1. Web Site Features Win a Muse Award and a Horizon Interactive AwardTwo features on the Gallery's Web site have recently won awards. Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, and the Renaissance of Venetian Painting received a 2007 Silver Muse Award for "Online Presence." "It is encouraging," wrote the judges, "to see use of the Web medium to accomplish what might not be possible in print.... The user is given access to fascinating, behind-the-scenes images that reveal how these masterpieces were created ... it perfectly captures the ... delight of comparing the under drawings of each painting." Also, the Web site feature Rembrandt's Late Religious Portraits received a 2007 Horizon Interactive Award. | |
2. Videos & PodcastsThe new Videos & Podcasts section on the National Gallery Web site offers visitors a unique opportunity to explore art through multimedia. View premier performances and noteworthy videos and listen to informative, behind-the-scenes discussions and interviews in the audio series. Current highlights include "Out my one window...," an aria from Later the Same Evening: an opera inspired by five paintings of Edward Hopper; "Who Is That Boy in Fancy Dress?" an art talk with Arthur K. Wheelock Jr., curator of northern baroque paintings; and "Photography between the Wars," a conversation with collector Robert Leibowits. | |
3. NGAkids Debuts "BRUSHster"BRUSHster, the newest addition to NGAkids Art Zone, is an abstract painting machine for all ages. This Shockwave interactive program contains more than 40 brushes and textures, many with customizable size, transparency, and stroke options. A full palette of colors and special effects that blur, ripple, smudge, and fragment your designs are among the options offered. BRUSHster has a mind of its own—click the AUTO buttons and let the computer generate screen designs for you, or visit the BRUSHster gallery for examples of visual effects you can create. | |
4. Last Chance to Attend Foto: Modernity in Central Europe, 1918–1945The story of photography's extraordinary success and popularity in Austria, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Hungary, and Poland during a time of tremendous social and political upheaval is presented in the first survey exhibition devoted exclusively to this phenomenon. Foto includes more than 150 photographs, books, and illustrated magazines that reveal modern life in Central Europe between the world wars. A program of films, lectures, and concerts accompanies the exhibition, which is on view through September 3, 2007. | |
5. This Month's Featured Artwork from the National Gallery of Art Permanent Collection: Open Window, Collioure by Henri MatisseMatisse's Open Window, Collioure is an icon of early modernism. A small but explosive work, it is celebrated as one of the most important early paintings of the so-called fauve school, a group of artists, including Andre Derain, Maurice de Vlaminck, and Georges Braque, that emerged in 1904. Fauve paintings are distinguished by a startling palette of saturated, unmixed colors and broad brushstrokes. The effect is one of spontaneity, although the works reveal a calculated assimilation of techniques from post-impressionism and neo-impressionism. Open Window represents the very inception of the new manner in Matisse's art. | |
6. Cool Down in August at the National Gallery of Art
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7. August Calendar of EventsPlan your visit to the Gallery with the help of the August Calendar of Events. Schedules of films, lectures, gallery talks, family activities, and concerts are listed along with information about each event. |
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PLANNING A VISIT / GENERAL INFORMATION This page provides links to the Gallery's hours and location, Calendar of Events, restaurant hours, accessibility information, Gallery history, and news releases. The National Gallery of Art, located on the National Mall between 3rd and 9th Streets at Constitution Avenue NW, is open Monday through Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and Sunday from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. The Gallery is closed on December 25 and January 1. Admission is free. For general information, call (202) 737-4215 or the Telecommunications Device for the Deaf (TDD) at (202) 842-6176. To obtain a free bimonthly Calendar of Events by mail, call (202) 842-6662 or contact us by e-mail at calendar@nga.gov. Please include your mailing address. To receive a free quarterly Film Calendar by mail, contact us by e-mail at film-department@nga.gov. Please include your mailing address. SUPPORT THE GALLERY TO CONTACT US TO MANAGE YOUR SUBSCRIPTION PROBLEMS WITH THE LINKS? This is a post-only mailing address. PLEASE DO NOT REPLY. Image Credits 1. 2007 Horizon Interactive Award |