LEOPOLD MUSEUM
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Honoring the World War One Centennial
World Art History Certificate elective: Earn 1 credit
The Arts and WWI
A Cinematic Introduction
to the City’s Architecture
Roman Holiday
Creation, Destruction, and
Revolution
With Special
“Guest Stars”
Audrey Hepburn
and Gregory
Peck
The awesome power of war to unleash death
and destruction has often ironically led to remarkable creative breakthroughs from artists, poets, and composers. In the
case of World War I, some of the most fascinating innovations in visual arts
came just prior to its outbreak—from the cubism of Picasso and Braque to
the abstraction of Kandinsky. As artists and writers were drafted or volunteered for service, they brought those avant-garde outlooks with them.
Many of them lost their lives, or returned with lifelong traumas. In the
aftermath of the conflict, even those who were spared battlefield experience
became deeply disillusioned, creating works that challenged traditional ideals
about art and its ability to provide meaning in a world forever changed. The
culmination of this cycle of destruction and creation, the Russian Revolution
of 1917, led to some of the boldest artistic experiments of the 20th century.
Join art historian Aneta Georgievska-Shine in an exploration of the artistic
legacy of the Great War.
9:30 a.m. Avant-Garde Art and the
Romance of Disaster
11 a.m. Witnesses and MemoryKeepers
IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM
Self-Portrait with Physalis,
1912, by Egon Schiele
12:15 p.m. Lunch (participants provide
their own)
1:15 p.m. Sifting Through the Shards
of Culture: Dada
2:45 p.m. The Russian Revolution
and the Great Artistic Utopia
Sat., June 3, 9:30 a.m.–4 p.m.; Ripley
Center; CODE 1H0-246; Members $90;
Nonmembers $140
Ready to Start. Self-Portrait, 1917,
by William Orpen
Few Hollywood
movies are more
beloved than
Roman Holiday,
William Wyler’s
1953 romantic
comedy that was
filmed entirely
Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck in the
on location in
1953 film Roman Holiday
Rome. In an
offbeat, entertaining, and in-depth overview of the
Eternal City’s architecture, independent scholar and
Rome expert George Sullivan integrates slides with
extensive clips from the movie. Sullivan follows the
whirlwind cinematic adventures of Audrey Hepburn
(spirited young princess on the lam) and costar Gregory
Peck (as an American newsman) around the city, stopping the film at each famous site to provide architectural
commentary. The Colosseum, the Pantheon, the Roman
Forum, the Spanish Steps, the Trevi Fountain, and the
Castel Sant’ Angelo—Roman Holiday visits them all, and
more. What better company could you possibly want
than Hepburn and Peck as you spend a day exploring
the architecture of one of the world’s greatest cities?
Sat., June 10, 9:30 a.m.–4:15 p.m.; Ripley Center; CODE
1M2-904; Members $90; Nonmembers $140
WINTERTHUR
The 1920s: Daring To Be Modern
Painting conservation lab
Henry Francis du Pont began collecting American antiques, art, and architecture in the 1920s and
transformed his family’s 19th-century estate into a world-renowned museum that opened to the
public in 1951. Decorative arts specialist Erin Kuykendall leads an in-depth exploration of
Winterthur’s exceptional collection of early American decorative arts.
In addition to a comprehensive tour of the house, the group also visits Winterthur’s conservation
and scientific labs for a close-up look at ongoing research. Get an introduction to the exhibition
Treasures on Trial: The Art and Science of Detecting Fakes, then
view its diverse examples of fake or forged objects and learn how
Winterthur’s art and antiques specialists used scientific analysis
and stylistic clues to expose the work of clever fraudsters.
Enjoy lunch in the museum’s Garden Café, which offers
seasonal items inspired by the museum’s collections and exhibitions. The afternoon includes free time to visit the gardens.
