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Breaking the Frame: In Conversation with Todd Gray
Todd Gray (b. 1954, lives and works in Los Angeles and Akwidaa, Ghana) is a photo-based artist known for his lush assemblages composed of framed, stacked photographs-with his largest spanning over 30 feet. His imagery ranges from imperial European gardens, West African landscapes, and architecture, to rock icons and self-portraits, all carefully arranged to create critical juxtapositions that examine ideas of African diaspora, colonialism, societal power structures, and dominant cultural beliefs. Gray earned his BFA and MFA from California Institute of the Arts in 1979 and 1989, respectively. Among his many awards and fellowships are the Bellagio Creative Arts Fellowship (2016), The Rockefeller Foundation (2016), John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship for Fine Arts (2018), and Rome Prize Fellowship, Visual Arts, American Academy in Rome, (2022-23). In this conversation with Kanitra Fletcher, the National Gallery's associate curator of African American and Afro-Diasporic art, learn about Todd Gray’s multidisciplinary practice and his innovative approach to photography. “Atlantic (Double Dutch)” (2022), an example of Gray’s “photo-sculptures,” is included in the National Gallery’s collection.
The Elson Lecture Series features distinguished contemporary artists who are represented in the Gallery's permanent collection. The Honorable and Mrs. Edward E. Elson generously endowed this series in 1992. Find out more about the Elson Lecture Series on our website:     
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Portraits & Perspective: Wendy MacNaughton on Dorothea Lange
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Portraits & Perspective: Wendy MacNaughton on Dorothea Lange
Close Looking | Sol LeWitt, Four-Sided Pyramid (1999)
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Explore Sol LeWitt’s sculpture Four-Sided Pyramid, with prompts to guide your looking, in this video filmed in the National Gallery of Art’s Sculpture Garden. The Teaching Complex Thinking through Art video series is part of an edX online course for educators of all levels and subjects, featuring strategies for making connections to artworks, exploring viewpoints with empathy, and uncovering co...
Understanding Dorothea Lange's Impact on Documentary Photography
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Arnold Newman Lecture Series on Photography Experimental Documentary Now: Carolyn Drake and Susan Meiselas In conjunction with Dorothea Lange: Seeing People, the National Gallery of Art invited award-winning artists Carolyn Drake and Susan Meiselas for a conversation moderated by Philip Brookman, the National Gallery's consulting curator in the department of photographs. During her long, prolif...
Latinx Art and the Intimacy of Dislocation
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Society-including artists, lawmakers, and the media-continues to grapple with a category problem: how to define Latine/a/o/x experience. Changing terms reflect cultural contradictions comprising an archive of visual practices that spans over 50 years. Art historian and poet Roberto Tejada (University of Houston) looks closely at an intergenerational cross section of artists and their work and b...
The Power of Community and Leadership
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As part of The Land Carries Our Ancestors symposium, the National Gallery of Art invited artists and museum professionals-heather ahtone, Melissa Melero-Moose, and Elizabeth A. Woody-to share about the impact of their leadership roles in cultural organizations. Shana Bushyhead Condill, executive director of the Museum of the Cherokee Indian, moderated this conversation. Still haven’t subscribed...
Impacting Community Through Art and Education
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As part of The Land Carries Our Ancestors symposium, the National Gallery of Art invited artists-Keith BraveHeart, Sean Chandler, and Gerald Clarke Jr.-whose academic and educational work benefits their communities. Gabrielle A. Tayac, associate professor in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences and founder of the Public History Lab at George Mason University, moderated this conversatio...
Joy Harjo and Jaune Quick-to-See Smith Explore Art Inspired by the Land
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As part of The Land Carries Our Ancestors symposium, the National Gallery of Art invited Joy Harjo, the 23rd United States Poet Laureate, and Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, curator of The Land Carries Our Ancestors, to discuss the exhibition theme of reverence, study, and concern for the land. Harjo's poem "Once the World Was Perfect" from her 2015 book Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings is feature...
Exploring Indigenous Perspectives: Sky Hopinka's Cinematic Landscape
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Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk Nation/Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians) is an artist, poet, and recent MacArthur Fellowship “Genius Grant” awardee who works with film, video, photography, and text to center personal positions of Indigenous homeland and landscape. Hopinka’s work foregrounds designs of language as containers of culture expressed through personal, documentary, and non-fiction forms of medi...
Poetry is a Country: Ilya Kaminsky on Alberto Giacometti’s Walking Man II
