National Gallery of Art | Talks

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Visual Arts #58

Messages, meanings, movements—how does art history help us understand our world? Join curators, historians, artists, musicians and filmmakers as they explore art and its histories in a search for our shared humanity. Download the programs, then visit us on the National Mall or at www.nga.gov, where you can explore many of the works of art mentioned.

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    Aug 12, 2022 – 51:22
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    Apr 28, 2022 – 51:22
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    Apr 27, 2022 – 51:22
  • John Wilmerding Symposium on American Art and Community Celebration 2022: Afro-Atlantic Histories, Session I: “the afterlife of slavery”
    Apr 26, 2022 – 51:22
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    May 31, 2022 – 51:22
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    May 17, 2022 – 51:22
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    May 3, 2022 – 51:22
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    Apr 22, 2022 – 51:22
  • Season 2, Episode 4: Daniel Ho and Thomas Cole’s Voyage of Life series
    Apr 5, 2022 – 51:22
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    Apr 22, 2022 – 51:22
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    Mar 8, 2022 – 51:22
  • Season 2: Episode 1: Dom Flemons and Marc Chagall’s "Orphée"
    Feb 22, 2022 – 51:22
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    Jan 25, 2022 – 51:22
  • John Wilmerding Symposium on American Art and Community Celebration 2021: Session III: The Nation’s Capital in the Time of Alma Thomas
    Jan 25, 2022 – 51:22
  • John Wilmerding Symposium on American Art and Community Celebration 2021: Session II: Alma Thomas’s Studio Practice and DC Cultural Institutions
    Jan 25, 2022 – 51:22
  • John Wilmerding Symposium on American Art and Community Celebration 2021: Session I: An Evening Celebration of Alma Thomas
    Jan 25, 2022 – 51:22
  • John Wilmerding Symposium on American Art and Community Celebration 2021: Alma W. Thomas: Everything is Beautiful: The Infiniteness of Alma Thomas
    Jan 25, 2022 – 51:22
  • Elson Lecture 2021: Mark Bradford
    Jan 17, 2022 – 51:22
  • Rajiv Vaidya Memorial Lecture 2021: Josephine Baker as a “Rememory” of Global Black Cinema?
    Dec 5, 2021 – 38:20
  • Wyeth Lecture in American Art 2021: Prioritizing Indigenous Communities and Voices: Curating in This Time: Patricia Marroquin Norby, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
    Dec 3, 2021 – 51:22
  • Bonus Episode: Episode 11: Celeste Headlee and James Van Der Zee’s “Couple, Harlem”
    Nov 23, 2021 – 27:03
  • Sydney J. Freedberg Lecture on Italian Art 2021: “More perfect and excellent than men”
    Nov 5, 2021 – 51:22
  • The National Gallery's New YouTube Channel
    Sep 21, 2021 – 00:32
  • Christian McBride and Roy DeCarava’s “David”
    Jun 6, 2021 – 22:11
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    May 30, 2021 – 51:22
  • The 70th A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: Contact: Art and the Pull of Print, Part 5: Interference
    May 23, 2021 – 51:22
  • Daniel Bernard Roumain and "American Gothic"
    May 19, 2021 – 23:20
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    May 16, 2021 – 51:22
  • Nathalie Joachim and Carrie Mae Weems’s "May Flowers"
    May 16, 2021 – 32:26
  • Bora Yoon and "Ommah"
    May 12, 2021 – 25:05
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    May 9, 2021 – 53:39
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    May 2, 2021 – 53:39
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    May 2, 2021 – 27:07
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    Apr 28, 2021 – 25:32
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    Apr 25, 2021 – 46:09
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    Apr 21, 2021 – 27:45
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    Apr 18, 2021 – 17:17
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    Apr 12, 2021 – 24:18
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    Apr 11, 2021 – 24:10
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    Mar 25, 2021 – 18:26
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    Mar 10, 2021 – 1:21
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    Mar 5, 2021 – 51:22
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    Jan 29, 2021 – 51:22
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    Jan 4, 2021 – 61:07
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    Oct 30, 2020 – 51:22
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    Sep 22, 2020 – 51:22
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Recent Reviews
  • Larry pk
    Veronase reception in Britain
    Exellent subject and material marred by very poor speaker. Peter Humfrey would benefit from some 'presentation' training.
  • HagenThomann
    Fantastic show
    I just recently stumbled into this podcast but I couldn’t be happier I did! Fantastic episodes and lots of interesting content. Can’t wait to go back to DC and see ‘The Life of Animals in Japanese Art’! Thank you and keep up the great work!
  • 铿兑有
    Love the lectures but
    Would be wonderful if the audience could see the pictures.
  • musicandartlover
    Art if the Harpsichord
    Very interesting, though one longs to see the photos of the splendid instruments, too. One suggestion: since the speakers thought to conclude their presentation with a performance of Bach on harpsichord, this audio listener would have loved to have heard the full piece. Instead, the podcast faded it out very quickly. Why not include it all? Thanks.
  • NilsNihil
    treasure trove
    Plenty of lectures by people who know what they are talking about. Details, elaborations, evidence. A real pleasure.
  • Lauraiuc
    A wonderful resource
    I'm so grateful to be able to access these amazing lectures, after the fact and from afar. Thank you, National Gallery!
  • Patent Law Blog Reader
    lecturelistener
    Since the NGA started making these podcasts available, my listening time during commute, exercise, and down time have become a valued opportunity to reflect on important issues of the day in art history and appreciation. These treasures are the highest form of public education and I sincerely appreciate the NGA's efforts to bring them to the world of iTunes.
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