National Gallery of Art-Behind the Scenes
This audio series offers entertaining, informative discussions about the arts and events at the National Gallery of Art. The series consists of three programs: ART TALK provides engaging conversations between top cultural figures; BACKSTORY permits listeners to step behind the scenes of a world-class museum with host Barbara Tempchin and guests; and NOTABLE LECTURES gives access to special Gallery talks by well-known curators, historians, and authors.
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102 Episodes of this Podcast:
Editions with Additions: Working Proofs by Jasper Johns
Published: 2009-11-03 08:00:00November 2009, Behind the Scenes - Ruth Fine, curator of special projects in modern art, National Gallery of Art, Washington. The prints of Jasper Johns are heralded for their beauty as well as their conceptual and psychological complexity. A group of the artist's working proofs—prints pulled during the working process on which Johns made drawn and painted additions, recently acquired from the artist by the National Gallery of Art—are showcased here as independent works of art for the first time. On the occasion of the exhibition, curator Fine talks to host Barbara Tempchin about this extraordinary body of work.
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Robert Bergman: Portraits, 1986–1995: A Conversation with the Photographer
Published: 2009-10-13 09:00:00October 2009, Behind the Scenes - Sarah Greenough, senior curator, department of photographs, National Gallery of Art, Washington, and photographer Robert Bergman. Using a handheld 35mm camera and available light, American photographer Robert Bergman spent nearly a decade making a series of large color portraits that address not only his subjects' physical presence but also their psychic state. On the occasion of Bergman’s first solo exhibition, Greenough talks to the artist about his exceptional ability to reveal the common humanity of each of his subjects.
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Hendrick ter Brugghen's "Bagpipe Player"
Published: 2009-10-06 09:00:00October 2009, Behind the Scenes - Arthur K. Wheelock Jr., curator, northern baroque painting, National Gallery of Art, Washington. Dutch artist Hendrick ter Brugghen (1588–1629) is the most important of the Utrecht Caravaggisti, artists who traveled to Rome in the early decades of the 17th century, and who returned to Utrecht having embraced the radical stylistic and thematic ideas of Caravaggio. In this podcast produced on the occasion of a new acquisition, Wheelock talks to host Barbara Tempchin about Ter Brugghen's Bagpipe Player, the first painting of this stylistic group to enter the Gallery's collection.
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The Darker Side of Light: Arts of Privacy, 1850–1900
Published: 2009-09-29 09:00:00September 2009, Behind the Scenes - Peter Parshall, curator, old master prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington. In the private worlds of late nineteenth-century Paris, London, and Berlin, prints depicting mysterious and beautiful subjects were created for those collectors who kept their treasures compiled in albums, locked in cabinets, or displayed in quiet rooms. In this podcast produced on the occasion of the exhibition The Darker Side of Light: Arts of Privacy, 1850–1900, Parshall talks to host Barbara Tempchin about these highly engaging, beguiling works.
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Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings at the National Gallery of Art: Part 3, History of the Collection
Published: 2009-09-22 09:00:00September 2009, Behind the Scenes - Margaret Morgan Grasselli, curator, old master drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington. The National Gallery of Art’s collection of French old master drawings is remarkable for its breadth, depth, and individual masterpieces. In the third Behind the Scenes podcast produced on the occasion of the exhibition Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500–1800, Grasselli talks to host Barbara Tempchin about how this collection has grown since 1942.
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Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings at the National Gallery of Art: Part 2, The 18th Century
Published: 2009-09-15 09:00:00September 2009, Behind the Scenes - Margaret Morgan Grasselli, curator, old master drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington. The National Gallery of Art’s collection of French old master drawings is remarkable for its breadth, depth, and individual masterpieces. In the second Behind the Scenes podcast produced on the occasion of the exhibition Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500–1800, Grasselli talks to host Barbara Tempchin about the Gallery’s exceptionally rich collection of 18th-century drawings by the major artists—Boucher, Fragonard, Greuze, and Watteau, among many others—each represented by several works of outstanding quality.
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Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings at the National Gallery of Art: Part 1, The 16th and 17th Centuries
Published: 2009-09-08 09:00:00September 2009, Behind the Scenes - Margaret Morgan Grasselli, curator, old master drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington. The National Gallery of Art’s collection of French old master drawings is remarkable for its breadth, depth, and individual masterpieces. In the first podcast produced on the occasion of the exhibition Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500–1800, Grasselli talks to host Barbara Tempchin about delicate, rare works from the 16th century and extraordinary images of French classicism from the 17th century.
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Garden Café España y las Tradiciones Culinarias Españolas
Published: 2009-09-01 09:00:00September 2009, Behind the Scenes - Alvaro Soler del Campo, Director de la Real Armería en Madrid y Conservador jefe, Patrimonio Nacional y el Chef José Andrés, propietario del Jaleo y THINKfoodGROUP. Inspirado por dos exposiciones en la Galería, Luis Meléndez: Maestro de los Bodegones y el Arte del Poder, Armadura Real y Retratos de la España Imperial, el galardonado chef José Andrés, creó un menu muy especial de platos españoles para el Garden Café España. En este podcast producido para inaugurar el Garden Café España, Alvaro Soler y el Chef Andrés discuten los pasados cinco siglos de tradiciones culinarias españolas que van desde el libro único de recetas del cocinero del rey Felipe II, a la variedad de deliciosos manjares en las pinturas de Luis Meléndez, que todavía gozamos hoy en dia.
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Judith Leyster, 1609–1660: Part 4, Music in the Paintings of Judith Leyster
Published: 2009-08-25 09:00:00August 2009, Behind the Scenes - Arthur K. Wheelock Jr., curator, northern baroque paintings, National Gallery of Art, Washington; Kenneth Slowik, artistic director, Smithsonian Chamber Music Society, and curator of musical instruments, Smithsonian Institution. Dutch artist Judith Leyster's 400th birthday is celebrated at the Gallery with an exhibition of 10 of her most engaging paintings, joined by some 20 paintings, works on paper, and musical instruments of the period. In the fourth podcast produced on the occasion of the exhibition, Wheelock talks to Ken Slowik about Leyster’s love of music, the instruments she depicted, and various musical compositions of the age.
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Garden Café España and the Culinary Traditions of Spain
Published: 2009-08-18 09:00:00August 2009, Behind the Scenes - Alvaro Soler del Campo, director, Royal Armory Madrid, and chief curator, Patrimonio Nacional; José Andrés, chef and owner, Jaleo and THINKfoodGROUP. Inspired by two Gallery exhibitions—Luis Meléndez: Master of the Spanish Still Life and The Art of Power: Royal Armor and Portraits from Imperial Spain—renowned chef José Andrés created a special menu of signature Spanish dishes for the National Gallery's Garden Café. In this podcast, produced to celebrate the Garden Café España, Soler and Andrés discuss the past five centuries of Spanish culinary traditions, ranging from a rare book of recipes by the cook to King Philip II, still enjoyed today, to luscious food items in the paintings of Meléndez.
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