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As part of our “Poetry is a country” festival the National Gallery of Art’s Wilmerding Symposium invited celebrated American poets to compose something new inspired by art in our collection. Ilya Kaminsky, professor of creative writing at Princeton University, responds to Alberto Giacometti’s sculpture Walking Man II.
Sofonisba Anguissola: Recent Discoveries and Debates
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Until recently, the painter Sofonisba Anguissola was barely known to most audiences. Now, after multiple recent exhibitions, she is increasingly recognized as one of the major figures of the later Italian Renaissance. Nevertheless, much about her identity and production as an artist remains elusive. This talk, presented by Michael Cole of Columbia University, considers how the study of Sofonisb...
Unveiling Contemporary Artist Ann Hamilton's 30-Year Odyssey
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Ann Hamilton presented a lecture on her nearly 30-year career as part of the Diamonstein-Spielvogel Lecture Series at the National Gallery of Art on September 16, 2011. Hamilton has made multimedia installations with stunning qualities and quantities of materials: a room lined with small canvas dummies, a table spread with human and animal teeth, the artist herself wearing a man's suit covered ...
Exhibition Overview: Mark Rothko: Paintings on Paper
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Joy, despair, ecstasy, tragedy: these are some of the themes that Mark Rothko sought to express in his luminous art. Rothko is renowned for his towering abstract paintings on canvas, but few people know that he also created nearly 1,000 paintings on paper over the course of his career. He viewed many of these as finished paintings in their own right-not simply preliminary studies intended for h...
Mark Rothko: Insights from Arne Glimcher and the Rothko Family
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To celebrate the exhibition opening of Mark Rothko: Paintings on Paper, the National Gallery of Art hosted a conversation about Mark Rothko’s life and work with three people who have contributed significantly to the public accessibility and understanding of his art: Rothko’s children, Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko, and gallerist Arne Glimcher. Adam Greenhalgh, associate curator at t...
Conversations with Artists: G. Daniel Massad with Eric Denker
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Dan Massad is one of the finest pastel artists working today. His pastels are noteworthy not only for their refined technique but also for their multivalent references. Eric Denker, senior lecturer in the education division, interviews the artist on his work and pastel techniques, in conjunction with the exhibition The Touch of Color: Pastels at the National Gallery of Art which features Massad...
"Poetry is a Country": Naomi Shihab Nye on Max Beckmann’s "Falling Man"
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"Poetry is a Country": Naomi Shihab Nye on Max Beckmann’s "Falling Man"
"Poetry is a Country": Jorie Graham on Edouard Vuillard’s "Repast in a Garden"
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"Poetry is a Country": Jorie Graham on Edouard Vuillard’s "Repast in a Garden"
"Poetry is a Country": Keynote Address: Ada Limón on Andy Goldsworthy's "Roof"
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"Poetry is a Country": Keynote Address: Ada Limón on Andy Goldsworthy's "Roof"
Stephen D. Houston on Vital Signs: The Visual Cultures of Maya Writing, Part 4
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Stephen D. Houston on Vital Signs: The Visual Cultures of Maya Writing, Part 4
Artists on Philip Guston: Jessica Jackson Hutchins, Walter Price, and Devin Troy Strother
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Artists on Philip Guston: Jessica Jackson Hutchins, Walter Price, and Devin Troy Strother
Christina Fernandez on Making Invisible Labor Visible
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Christina Fernandez on Making Invisible Labor Visible
Exhibition Overview: Philip Guston: The Capacity of Painting
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Exhibition Overview: Philip Guston: The Capacity of Painting
Lorna Simpson on Memory and Representation
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Lorna Simpson on Memory and Representation
Sunil Gupta on Community and Activism
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Sunil Gupta on Community and Activism
Teju Cole and Fazal Sheikh on Collaboration, Generosity, and Infinite Patience
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Teju Cole and Fazal Sheikh on Collaboration, Generosity, and Infinite Patience
Dawoud Bey on American History and Seeing Deeply
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Dawoud Bey on American History and Seeing Deeply
"Philip Guston Now" exhibition catalogue
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"Philip Guston Now" exhibition catalogue
David Gariff on the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, Part 2
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David Gariff on the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, Part 2
Art and Preservation: Jeff Koons and Anna Deavere Smith
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Art and Preservation: Jeff Koons and Anna Deavere Smith
Gina Marchetti on Women Directors in Contemporary Chinese Cinema
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Gina Marchetti on Women Directors in Contemporary Chinese Cinema

