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Films:  Every Contact Leaves a Trace with Grazing on Images 

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Films:  Barbara Forever! 

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Concerts & Performances:  Georgia Heers 

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Films:  Truman and Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation

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Films:  Singin’ in the Rain

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A butter-yellow sky fills the top two-thirds of this square landscape painting while in the bottom third, a brown structure is surrounded by golden yellow and pine-green forms like clouds. The scene is loosely painted with visible brushstrokes, so much of the detail is indistinct, and the view seems hazy. Clouds spiral around the sun or moon, painted as a pale yellow disk, hanging in the center of the sky. The golden yellow clouds near the center darken to slate gray then rust brown, and nearly wine red along the top edge. A flock of birds painted as a dense band of navy and denim-blue Vs curve around the sun and continue into the deep distance. Below, touches of burgundy red and brown could indicate people or animals around the arched, copper-brown structure. Cloud-like puffs in forest green and golden yellow could be a forest or wildly crashing waves. A few faint outlines in this area suggest a bear, crocodile, giraffe, and maybe other ghostly creatures.

Talks & Conversations:  The Art of Looking: Joseph Mallord William Turner, The Evening of the Deluge

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Exhibition:  In the Tower: Chakaia Booker

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Exhibition:  Back and Forth

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Close to us, a young man and three boys sit or recline in a small sailboat that tips to our left on a choppy dark green sea in this horizontal painting. The billowing sail extends off the top left corner of the canvas and is echoed in the background to our right by the tall sails of another ship in the distance. The horizon line comes about a third of the way up the composition, and puffy gray and white clouds sweep across the turquoise sky. The sun lights the scene from our right so the boys’ ruddy faces are in shadow under their hats. The young man and boys all face our left so they lean against and into the boat as it cants up to our right. The boy nearest the sail to our left reclines across the bow. Next to him to our right, a younger boy perches on the edge of the boat and holds on with both hands. The oldest, in a red shirt, sits on the floor of the boat as he maneuvers the sail with a rope. Closer to us and to our right, a younger boy sits with his bare feet pressed together in front of his bent knees on the back edge of the boat, gazing into the distance over his right shoulder as he handles the tiller. The artist signed and dated the painting in dark letters in the lower right corner: “HOMER 1876.”

Exhibition:  Celebrating American Art

Ongoing from March 1, 2026

Exhibition:  Thomas Cole

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Exhibition:  Mark Rothko

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Guided Tours:  The Collection, Up Close

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Guided Tours:  Impressionism and 19th-Century France  

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

Guided Tours:  American Art

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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.

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Guided Tours:  Understanding Modern and Contemporary Art

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Guided Tours:  Sculpture Garden Tours 

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Guided Tours:  The Collection, Up Close

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