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Renoir and Friends: Luncheon of the Boating Party 

Renoir and Friends: Luncheon of the Boating Party will focus on The Phillips Collection’s celebrated Luncheon of the Boating Party (1880-1881) by Pierre-Auguste…

Paul Graham: The Whiteness of the Whale

"Paul Graham (born 1956), an internationally renowned British photographer, has been at the forefront of contemporary photography since the 1980s. His work is celebrated for its unique blend of…

Making Africa: A Continent of Contemporary Design

The High Museum of Art will be the first venue in the United States to present this major touring exhibition, which offers a fresh look at African design through a myriad of diverse works by more…

Painter and Poet: The Wonderful World of Ashley Bryan

Author and artist Ashley Bryan’s remarkable career spans half a century, during which time he has published more than fifty titles. This exhibition celebrates his work and showcases the breadth of…

Teotihuacan: City of Water, City of Fire

Teotihuacan: City of Water, City of Fire will explore how artworks from the ancient city shape our understanding of Teotihuacan as an urban environment. One of the earliest, largest…

The Māori Portraits: Gottfried Lindauer's New Zealand

Come face to face with the leading Māori protagonists of nineteenth-century New Zealand (Aotearoa) in a series of arresting images by the country’s most prolific portrait painter, Gottfried…

Tamayo: The New York Years

"Rufino Tamayo’s lushly colored paintings portraying modern Mexican subjects earned him widespread acclaim as an artist who balanced universal themes with a local sensibility. …

Rick Araluce: The Final Stop

Rick Araluce: The Final Stop transforms a gallery into an abandoned underground subway platform in the artist’s first large-scale installation on the East Coast. Stepping on to the…

Kara Walker: Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)

In Kara Walker’s art, the present is defined by the past and the past exerts a savage power. For more than two decades, Walker has been making work that weaves together nostalgia for an imagined…

Parallax Gap

Parallax Gap transforms the Renwick Gallery’s Bettie Rubenstein Grand Salon into a visual puzzle. This immersive, site-specific installation explores examples of interplay between…

Otobong Nkanga: To Dig a Hole That Collapses Again

Born in Nigeria and now based in Antwerp, Otobong Nkanga explores the contested social and political histories of colonialism, with a particular focus on the relationship between Africa and the…

Erika Dalya Massaquoi on Brenna Youngblood's "X"

“When you look at this piece, what you see is a sort of void of blackness. But within that I see, more than a void, I see possibility. I’ve been really interested in this idea of black joy that…

Margarito d'Arezzo and a Revolution in Collecting

"Senior Research Curator Susanna Avery-Quash explores the history of taste in the National Gallery's collection. Learn about one of the earliest paintings in the Gallery's collection, Margarito d'…

Restorer Jill Dunkerton tells about the raising of Wtewael's masterpiece from the Wycombe Museum.

"Restorer Jill Dunkerton tells about the raising of Wtewael's masterpiece from the Wycombe Museum." - The National Gallery 

Degas and the French Impressionists

"Senior Research Curator Susanna Avery-Quash explores the history of taste in the National Gallery's collection. Discover how Degas's 'Beach Scene' came to be one of the first French Impressionist…