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @jrdavisphd
    @jrdavisphd День тому

    Wonderful presentation! Thank you for talking about the Corcoran Collection.

  • @randyklinger7649
    @randyklinger7649 2 дні тому

    It's pronounced Con-il-yano (gli = sounds like 'million')

  • @JonathanAnderson-go3gm
    @JonathanAnderson-go3gm 6 днів тому

    I don't think the Holocaust should be the pivotal defining event of western culture. You have to ignore so many other atrocities to make that your reality.

  • @JonathanAnderson-go3gm
    @JonathanAnderson-go3gm 6 днів тому

    Wonderful.

  • @cstarr20001
    @cstarr20001 7 днів тому

    where is part 5 !

  • @rupert.a.watkinswatkins4254
    @rupert.a.watkinswatkins4254 8 днів тому

    Am a self-taught artist and it amazing to see an artist that is inspiring I am from The Bahamas and a survivor of hurricane DORAIN and many other direct hit mega storms i did paintings about the subject . Its amazing manmade super storms disaster is a commodity. I have the painting Dorain posted on my Facebook and Instagram Under Rupert Watkins

  • @lindagriggs8024
    @lindagriggs8024 8 днів тому

    Benjamin Binstock's book, " Vermeer's Family Secrets: Genius, Discovery, and the Unknown Apprentice" posits that Vermeer's daughter was his uncredited studio assistant. In "girl with a flute" it looks he gave her studio scraps to play with, an old panel, a ratty brush and some gritty paint.

  • @alfredpetrie7920
    @alfredpetrie7920 9 днів тому

    I am absolutely speechless

  • @paulrollinson1305
    @paulrollinson1305 14 днів тому

    "They have essentiality" What gobbledegook!

  • @mikepenney5726
    @mikepenney5726 18 днів тому

    I've never found Robert Adams work to be artistic, compelling, or even technically competent. All this flowery language used to describe his pictures is just dishonest fabrication... Aka crap.

  • @theworldwithoutmagic
    @theworldwithoutmagic 22 дні тому

    Nice lecture but this guy’s constant apparent sipping and smacking of lips makes my skin crawl. Couldn’t listen on 😂

  • @andreyarborough
    @andreyarborough 22 дні тому

    Thank you for posting this

  • @crazy-paint1
    @crazy-paint1 24 дні тому

    i could not going to paris. is in the future a new exhibition plant ?

  • @troyflatland5299
    @troyflatland5299 Місяць тому

    Adam is great and more importantly funny! Such a perfect mix. More of him please!!

  • @Florajudau
    @Florajudau Місяць тому

    Her pieces are highly inspirational and extremely unique. Such an inspiration. Thanks for everything you have done Lorna!

