, Part 4
• Paintings in a New Age: The Debut of NGA Online Editions
• Producing Digital Knowledge about Analog Art: The Case of Frederick Sommer
• Mary Cassatt's Radical Monstrosities
• El Greco: 400 Years After: The Apostolate of the Museo del Greco in Toledo: One of El Greco’s Greatest Series, Part 5
• Patrons, Artists, and Saints: El Greco in the Chapel of San José in Toledo
• Andrew Wyeth: A Spoken Self-Portrait
• Out of the Kokoon: Modernism in Cleveland before the Armory Show
• Van Gogh: The Face in the Mirror

• The Girl with a Pearl Earring: The Making of an Icon

• Andrew Wyeth at the Movies: The Story of an Obsession
• Speaking Pictures: Poetry Addressing Works of Art
• The Art of Frank Lloyd Wright
• The Artist’s Reality: Philosophies of Art
• The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa
• A Sense of Place-Winslow Homer and the Maine Coast
• The Domenichino Affair: Novelty, Imitation, and Theft in Seventeenth-Century Rome
• Harry Callahan: Photographer, Teacher, Mentor
• Ursula von Rydingsvard
• A Celebration of James Baldwin with Carolyn Forché and E. Ethelbert Miller
• Introduction to the Exhibition: Captain Linnaeus Tripe: Photographer of India and Burma, 1852-1860
• Sandra Ramos
• Rendez-vous with Art: A Conversation
• Saving the Baldwin Film
• Artists, Amateurs, Alternative Spaces: Experimental Cinema in Eastern Europe, 1960–1990
• Andrew Wyeth: Rebel
• Visibility Machines: A Conversation with Harun Farocki and Trevor Paglen
• The Sydney J. Freedberg Lecture on Italian Art 2014: Venice 1548: Titian Looking at Tintoretto’s Miracle of the Slave
• El Greco in America: Critics, Collectors, and Connoisseurs
• Degas and Cassatt: Different Perspectives, Part 1: Degas, Cassatt, and the Americans
• Degas and Cassatt: Different Perspectives, Part 2: Degas and Cassatt: Sex and the Single Artist
• Image of the Black in Western Art, Part IV
• Degas and Cassatt: Different Perspectives, Part 3: Degas: Women, Horses, and Nature
• Los Carpinteros
• Degas and Cassatt: Different Perspectives, Part 4: Boxes of Colors: Cassatt and Degas as Pastellists
• Patrimony in Peril: Germany’s Survey of Mural Paintings Threatened During WWII
• Captain Linnaeus Tripe: Photographer of India and Burma, 1852–1860, Part 1: “A Glorious Galaxy of Monuments”: Photography and the Archaeological Survey of India after Tripe
• Captain Linnaeus Tripe: Photographer of India and Burma, 1852–1860, Part 2: Interpreting Early Photography in India: Medium and Method
• Captain Linnaeus Tripe: Photographer of India and Burma, 1852–1860, Part 3: Measuring Time: Linnaeus Tripe’s Inscription of the Thanjavur Temple, 1858
• Van Gogh at the National Gallery of Art
• The Radicalism of the "Little Dancer Aged Fourteen"
• The Ages of El Greco: From Crete to Toledo
• Introduction to the Exhibition: Piero di Cosimo: The Poetry of Painting in Renaissance Florence
• Inside Look: Little Dancer Aged Fourteen
• Renaissance Invention and the Haunted Infancy
• Why Prints?
• Another Light: Thomas Demand’s “Pacific Sun”
• The Sixty-Fourth A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: Restoration as Event and Idea: Art in Europe, 1814‒1820, Part 1: Moscow Burns / The Pope Comes Home, 1812‒1814: David, Gros, and Ingres Test Empire’s Facade
• Other Planes of There
• Resisting Love, Embracing War in Representations of Torquato Tasso’s Gerusalemme Liberata
• The Sixty-Fourth A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: Restoration as Event and Idea: Art in Europe, 1814‒1820, Part 2: At the Service of Kings, Madrid and Paris, 1814: Aging Goya and Upstart Géricault Face Their Restorations
• What’s New with Piero di Cosimo?
