National Gallery of Art

The National Gallery of Art presents I Spy: Photography and the Theater of the Street, 1938–2010, on view in the West Building from April 22 through August 5, 2012. The exhibition is devoted to street photographs by some of the genre's greatest innovators: Walker Evans (1903–1975), Harry Callahan (1912–1999), Robert Frank (b. 1924), Bruce Davidson (b. 1933), Philip-Lorca diCorcia (b. 1951), and Beat Streuli (b. 1957). "The Gallery is pleased to continue its long tradition of ...

The National Gallery of Art announces the launch today of NGA Images, a new online resource that revolutionizes the way the public may interact with its world-class collection at http://images.nga.gov. This repository of digital images documenting the National Gallery of Art collections allows users to search, browse, share, and download images believed to be in the public domain. "As the Gallery marks its 71st anniversary, it is fitting that we introduce NGA Images and an ...

Washington, DC—Craig Clunas, professor of the history of art, University of Oxford, will present the 61st A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts series, entitled Chinese Painting and Its Audiences, this spring at the National Gallery of Art in Washington. The series will include the following lectures: Beginning and Ending in Chinese Painting March 11 The Gentleman March 18 The Emperor March 25 The Merchant April 1 The Nation April 15 The People April 22 ...

WASHINGTON, DC—The National Gallery of Art has acquired one of fewer than a dozen known still lifes painted in the late 1840s by African American artist Robert Seldon Duncanson (1821–1872). Classically composed, Still Life with Fruit and Nuts (1848) depicts fruit arranged in a tabletop pyramid in which the smooth surfaces of beautifully rendered fruit contrast with textured nutshells. The acquisition was made possible with funds from Ann and Mark Kington/The Kington Foundation and the ...

Some of the most compelling photographs taken by renowned 20th-century American poet Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997) of himself and his fellow Beat poets and writers—including William S. Burroughs, Neal Cassady, Gregory Corso, and Jack Kerouac―are the subject of the first scholarly exhibition and catalogue of these works. Beat Memories: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg will explore all facets of his photographs through some 80 black-and-white portraits, on view at the National Gallery of Art, ...