Articles from National Gallery of Art

Made on the occasion of America’s 250th anniversary, the monumental gift from National Gallery trustee Mitchell Rales will enable countless Americans to experience masterpieces from the nation’s collection in their own communities

Washington, DC, Nov. 15, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Kaywin Feldman, director of the National Gallery of Art, will publish Leadership Succession and Transition for Museums and Arts Organizations: A Guide for Boards and Chief Executives on November 15. Written in her capacity as the director of the nation’s art museum and informed by her 30-year career leading four museums, the book serves as a practical guide to navigating leadership transition in museums, art organizations, and nonprofits.

Washington, DC, April 04, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- (Leer en español) The National Gallery of Art announced today that Natalia Ángeles Vieyra will join the museum as associate curator of Latinx art. She will begin on July 1. This position is made possible thanks to a $500,000 grant from the Getty Foundation as part of the Advancing Latinx Art in Museums (ALAM) initiative with the support of the Mellon, Ford, Getty, and Terra Foundations.

Washington, DC, April 04, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The National Gallery of Art announced today that Lena Stringari will join the museum as chief of conservation. Stringari comes to the National Gallery following a long career at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, where she has served most recently as deputy director and Andrew W. Mellon Chief Conservator.

Washington, DC, Nov. 18, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) frequently recorded his ideas and observations in notes and sketches, regardless of subject matter. More of Leonardo’s drawings have survived than those by any other artist of the Italian Renaissance. Dian Woodner, who has donated many works over the years to the National Gallery of Art, has now given the museum Leonardo’s Grotesque Head of an Old Woman (1489/1490), one of a series of some 30 studies, identical in small format, style, and technique.

Washington, DC, Oct. 11, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- This morning the National Gallery of Art, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Nigerian National Commission for Museums and Monuments (NCMM) held a ceremony to mark the transfer of ownership of the National Gallery of Art’s sole “Benin Bronze” to the Nigerian National Collections along with 29 sculptures from the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African Art (NMAfA), and one sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Museum. These 31 objects from the National Gallery, NMAfA, and RISD Museum are among the first Benin Bronzes to be repatriated to Nigeria by American institutions on the basis of the 1897 British colonial raid of the Royal Palace of Benin.