• Auguste Rodin’s Lifetime Bronze Sculpture in the Simpson Collection and the Role of Several Trusted Practitioners
• The Sixty-Fourth A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: Restoration as Event and Idea: Art in Europe, 1814‒1820, Part 3: Cut Loose, 1815–1817: Napoleon Returns, David Crosses Borders, and Géricault Wanders Outcast Rome
• Kadir López
• Piero di Cosimo: A Renaissance Painter Comes to America
• Intermedia Collaboration
• Elson Lecture 2015: Jessica Stockholder
• The Sixty-Fourth A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: Restoration as Event and Idea: Art in Europe, 1814‒1820, Part 4: The Religion of Ancient Art from London to Paris to Rome, 1815–1819: Canova and Lawrence Replenish Papal Splendor
• In My Mind
• Personal Vision and the Education of Young Composers in America
• The Sixty-Fourth A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: Restoration as Event and Idea: Art in Europe, 1814‒1820, Part 5: The Laboratory of Brussels, 1816–1819: The Apprentice Navez and the Master David Redraw the Language of Art Thomas Crow, Rosalie Solow Professor of Modern Art, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
• The Sixty-Fourth A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: Restoration as Event and Idea: Art in Europe, 1814‒1820, Part 6: Redemption in Rome and Paris, 1818–1820: Ingres Revives the Chivalric while Géricault Recovers the Dispossessed
• Rodolfo Peraza
• Two Approaches to Making a New Music out of the Traditions of Jazz
• FAPE 2015: The Role of Art in Diplomacy: Cultural Citizens
• Building a Collection: Photography at the National Gallery of Art
• Joachim Wtewael: Pronunciation
• Introduction to the Exhibition—Drawing in Silver and Gold: Leonardo to Jasper Johns
• Conversations with Artists: Vera Lutter
• Making Redlands: A Novel in Words and Pictures
• Conversations with Artists: Mark Ruwedel
• New Discoveries about "A Pastoral Visit" by Richard Norris Brooke (National Gallery of Art, Corcoran Collection)
• Reading from “Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs” by Sally Mann
• A Closer Look at Metalpoint Drawing
• Introduction to the Exhibition—Gustave Caillebotte: The Painter’s Eye
• New Discoveries about "Young Girl Reading" by Jean-Honoré Fragonard
• Electric Schlock: Duchenne de Boulogne’s Photographic Theater
• Entrevista sobre Venecia 1548: Tiziano contemplando “El milagro del esclavo” de Tintoreto
• Cézanne and Antiquity
• Art Is For the Spirit: Recent Prints and Sculpture at Gemini G.E.L.
• Archive of Lamentations
• Jennifer Reeves | nga
• Gods and Goddesses Behaving Badly: The Art of Joachim Wtewael
• Caillebotte/Durand-Ruel: Making Impressionism
• Don Perry | nga
• Talking Shop with Sidney Felsen: Fifty Years of Artists at Gemini G.E.L
• Behind the Scenes of The Serial Impulse: Conserving Works of Art on Paper
• Introduction to the Exhibition — The Serial Impulse at Gemini G.E.L.
• American Experiments in Narrative, 2000–2015: Don Perry
• “A Hankering for Public Fame”: Authorship, Celebrity, and the Portrait Bust in 18th-Century Britain
• Abstraction and Its Capacities
• Artists and Mentorship: David C. Driskell in Conversation with Ellington Robinson
• Rajiv Vaidya Memorial Lecture 2011: Time Frames: Andy Warhol's Film and Video
• The Sydney J. Freedberg Lecture on Italian Art 2015: Canova and Color
• Rajiv Vaidya Memorial Lecture 2012: Germany in the 1920s: Expanding the Film Avant-Garde beyond the Political Divide
• Rajiv Vaidya Memorial Lecture 2014: New York's Cinema 16 Film Society: Programming for a Divided World
• Thomas Hart Benton: Painting the Song
• Introduction to the Exhibition — Power and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World
• The Artist as Weatherman: Hans Haacke's Critical Meteorology
• Bronzes from the Aegean: The Lost Cargos and the Circumstances of Their Recovery
• Unabridged and Incomplete: Series and Sequences in Contemporary Art
• What Makes a Statue?
