Events for the Week of April 18-24, 2011

EVENTS FOR THE WEEK OF APRIL 18-24, 2011 WORKS IN PROGRESS   April 18 at 12:10 and 1:10 pm Bernini as a Court Artist Carolina Mangone, Joseph F. McCrindle Foundation Graduate Curatorial Fellow, National Gallery of Art East Building Concourse, Small Auditorium www.nga.gov/programs/lectures/#wip LECTURES   April 22 at 3:00 pm Meeting Metsu: ANOTHER Dutch Master Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr., curator of northern baroque paintings, National Gallery of Art; Pieter Roelofs, curator of seventeenth-century paintings, Rijksmuseum; and Adriaan E. Waiboer, curator of northern European art, National Gallery of Ireland East Building Concourse, Auditorium April 24 at 2:00 pm The Poetics of Dislocation: Narrative in the Painting of Caravaggio Lorenzo Pericolo, Robert H. Smith Senior Research Associate, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art East Building Concourse, Auditorium www.nga.gov/programs/lectures GALLERY TALKS   April 18 at 2:00 Where Science Meets Art Kristin DeGhetaldi (50 minutes) West Building Main Floor, Rotunda April 19 at 12:00 Modern Lab Sydney Skelton Simon and Sally Shelburne (45 minutes) East Building Ground Level, Information Desk April 20 at 12:00 pm Gauguin: Maker of Myth Sally Shelburne, David Gariff, J. Russell Sale, or Diane Arkin (60 minutes) East Building Ground Level, Information Desk April 21-24 at 12:00 pm Gabriel Metsu, 1629–1667 Eric Denker or J. Russell Sale (60 minutes) West Building Main Floor, Rotunda www.nga.gov/programs/galtalks/ GALLERY TOURS   Through April 30 - Weekdays at 10:30 am, 3:30 pm; Saturday at 10:30 am, 1:30 pm, 3:30 pm; Sunday at 11:30 am, 4:30 pm Early Italian to Early Modern: An Introduction to the West Building Collection West Building Main Floor, Rotunda Through April 30 - Weekdays at 11:30 am, 1:30 pm; Weekends at 11:30 am, 3:30 pm 1900 to Now: An Introduction to the East Building Collection East Building Ground Level, Information Desk Through April 30 - Monday, Tuesday, Sunday at 12:30 pm and Saturday at 11:30 am The Sculpture Galleries West Building Main Floor, Rotunda Through April 30 - Weekdays at 1:30 pm; Saturday at 3:30 pm; Sunday at 2:30 pm American Collection West Building Main Floor, Rotunda Through April 30 - Monday–Saturday at 2:30 pm; Sunday at 1:30 pm Italian Renaissance Collection West Building Main Floor, Rotunda Through April 30 - Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday at 12:30 pm; Sunday at 3:30 pm French Collection: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century West Building Main Floor, Rotunda Through April 29 - Friday at 12:30 pm Points of View: The Painter's Choices West Building Main Floor, Rotunda Through April 30 - Friday at 12:30 pm; Saturday at 1:30 pm Sculpture Garden (weather permitting) Sculpture Garden, Pavilion Cafe www.nga.gov/programs/tours/ FOREIGN LANGUAGE TOURS   April 18 at 12:00 and 2:00 pm French West Building Main Floor, Rotunda at 12:00 pm East Building Ground Level, Information Desk at 2:00 pm April 19, 23 at 12:00 and 2:00 pm German West Building Main Floor, Rotunda at 12:00 pm East Building Ground Level, Information Desk at 2:00 pm April 20 at 12:00 and 2:00 pm Japanese West Building Main Floor, Rotunda at 12:00 pm East Building Ground Level, Information Desk at 2:00 pm April 22 at 12:00 pm Spanish tour of American art West Building Main Floor, Rotunda at 12:00 pm www.nga.gov/programs/tours/#foreign Events are free and open to the public. Seating is available on a first-come, first-seated basis. Registration is not required. Join us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter Watch our videos on ArtBabble Notable Lectures Podcasts: The National Gallery of Art provides access to lectures by well-known artists, architects, authors, curators, and historians. RSS | iTunes | www.nga.gov/podcasts

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