In Sand Dipper, jazz violinist Jenny Scheinman creates an abstract and overwhelming world. This music, Scheinman says, sounds how El Greco’s painting looks. And it feels like the question on Laocoön’s face as he looks up for the last time.Â
was also senior lecturer in the department of art and art history and a visiting professor
Hip-hop artist Jasiri X looks at Kerry James Marshall’s woodcut almost like he’s looking into a mirror. It captures the experience of a Black man: resilient but restrained from being his authentic self. Jasiri responds to the work through two songs that reflect on his internal struggle.
of Art James Meyer is curator of modern art at the National Gallery and adjunct professor
introduced to photogravure and photomechanical processes by the renowned photo-chemist Professor
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novelist, photography critic for New York Times Magazine (2015–2019), and Gore Vidal Professor
Violinist Peter Sheppard Skærved and National Gallery director Kaywin Feldman discuss Hieronymus Bosch’s Death and the Miser and its symbolism of contrast: light and dark, life and death. Skærved plays a 17th-century violin sonatina that echoes similar contrasts of sensuality and fatality, beauty and mortality.
the ensemble Longbow, Viotti Lecturer at the Royal Academy of Music, and Honorary Professor
An artist, an ecologist, a poet, a chef, a ballet dancer – and more! Discover notable people exploring the many stories revealed in art from the National Gallery’s rich collections. Set your own pace by selecting as many tour stops as you like, in the order you choose. Just enter the track number below, press go, then press the play button when the tour stop appears. Don’t forget your headphones!  Made possible by a grant from the Alice L. Walton Foundation
Professor Joel Fodrie of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is an estuarine
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Fellows are at the heart of our residential community, joining appointed professors
The Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts is the National Gallery’s research institute. We foster the study of the production, use, and cultural meaning of art, artifacts, architecture, urbanism, photography, and film from all places and periods.
Fellowships Fellows are at the heart of our residential community, joining appointed professors