• Procession: The Art of Norman Lewis
• From Olympus to the Streets of Constantinople: The Byzantine Retirement of the Ancient Gods
• Alexandre Arrechea: Space Defeated
• New Discoveries from the Robert H. Smith Collection
• Women in Hellenistic and Roman Athens: Visualizing Female Power and Wealth
• Zeus, Isis, and Dionysos in Dion at the Foot of Mount Olympus
• The Sixty-Fifth A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: The Thief Who Stole My Heart: The Material Life of Chola Bronzes from South India, c. 855–1280, Part 1: Gods on Parade: Sacred Forms of Copper
• Elson Lecture 2016: Cecily Brown
• The Sixty-Fifth A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: The Thief Who Stole My Heart: The Material Life of Chola Bronzes from South India, c. 855–1280, Part 1: Gods on Parade: Sacred Forms of Copper
• The Sixty-Fifth A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: The Thief Who Stole My Heart: The Material Life of Chola Bronzes from South India, c. 855–1280, Part 3: Portrait of a Queen: Patronage of Dancing Shiva, c. 941‒1002
• FAPE 2016: Frank Gehry and Paul Goldberger in Conversation
• The Sixty-Fifth A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: The Thief Who Stole My Heart: The Material Life of Chola Bronzes from South India, c. 855–1280, Part 4: An Eleventh-Century Master Sculptor: Ten Thousand Pearls Adorn a Bronze
• The Sixty-Fifth A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: The Thief Who Stole My Heart: The Material Life of Chola Bronzes from South India, c. 855–1280, Part 5: Chola Obsession with Sri Lanka and the Silk Route of the Sea in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries
• The Sixty-Fifth A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: The Thief Who Stole My Heart: The Material Life of Chola Bronzes from South India, c. 855–1280, Part 6: Worship in Uncertain Times: The Secret Burial of Bronzes in 1310
• The National Gallery of Art at 75: Andrew W. Mellon, David Finley, Paul Mellon
• "Molotov Man" in Context
• German Spaces, Haacke’s Places: Hans Haacke’s Germania at the 1993 Venice Biennale
• Elsa Mora: Timeline
• Black Diaspora Art in Our Global Contemporary Moment: Some Reflections
• Bronze, Bells, Bust: The National Gallery of Art’s Charles V
• Unflattening: Revolutionizing Thought in Comics
• Conversations with Artists: Helen Frankenthaler
• Introducing Hubert Robert
• Peter Hutton: Landscape and Time
• Travels in Regency England: Prince Pückler’s Letters of a Dead Man
• A Closer Look at Artists’ Practices and Techniques
• Arnold Newman Lecture Series on Photography: Lorna Simpson
• The Light of the World
• Carlos Garaicoa
• The Collecting of African American Art XII: Pamela J. Joyner in Conversation with Leonardo Drew and Jennie C. Jones
• Conversation with Collectors: Virginia Dwan and James Meyer
• The Reception of Paolo Veronese in Britain (c. 1600–1900)
• Discoveries from the Dwan Gallery and Virginia Dwan Archives
• Introduction to the Exhibition In the Tower: Barbara Kruger
• A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copley
• Stuart Davis: In Full Swing—An Introduction to the Exhibition
• Drawings for Paintings in the Age of Rembrandt: The Creative Process
• Rajiv Vaidya Memorial Lecture 2016: The Innovations of the Moving Image
• Flow: Theory and Practice
• The Sydney J. Freedberg Lecture on Italian Art: The Aesthetics of Water: Wellheads, Cisterns, and Fountains in the Venetian Dominion
• The Art of Rivalry
• Tradition and Invention in the Art of Renaissance Venice
• “Slipping into the World as Abstractions”: Georgia O’Keeffe’s Abstract Portraits
• Jason + Joan: Reanimation: Jason Moran and Joan Jonas in Conversation with Lynne Cooke
• Douglas Crimp and Lynne Cooke on "Before Pictures"
• Paper/Plates: Renaissance Prints and Ceramics at the National Gallery of Art
• Sculpting with Color in Renaissance Florence: An Introduction to the Della Robbia Exhibition
• Jean Desmet’s Dream Factory, 1906 – 1916: Up in the Air!