Wed., June 14, 8 a.m.–7:30 p.m.; bus departs from the Mayflower Hotel, Connecticut
Ave. and DeSales St., NW, with a pickup stop at the DoubleTree by Hilton Laurel, 15101
Sweitzer Lane, Laurel, Maryland, at about 8:40 a.m.; tour involves considerable walking,
standing and some stairs; lunch in the Garden Café; free time to view the estate’s
landscaped gardens in the afternoon; CODE 1ND-033; Members $175; Nonmembers $220
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WINTERTHUR
A Day at Winterthur
World Art History Certificate elective: Earn 1 credit
Discovering Glass in Philadelphia
See Philadelphia in a new light as museum education consultant Sheila
Pinsker opens doors to unsuspected opportunities to view glass in a wide
variety of places and forms. She guides participants to four special sites: a
museum, a spectacular Tiffany-glass mosaic mural, a university glass studio,
and a unique exhibit.
Begin the day at the National Liberty Museum, where a collection of
more than 179 contemporary works connect glass art to the theme of
freedom. Meegan Coll, the
museum’s director of glass
art, leads a tour, a highlight
of which is the 21-foot glass
sculpture Flame of Liberty by Glass by Lino Tagliapietra
Dale Chihuly.
After lunch, visit the Curtis Center to view the spectacular Dream Garden, a 15-by-49foot mosaic of more than 100,000 pieces of favrile glass designed by the studios of Louis
Comfort Tiffany. At the Tyler School of Art of Temple University, program head and glass
artist Sharyn O’Mara leads a tour of the state-of-the-art Irvin Borowsky Studios and a hotglass blowing demonstration.
At the Perelman Building of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, curator Elisabeth Agro
leads a tour of the exhibition Lino Tagliapietra: Painting in Glass, highlighting five vibrant
A section of Tiffany’s Dream Garden
works from the Venetian-born artist’s panel series.
TOUR
Fri., July 14, 7 a.m.–8:30 p.m.; bus departs from the Mayflower Hotel (Connecticut Ave. and DeSales St., NW), with a pickup
stop at I-495, Exit 27 at approximately 7:25 a.m.; participants must be age 18 or over; closed-toe shoes required at
Borowsky Studios where safety glasses are provided; lunch at City Tavern (entrance includes steps); return trip includes a
stop to purchase a meal; CODE 1ND-038; Members $170; Nonmembers $215
World Art History Certificate elective: Earn 1 credit
Cultural Heritage Sites of India
From India’s elaborately decorated Ajanta Caves to the splendor of the
Taj Mahal, UNESCO’s list of World Heritage Sites offers a spectacular
window into South Asia’s past.
Art historian and educator Robert DeCaroli highlights the subcontinent’s abundant historically and culturally significant destinations.
Learn about India’s rock-cut Buddhist cave monuments; temple caves,
and beach-front Hindu caves and sanctuary temples. Discover sites
inspired by India’s rich religious traditions, from Buddhist sites at
Bodhgaya to Hindu
temples at Khajuraho
and Konarak and the
grand minaret of the
Qutb Minar. Glimpse
sites of religious and
political power, including
Taj Mahal in Agra, India
Mughal splendors in
Agra, the palace-forts of Rajasthan; and the great train stations of the British Raj.
9:30 a.m. Rock-cut Wonders
11 a.m. Sacred Sites (Part 1)
12:30 p.m. Lunch (participants provide their own)
1:30 p.m. Sacred Sites (Part 2)
2:45 p.m. Seats of Power
Carving in the Ellora caves, India
Sat., July 22, 9:30 a.m.—4 p.m.; Ripley Center; CODE 1H0-249; Members $90;
Nonmembers $140
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Frank Lloyd Wright at 150
Reflections on an Extraordinary Life and Career
When he died in 1959 at age 92, Frank Lloyd Wright was the best-known architect in the country and one of
the most famous in the world. He was outspoken, dogmatic, and controversial, a man whose work, while often
praised or derided, was never ignored and always newsworthy.