  • @niahand3052
    @niahand3052 Місяць тому

    I was so moved by his works when he had an exhibit at the High Museum in Atlanta. I love that he gave credit to the Creator/God for himself, being able to create. ❤ Rev. 4:11

  • @jackbailey7037
    @jackbailey7037 Місяць тому

    23:50 "sorry for the sexism". What a soyboy-academic king-hell jerk remark about a painting.

  • @justinruins
    @justinruins Місяць тому

    "Probably"... 2001:Space Odyssey was fueled with Occultic symbology...once again Art's intellectual short sighted research is a laugh...

  • @OrangeSpritzer
    @OrangeSpritzer Місяць тому

    This is like a spoof of the art world except it's real. Of course they chose a woman and Black men to comment on the artist known for KKK imagery. Guston was art bro hipster slacker alcoholic and an absent father. He was a tumblr artist before tumblr and the art world taking him seriously is why I cannot take the art world seriously. Devin is a literal art troll at the expense of his own race and culture who has no respect for Black women at all. White women arts administrators placing these burn out creeps on a pedestal is very horse girl energy. All parties involved participating in racism and sexism via irony and that's just as bad. You cannot make commentary on horror by embodying said horrors and still believe you are insightful, artistic, or intelligent. You are a jerk.

  • @callmejeffbob
    @callmejeffbob Місяць тому

    Great video; this is one of the very best presentations on David Smith I've seen (and I've seen quite a few). I will come back and watch Part 1 at some point. When I was a kid, my best friend's father was a good friend of David Smith. As a young teenager I was fortunate enough to go with my friend to visit David Smith's farmhouse/studio in Bolton Landing, in upstate New York. David Smith had passed away a few years before in an automobile crash, but I think his widow still lived there and there were still dozens of his amazing sculptures spread out on the undulating fields of the property. I feel very lucky to have a pretty vivid memory of that day! By the way, I had never heard that story about Clement Greenberg stripping the white paint off of a Smith sculpture...Yikes! Whether or not the white paint was a primer coat or the intended final color is somewhat irrelevant, because it was clearly not intended to be unpainted.

  • @steveb2145
    @steveb2145 Місяць тому

    stopped after 2.00 mins...Art museum people full of self importance... I rather enjoy Vermeer ( the important one )without listening to this nonsense and keep the mystery of Vermeer alive.

  • @1977aliveandkicking
    @1977aliveandkicking 2 місяці тому

    Tnx

  • @lilis182
    @lilis182 2 місяці тому

    i would love to go on a road trip with Ed Ruscha

  • @max56789
    @max56789 2 місяці тому

    bore

  • @sb5421
    @sb5421 2 місяці тому

    Excellent lecture, informative, insightful, well-written and well-said.

  • @sandyarnault5369
    @sandyarnault5369 2 місяці тому

    Poorly done!!!

  • @liamc250
    @liamc250 2 місяці тому

    One of my favorite living artists

  • @edwardruane8993
    @edwardruane8993 2 місяці тому

    Sublime!

  • @ginghamt.c.5973
    @ginghamt.c.5973 2 місяці тому

    Hilarious! "Dream team" ? Yeah righ! Luckily masterpiece paintings , such as these by Vermeer, long outlive the alterior motives and short sighted views of lesser mortals...

  • @siavashshaghighi2655
    @siavashshaghighi2655 2 місяці тому

    Very monotonous low pitch voice. Somewhat very boring, sorry to say

  • @LiliBatter
    @LiliBatter 2 місяці тому

    Чому не працює заявлений автоматичний переклад украінською мовою?

  • @DonWood-mb6yb
    @DonWood-mb6yb 2 місяці тому

    Come follow me

  • @pamelabrooks1944
    @pamelabrooks1944 3 місяці тому

    I recently went to this show. It is great. I had never seen his smaller works.

  • @user-nv7cd8md6j
    @user-nv7cd8md6j 3 місяці тому

    Sometimes art talks can be long and tedious but not this one. Very well done, lots of insightful information, well researched. I learned a great deal listening to this, and I am well-read on Rothko. As a bonus, some photos of the artist that I have never seen before. I am sure I will watch this again. Thank you for posting!