• Conversations with Artists: Theaster Gates
• Calder Tower
• Jean Desmet’s Dream Factory, 1906 – 1916: Ladies First
• Jean Desmet’s Dream Factory, 1906 – 1916: The Colorful World of Cinema
• Jean Desmet’s Dream Factory, 1906 – 1916: When the Earth Trembled
• East of the Mississippi: Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Photography
• The Landmarks of New York
• Drawing the Line: The Early Work of Agnes Martin
• Artwork as Network: Printed Multiples and the Cybernetic Turn
• Introduction to the Exhibition: Frédéric Bazille and the Birth of Impressionism
• Answering the Search for the Next Ansel Adams
• A Centennial Celebration I. M. Pei at the National Gallery of Art
• Flights of Angels: The Heavenly Orders in the Renaissance
• “A first-rate collection”: Rodin at the National Gallery of Art
• Introduction to the Exhibition—America Collects Eighteenth-Century French Painting
• John Moran and Art Photography in America: 1855–1875
• When No One Liked Jacques Louis David
• Restoration/REVELATION: The Exterior Wings of the Ghent Altarpiece
• Wyeth Foundation for American Art Symposium 2017: Artists Panel: The African American Art World in Twentieth-Century Washington, DC
• Edvard Munch: Spiritualism, Science, and Color
• Steps toward Reality: Matthias Mansen in Conversation with John Tyson
• "Fray: Art and Textile Politics": A Conversation with Julia Bryan-Wilson and Lynne Cooke
• Introduction to the Exhibition—Fragonard: The Fantasy Figures
• Introduction to the Exhibition—Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting: Inspiration and Rivalry
• Edgar Degas (1834–1917): A Centenary Tribute, Part 1—Edgar Degas: Man of Science
• Edgar Degas (1834–1917): A Centenary Tribute, Part 2—Exploring Degas’s Process in "Ballet Scene," a Late Pastel on Tracing Paper
• The Vermeer Phenomenon, Part I
• The Vermeer Phenomenon, Part II
• Edgar Degas (1834–1917): A Centenary Tribute, Part 3—An Interview with Degas
• Edgar Degas (1834–1917): A Centenary Tribute, Part 4—Drawing on Plate and Stone: Degas and Printmaking
• Leonardo da Vinci
• Amy Sherald
• Michelangelo Pistoletto
• Edgar Degas (1834–1917): A Centenary Tribute, Part 5—Pastels in the Burrell Collection, Glasgow
• Edgar Degas (1834–1917): A Centenary Tribute, Part 6—Issues of Finish and Process in the Paintings of Degas
• Bunny Mellon: The Pursuit of Perfection
• Collector of Lives: Giorgio Vasari and the Invention of Art
• Calder: The Conquest of Time: A Conversation with Jed Perl and Alexander S. C. Rower
• The Sydney J. Freedberg Lecture on Italian Art 2017: Sugar and Spice and All Things Nice? Titian’s Portrait of Clarice Strozzi
• Charles Le Brun—Louis XIV’s Most Powerful Artist
• Edgar Degas (1834–1917): A Centenary Tribute, Part 7—Authorship and Evidence: Degas's Sculpture and Art History Today
• Edgar Degas (1834–1917): A Centenary Tribute, Part 8—Degas’s Sculpture: An Inside Look
• Projections of Memory: Romanticism, Modernism, and the Aesthetics of Film
• Anne Truitt in Washington: A Conversation with James Meyer and Alexandra Truitt
• Fashion à la Figaro: Spanish Style on the French Stage
• Frederick Douglass and the Visual Arts in Washington, DC
• A Century Gone By: American Art and the First World War
• The Art of Working with Visitors with Memory Loss: A New Gallery Program
• Picnic Ware Fit for a Feast
• Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting: New Insights and Discoveries
• Saul Steinberg: Outsider Extraordinaire
• Time and Temporality in Seventeenth-Century Genre Painting
• More than Mimicry: The Parrot in Dutch Genre Painting
• Introduction to the Exhibition-Outliers and American Vanguard Art
• Innovation, Competition, and Fine Painting Technique: Marketing High-Life Style in the Dutch 17th Century
• Dutch burghers and their wine: Nary a sour grape
• Striking the Right Chord: Seeing Music in Dutch Genre Painting
• Pictures in Paintings