Wright’s life encompassed acclaim and triumph as well as scandal
and tragedy. He lived and worked through a period of tumultuous
change as the United States was transformed by scientific and engineering developments and the Great Depression and two World
Wars. Wright was a pioneer in incorporating new materials, new approaches, and new uses for existing materials in his projects (not
Frank Lloyd Wright, 1954
always with the expected or desired results).
Of the more than 1,100 projects undertaken during Wright’s career of more than 60 years, some
532 were built. His work has nurtured civic pride and historic preservation, stimulated tourism,
and become an educational tool. Bill Keene, a popular Smithsonian study tour leader and lecturer
in architecture and urban studies, discusses Wright’s work, design principles and projects, and his
view of architecture as an essential element of American democracy.
9:30 a.m. How Wright Became Wright
11 a.m. Wright’s Dream: Quality Housing for a Broader Audience
12:15 p.m. Lunch (participants provide their own)
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater, designed in 1935 and completed in 1937
1:30 p.m. Anti-Urbanism and Urban Planning
3 p.m. Saving What’s Left
Sat., July 15, 9:30 a.m.—4:15 p.m.; Ripley Center; CODE 1M2-912; Members $90; Nonmembers $140
World Art History Certificate elective: Earn ½ credit
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Urban Vision
New York City
Mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of Frank Lloyd Wright
with a unique overnight visit to New York City. Get insights into
his achievements and creative influences as you explore a major
exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art, experience a tour of the
Guggenheim Museum, and view holdings contained in the Wright
archives at the Avery Architecture Library of Columbia University.
Urban historian Bill Keene leads the tour.
MoMA’s major Wright retrospective, Frank Lloyd Wright at 150:
Unpacking the Archive, is an ambitious exhibit of 450 works
spanning Wright’s career from the 1890s through to his death in
1959. It includes drawings, scrapbooks, models, furniture, textiles,
and films and videos of Wright and centers on objects from the
museum’s Frank Lloyd Wright archives and Columbia University’s
Avery Architectural Library, some of which are being seen by the
public for the first time.
A curator shares some of
the Avery Wright collection
of more than 67,000
drawings, photographs, and
papers housed in the library.
During a special tour in
the afternoon at the
Guggenheim Museum,
designed and built by
Wright between 1943 and
Sculpture garden of the Museum of
1959, examine how the
Modern Art
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architect redefined
how museums are
laid out, and created
new concepts of
how they relate to
both the art they
contain and to their
environment. Learn
Guggenheim Museum in New York City, designed
about the Guggenby Frank Lloyd Wright
heim’s history and
the challenges of bringing Wright’s complete vision to life in this
now-iconic space. Explore the Guggenheim’s extensive collections
and visit the museum store on your own.
Fri. Aug. 4, 8:30 a.m.—Sat., Aug. 5, 10 p.m.; bus departs
from; bus departs from the Mayflower Hotel,
Connecticut Ave. and DeSales St., NW, with a pickup
stop at the DoubleTree Hilton, 15101 Sweitzer Lane,
Laurel, Maryland, at approximately 9:10 a.m.; single-room
supplement $105; singles registering at the double-room rate are
paired if possible, but must pay the single-room supplement if
not; price includes lunch on Friday, and breakfast and lunch (at
the Guggenheim Museum’s art-filled restaurant The Wright, with
food by noted chef Rodolfo Contreras), on Saturday; detailed
information mailed to registrants about four weeks prior to
departure; purchase of trip insurance is recommended; CODE
1NN-URB; Members $555; Nonmembers $740
TOUR
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4–DAY
TOUR
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Buffalo
BIFF HENRICH/MARTIN HOUSE
BIFF HENRICH/MARTIN HOUSE
At the turn of the 20th century, Buffalo was
a prosperous and proud manufacturing
and industrial city, drawing national and world attention
as the site of the 1901 Pan-American Exposition. Its
wealth and prominence attracted major architects for
high-profile civic and private projects, including H. H.