  • @xLany
    @xLany 3 місяці тому

    Note to self: stopped at 31:30

  • @abrahamtellez592
    @abrahamtellez592 3 місяці тому

    Oh NGA, how can you have such incredible, high quality content and be so bad at getting it to the masses.

  • @paulkatz
    @paulkatz 3 місяці тому

    "With words we can quibble." Bismarck

  • @lynnhubbard844
    @lynnhubbard844 3 місяці тому

    I saw the LV Paris exhibition, the one in Vienna, and St. Louis Museum of Art...Rothko's son is no public speaker, I have to say. His daughter did a better job walking us through her father's art in Rome and talking about the family trip there (15 years ago)

    • @troyflatland5299
      @troyflatland5299 Місяць тому

      Christopher is lovely and has contributed so so much over the years, it’s very unfair to criticize him like this

  • @robx6098
    @robx6098 3 місяці тому

    Church: what an amazing painter.

  • @stankovamarcela7406
    @stankovamarcela7406 3 місяці тому

    I used to like her, but she doubts and dismiss everything ...and do not offer her own answers and solutions ( I did listen all 6 lectures)

  • @ranoir
    @ranoir 4 місяці тому

    Excellent and amazing exhibition. A mini Rothko retrospective.

  • @ZoilaHoltzer
    @ZoilaHoltzer 4 місяці тому

    Great video

  • @olgaalexander5856
    @olgaalexander5856 4 місяці тому

    Interesting analysis and conjectures spanning decades of dick art; so convoluted and still only two women mentioned and barely at that!!! Imagine how the mention of even a a decade of art created by anyone other than American men, would have changed this analysis of abstract art!!!

  • @jcwt_pdx
    @jcwt_pdx 4 місяці тому

    Beautiful 🤩

  • @jeff__w
    @jeff__w 4 місяці тому

    21:17 “…in fact the *eastern* stela of this configuration of stelae around this four-part building with four different entrances is not only the largest, it is also one with a few more dates and it tells us that this king came from somewhere else. Where did he come from? He came from a city that is oriented physically, with respect to Ceibal, over to the *west* …” Wait, why would a king coming from somewhere over to the _west_ be commemorated by a stela situated on the _east,_ especially when 22:13, say, kings presiding over kingdoms to the north come through the northern doorway? _[Edit:]_ And then the text on the screen 24:06 refers to “new dynasty from east.”

  • @jeff__w
    @jeff__w 4 місяці тому

    6:42 “…no exact provenience…” _Provenience_ refers to the “findspot” of an artifact, most often, the _in situ_ location at the time of archaeological discovery. _Provenance,_ in contrast, refers to the entire “chain of custody” from the artifact’s place of origin (or location of discovery) and its current location (e.g., a museum or a private collection).

  • @wardaledillard8553
    @wardaledillard8553 4 місяці тому

    Great video of a great artist ❤❤❤❤

  • @mpetersen428
    @mpetersen428 4 місяці тому

    Having viewed countless videos on the subject of ancient Rome over the years, I have to say that my two favorite presenters and historians are Mary Beard and Andrew Wallace-Hadrill. Both of them are very original thinkers not addicted to past interpretations and orthodoxies and who are excitingly enthusiastic about their subjects. Their rigorous honesty and senses of humor are admirable, and I am grateful to have encountered both of them in their videos (and, later, their writings).

  • @jeff__w
    @jeff__w 5 місяців тому

    Thoroughly-and surprisingly-compelling talk about an artist that I, like nearly everyone else on the planet, had never even heard of. The story of the detective work involved in uncovering the work of the artist Europe Anguissola and its actual subject, Bianca, the wife of Pietro Giovanni Schinchinelli is fascinating, marred by only the smallest of details: the six words of the response of Rossana Sacchi “You’ll be very happy to know…” 52:54 It works a lot better if Ms Sacchi’s response was “Her name was Bianca. Why do you ask?”