• Virtuous Rivalry in the Age of Vermeer
• Photorealist Painting: A Modern History of Surfaces
• New Technical Research on the Tomb of Mary of Burgundy
• Suffering, Struggle, Survival: The Activism, Artistry, and Authorship of Frederick Douglass
• Introduction to the Exhibition-Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings
• Introduction to the Exhibition-Michel Sittow: Estonian Painter at the Courts of Renaissance Europe
• Seventy-Fifth Birthday Tribute to Curtis Mayfield
• Carrie Mae Weems: Kitchen Table Series
• Introduction to the Exhibition—Cézanne Portraits
• The Sisterhood of the Traveling Palette: Rebecca Strand and Georgia O’Keeffe in New Mexico
• Parrots and People in Dutch Genre Paintings: A Discussion with Dr. Irene Pepperberg on the Role of the African Grey Parrot in the 17th Century
• The Art of the Harpsichord: Music and Painting
• Mathematics and the Art of M. C. Escher
• Draping Michelangelo: Francesco Mochi, Gianlorenzo Bernini, and the Birth of Baroque Sculpture
• Claude Monet’s “The Artist’s Garden at Vétheuil”—Two Masterworks Reunited, Part II: Conservator’s Take
• Claude Monet’s “The Artist's Garden at Vétheuil”—Two Masterworks Reunited, Part I: Curators’ Take
• Claude Monet’s “The Artist’s Garden at Vétheuil”—Two Masterworks Reunited, Part III: Masterpieces in Context
• Differing, Drawn: A Conversation with Lynne Cooke and Darby English
• Crossing Paths
• The East Building at Forty: Reflections from Curators Past and Present
• FAPE 2018: Why Is Art Necessary?
• Cézanne's Portraits: Doubt, Certainty, and Painting in Series
• The Evidence of Things Seen and Unseen
• Abstraction in Reverse: A Conversation with Alexander Alberro and James Meyer
• Introduction to the Exhibition—Sharing Images: Renaissance Prints into Maiolica and Bronze
• The Description of the Sacred Mountain of La Verna: Jacopo Ligozzi’s Innovative Guide to a Franciscan Sanctuary in Context
• Film in the Sculptural Field
• Collecting for the Nation: The 75th Anniversary of the Lessing J. Rosenwald Gift of Prints and Drawings to the National Gallery of Art
• Water, Wind, and Waves: Marine Paintings from the Dutch Golden Age
• Maruja Mallo’s “Sewers and Belfries” (c. 1929-1932)
• Anne Charlotte Robertson: Selections from “Five Year Diary”
• German Expressionism and Degenerate Art
• Avant-Garde to Underground: Outliers and Film, Part 2
• Monet at Vétheuil
• Ingmar Bergman and the Visual Arts
• Cézanne Portraits in Context
• Introduction to the Exhibition—Corot: Women
• Introduction to the Exhibition—Rachel Whiteread
• Stanley Kubrick: The Irony of Feeling
• Reflecting on Collecting: Recent Acquisitions of Modern Art
• Caitlin Teal Price
• Introduction to the Exhibition: The Chiaroscuro Woodcut in Renaissance Italy
• The Longest Running Show: Small French Paintings from the Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection
• Forty Years of Exhibitions: A Baker’s Dozen Memorable Shows
• The Sydney J. Freedberg Lecture on Italian Art 2018: Against Titian
• Picturing Alexander Hamilton
• Present Tense: Corot, Photography, and the Body
• Introduction to the Exhibition—Gordon Parks: The New Tide, Early Work 1940–1950
• Cataloging the Corcoran Collection: The Story of American Print Publishing
• John Edmonds
• Cataloging the Corcoran Collection: Highlights in the Department of Photographs
• The Christmas Story in Art
• Arnold Newman Lecture Series on Photography: Dawoud Bey
• Four Centuries of American Chairs
• linn meyers: work
• Painting and Representation
• Chartres: Light Reborn
• The Art of Light: A Conversation with Charles Ross and James Meyer
• Boutet de Monvel’s Jeanne d’Arc: From Print to Paint, a Transatlantic Journey with an Unsolved Mystery
• Boutet de Monvel’s Jeanne d’Arc: The Role of the Bibliophile in the Development of a French Medieval Aesthetic
• Boutet de Monvel’s Jeanne d’Arc: The Passion for All Things Post-Medieval: A Multimedia Perspective
