The National Gallery of Art is Open!
As of July 12, 2021 you no longer need passes to visit the National Gallery, and our daily hours are 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Bring the whole family to explore exhibitions currently on view and grab coffee beverages from the newly redesigned Garden Café or our three other dining locations. Viewing from home? Enjoy a variety of virtual programs, including our newest talks.
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Exhibition Opening
James Van Der Zee’s Photographs: A Portrait of Harlem
November 28, 2021 – May 30, 2022
West Building, Ground Floor, Gallery 22
Experience life in Harlem during the first half of the 20th century through the lens of James Van Der Zee. This exhibition presents some 40 works from the National Gallery’s collection, including several recent acquisitions.
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Now On View
The New Woman Behind the Camera
Through January 30, 2022
West Building, Ground Floor, West Outer Tier
Featuring more than 120 photographers from over 20 countries, this groundbreaking exhibition explores the diverse women who embraced photography as a mode of professional and personal expression from the 1920s to the 1950s. The first to take a global approach, this exhibition examines how women brought their own perspectives to artistic experimentation, studio portraiture, fashion and advertising work, scenes of urban life, ethnography, and photojournalism, profoundly shaping the medium during a time of tremendous social and political change.
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Clouds, Ice, and Bounty: The Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Collection of Seventeenth-Century Dutch and Flemish Paintings
Through February 27, 2022
West Building, Dutch and Flemish Cabinet Galleries
Visit our newly refurbished Dutch and Flemish Cabinet Galleries to explore this exhibition, which considers how paintings blend reality and fiction. It reveals the values of the artists who made the paintings, the patrons who commissioned them, and the collectors who cherished them.
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Aquatint: From its Origins to Goya
Through February 21, 2022
West Building, Ground Floor, Inner Tier
The first exhibition of its type in the United States, Aquatint explores a cross-cultural and cosmopolitan phenomenon contributing to the rise of art publishing, connoisseurship, leisure travel, and drawing instruction, as well as the spread of neoclassicism. Enjoy curator Rena M. Hoisington’s video introduction to the exhibition on our YouTube channel.
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Current Programs
THE ART OF LOOKING
Edward Willis Redfield, The Mill in Winter
Friday, December 3, 1:00 p.m.
In the spirit of the season, this winter scene inspires our interactive conversation. Join us to share your observations, questions, and ideas. Build on your first impressions to broaden your understanding of this work.
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FILM
Zou Zou
Streaming through December 6
Starring the inimitable Josephine Baker, Zou Zou tells of unrequited love and overnight stardom. Already established as a mega-star in France thanks to her iconic stage performances at the Folies Bergère, Baker possessed a palpable screen charisma.
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LECTURE
Josephine Baker as a “Rememory” of Global Black Cinema?
Sunday, December 5, 2:00 p.m
Josephine Baker is both an international cultural figure and an African American film pioneer. In our 2021 Rajiv Vaidya Memorial Lecture, Terri Simone Francis reflects on Baker’s influence on the visual arts, addressing absences and silences in film history. Francis draws on the idea of “rememory”—a remembered memory—as well as Baker’s career to reconstruct the global beginnings of Black cinema.
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PODCAST
Bonus Sound Thoughts on Art Episode Out Now
“When I saw Van Der Zee’s photo, I imagined this finely dressed pair stepping out of their car and heading upstairs to pay their 25 cents to eat pork chops and dance until the small hours.” Host Celeste Headlee discusses Couple, Harlem—and her grandfather William Grant Still’s music—with Diane Waggoner, curator of our new exhibition James Van Der Zee’s Photographs: A Portrait of Harlem.
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GALLERY SHOPS ONLINE
The Gallery Shops are online. Discover a variety of art-inspired items to bring joy and creativity to your home—from children’s activities to puzzles, picnic blankets to fine jewelry.
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The Sculpture Garden Ice Rink
Ice Skating Returns for the 2021-2022 Season
November 19, 2021 – March 6, 2022 (weather permitting)
Sunday – Thursday, 11:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Friday – Saturday, 11:00 a.m. – 11:00 p.m.
The ice rink will be closed when it rains or in extreme temperatures. The ice rink is closed on December 25 and January 1.
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