Location

The National Gallery of Art will celebrate the reopening of these galleries with the following public programs. All programs are without charge in the East Building Auditorium unless otherwise noted. Seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis.

Lecture Program
January 29, 2:00
Nineteenth-Century Redux: A New Look at a Great Collection of French Paintings
Mary Morton, curator and head, National Gallery of Art Department of French paintings
East Building Auditorium

Meet the Curators
January 29, 3:00
Following the lecture, the French paintings department curators will be in the galleries
for a question-and-answer session

Film Program
January 29, 5:00
New Restoration: French CanCan
Gaumont's luminous restoration of Jean Renoir's classic tale of the origins of the Moulin Rouge. With its sensuous color and soft lighting, the film remains an enduring homage to Renoir's father, Auguste, and other artists of the era, especially Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Edgar Degas. (Jean Renoir, 1954, DCP from 35 mm, 102 minutes) East Building Auditorium

Concerts
January 28 and 29, 1:00 - 4:00pm
The Singers Companye, Men in Blaque, and Organist Alexander Frey
A festival of French music from the 1870s to the 1910s
West Building, East Garden Court

January 29, 6:30
National Gallery of Art Vocal Ensemble
Music by Fauré and other French composers
West Building, West Garden Court

Following a two-year renovation, the galleries devoted to impressionism and post-impressionism in the West Building of the National Gallery of Art reopen. The museum houses a superb collection of paintings by Manet, Monet, Renoir, Cézanne, Van Gogh, and Gauguin, which with other later 19th-century French paintings will return to public view in a freshly conceived installation organized around thematic, monographic, and art historical groupings.