• Boutet de Monvel’s Jeanne d’Arc: The Corcoran Commission and Installation at the National Gallery
• Pop without Pretense: Mass Media and the Art of James Castle
• Rachel Whiteread Symposium, Part 1: Rachel Whiteread: Weathering, Patina, Time
• Rachel Whiteread Symposium, Part 2: Three Halcyon Arts Lab Fellows Respond
• Rachel Whiteread Symposium, Part 3: A Conversation with Lynne Cooke and Cristina Iglesias
• Rachel Whiteread Symposium, Part 4: Remarks and Discussion
• Watching Thinking: Self-Reflection and the Study of Process in Drawing
• The Undefeated
• USCO: A Conversation with 1960s Multimedia Pioneers
• Hip-Hop’s Great Day: Gordon Parks and a Legacy of Photographic Inspiration
• Black Dreams at Sea: The Sardine Fisherman’s Funeral and An Opera of the World
• Introduction to the Exhibition—Tintoretto: Artist of Renaissance Venice
• Oral History Interview with I. M. Pei
• Tradition: An Artist Awakening through Practicing the Past
• Washington Color School: Kenneth Victor Young
• Model Citizens: Frances Benjamin Johnston at the Tuskegee Institute
• Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
• Introduction to the Exhibition—The Life of Animals in Japanese Art
• Tintoretto Lecture Series, Part 1—Tintoretto in Context: Framing Tintoretto: Sixteenth-Century Venetian Painting
• Tintoretto Lecture Series, Part 2—Tintoretto: The Early Work
• Tintoretto Lecture Series, Part 3—Tintoretto Central: The Scuola Grande di San Rocco
• Tintoretto Lecture Series, Part 4—In Situ: Tintoretto in Venice
• If I Survive: Frederick Douglass and Family in the Walter O. Evans Collection
• Shared Exploration: Music and the Visual Arts
• Jarob Ortiz | nga
• The Roles and Representations of Animals in Japanese Art and Culture, Part 1—The War of the Twelve Animals: Anthropomorphosis and Allegory in Medieval Japan
• The Roles and Representations of Animals in Japanese Art and Culture, Part 2—A Compassionate Heart for Pitiful Beasts: Animals in Japanese Religions
• The Roles and Representations of Animals in Japanese Art and Culture, Part 3—Bookish Beasts: Reading Animals in Japanese Illustrated Fiction
• The Roles and Representations of Animals in Japanese Art and Culture, Part 4—East Meets West: The Introduction of Exotic Animals to Japan
• The Roles and Representations of Animals in Japanese Art and Culture, Part 5—Let the Animals Speak: The Language of Animals in Japan
• The Roles and Representations of Animals in Japanese Art and Culture, Part 6—Art, Science, and the Representation of Nature
• The Roles and Representations of Animals in Japanese Art and Culture, Part 7—Animals in Contemporary Japanese Art and Fashion
• From the Cathedral to the Billiard Room: Tracing the History of a Medieval Stained Glass Window from the William A. Clark Collection
• Mary Pinchot Meyer: Artist
• The Sculpture of David Smith (1906–1965), Part 1
• The Sculpture of David Smith (1906–1965), Part 2
• 2019 Summer Sunday Lecture Series: I. M. Pei: A Celebration of His Life and Work
• Signed JV, but not by Vermeer: Jacobus Vrel’s “Young Woman in an Interior”
• Augusta Savage: A Woman of Her Word
• Photography from the Sunny Side of the Alps
• The Art and Literature of the Great War
• Two Writers on Art, Music, and Modality
• FAPE 2019: Ken Burns and the American Story
• American Pre-Raphaelitism through the Lens and on the Canvas
• The End of the Sixties: Kerry James Marshall’s “Mementos”
• Conversations with Artists: Oliver Lee Jackson
• 2019 Summer Sunday Lecture Series: Celebrating the Old Master Collections of the National Gallery of Art: Dutch Art of the Golden Age, 1600–1675
• 2019 Summer Sunday Lecture Series: Celebrating the Old Master Collections of the National Gallery of Art: Venetian Painting, 1350–1800
• 2019 Summer Sunday Lecture Series: Celebrating the Old Master Collections of the National Gallery of Art: British Painting, 1700–1850
• 2019 Summer Lecture Series: Celebrating the Old Master Collections of the National Gallery of Art: American Painting, 1700–1900
• 2019 Summer Sunday Lecture Series: Celebrating the Old Master Collections of the National Gallery of Art: Masterpieces of American Furniture from the Kaufman Collection, 1700–1830
• 2019 Summer Sunday Lecture Series: Celebrating the Old Master Collections of the National Gallery of Art: Central Italian Painting, 1300–1520
• 2019 Summer Sunday Lecture Series: Celebrating the Old Master Collections of the National Gallery of Art: French Art of the 18th Century
• The Role of Libraries in our Cultural Landscape
• Photography and Nation Building in the Nineteenth Century
• Fifteenth-Century Florentine and Tuscan Sculpture in the National Gallery of Art
• Introduction to the Exhibition—The Touch of Color: Pastels at the National Gallery of Art
• The Living Legacy National Speaking Tour: David C. Driskell and Curlee R. Holton in Conversation
• Instructional Videos: Didactic Documentary for the Postmodern Era
• Collaborations and Investigations in Sound: Alex Braden and Emily Francisco in Conversation
• Cima da Conegliano and Venetian Landscape Painting
• Executed En Masse: Early Modern Portrait Prints at the National Gallery of Art
• The Sydney J. Freedberg Lecture on Italian Art: Andrea Mantegna’s Stones, Caves, and Clouds
• Verrocchio’s Medici Tombs: New Observations and Technical Analysis
• The Artist's Sketchbook: A Personal View
• Art and Photography in the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, Part I
• Art and Photography in the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, Part II
• Verrocchio and the Interplay between the Arts
• USCO | nga
• Before the Kodak Girl: Women in Nineteenth-Century Photography
• Introduction to the Exhibition—Alonso Berruguete: First Sculptor of Renaissance Spain
• Space Still the Place―d.c. space Part II and Its Contemporaries: 1974–1991
• Photographing the Moon: An Evening with Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Curators, Part 1
• Photographing the Moon: An Evening with Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Curators, Part 2
• Photographing the Moon: An Evening with Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Curators, Part 3
• Introduction to the Exhibition—Verrocchio: Sculptor and Painter of Renaissance Florence
• Collecting European Landscape Sketches: An Introduction to Open-Air Painting in Europe, 1780–1870
• A Conversation with Richard Mosse
• COMPACT ASSEMBLY
• Something, Anything, Everything, Nothing: Ambiguity, Meaning, and Experience
• Weather in Art: From Symbol to Science
• The Moon in the Age of Photography
• Introduction to the Exhibition—Degas at the Opéra
• Painting in the Open Air: A Conversation with Ann Lofquist
• Raphael and His Circle: Introductory Slide Overview
• Introduction to the Exhibition—Raphael and His Circle
• Degas at the Opéra: Introductory Slide Overview
• The Problem with Renoir: A Hard Look at the Artist on the Centennial of His Death
• Coding Our Collection: The National Gallery of Art Datathon
• The Easter Story in Art
• Cats in the National Gallery of Art's Permanent Collection
• Speech on the Dedication of the National Gallery of Art: Paul Mellon
• Remarks on the Dedication of the National Gallery of Art: Samuel H. Kress
• Remarks on the Dedication of the National Gallery of Art: Charles Evans Hughes
• Local to Global: Teaching Critical Thinking through Art—the Gallery’s first MOOC
• Black Opera as Architecture: A Conversation with Kimberly Drew, Alicia Hall Moran, and Imani Uzuri
• Blurred Identities: The Art and Audience of Lynching Photography
• “the artifice of justice”: A Conversation with Reginald Dwayne Betts, Candice C. Jones, and Richard Ross
• Arnold Newman Lecture Series on Photography: Teju Cole and Fazal Sheikh