Richardson, Louis Sullivan, and Daniel Burnham—as well
as upstarts like Frank Lloyd Wright, who looked to make
his name with his first major office building. The Larkin
Soap Company’s headquarters brought him that recognition, as well as the foundation for a strong and lasting
friendship with his most important patron, Darwin
Martin House, Buffalo, New York
Martin. Over the next decades, Wright always referred to
the Martin House as his opus, which along with his other Buffalo designs have
become vital parts of the city’s architectural and cultural history. To mark the
150th anniversary of the architect’s birth, Bill Keene, a lecturer in architecture
and urban studies, leads a tour highlighting significant works by Frank Lloyd
Wright and his contemporaries.
Day One View two Wright works as you travel to Buffalo. Beth Sholom
Congregation in Elkins Park, a suburb of Philadelphia, takes the form of a
shimmering glass pyramid that rises to more than 100 feet. The library of the
1914 Little House, a Minnesota lakeside residence that is one of Wright’s great
Prairie Houses, is now installed in the Allentown Art Museum.
Day Two A bus tour highlights the rich architectural heritage of Buffalo,
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including the Guaranty Building, a pioneering skyscraper by Louis Sullivan; the Martin House interior
Buffalo State Hospital, the largest commission of H.H. Richardson’s career, currently being developed as a hotel and history center;
the Ellicott Square Building by Daniel Burnham, the largest office building in the world when opened in 1893; and Wright’s exterior
of the William Heath House.
Day 3 At Graycliff, Darwin and Isabel Martin’s summer house overlooking
Lake Erie, restoration architect Patrick Mahoney details the history of the
light-filled house. At the Pierce Arrow Museum, view an extensive collection
of historic automobiles and tour the Wright-designed Tydol gas station. A
tour of the 1905 Martin House complex in Buffalo focuses on the work of a
$50 million rebuilding and restoration project.
Day 4 Take a guided tour of the art
deco-style Buffalo City Hall, which
affords stunning views from its 28th
floor observation deck; meet Steve
Oubre at Big Tree Furniture Works
Interior of Beth Sholom Synagogue in Elkins Park, Pennsylwho worked on restoring the Martin vania; designed by Frank Lloyd Wright; completed in 1959
House’s extensive wood trim and is
reconstructing furniture to Wright’s exacting standards.
Architectural detail on the Prudential
(Guaranty) Building, designed by Louis
Sullivan and Dankmar Adler, completed
1896
Fri., Sept. 8, 8 a.m.–Mon., Sept. 11, 9:30 p.m.; bus departs from the Mayflower
Hotel, Connecticut Ave. and DeSales St., N.W., with a pickup stop at I-495 exit 27
carpool lot at about 8:25 a.m.; cost includes bus transportation, lodging, all
activities, admissions and fees, gratuities, and meals (three breakfasts, four
lunches, and two dinners); expect a good deal of walking and standing; stay at Hampton
Inn Elmira/Horseheads the first night, then at the Hyatt Regency Buffalo remaining 2
nights; singles registering at the double-room rate are paired if possible, but must pay the
single-room supplement ($310) if not; detailed information mailed about four weeks prior
to departure; trip insurance is recommended; CODE 1NN-BUF; Members $1,299;
Nonmembers $1,730
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Andrew Wyeth
An Appreciation at 100
Andrew Newell Wyeth (1917–2009) was one of the most famous American artists of the
20th century. Known as a realist painter, his work focused primarily on the people,
animals, landscapes, and objects that filled the rural worlds of his hometown of Chadds
Ford, Pennsylvania, and his summer residence in Cushing, Maine.
Wyeth was home-schooled in art fundamentals by his father, the famed illustrator
N.C. Wyeth. To take a path different from his father’s, Wyeth chose to specialize in
tempera, not oil, painting. His temperas—including the iconic Christina’s World— are
marked by both an austerity and a melancholic quality. Wyeth considered himself an abstractionist, and his paintings reflect contemplation, simplification, and the elimination
of detail.
Art historian Bonita Billman highlights tonal drawings, watercolors, drybrush, and
tempera paintings of landscapes, still lifes, and the series of pictures of model Helga
Testorf—painted in secret—which comprise a major portion of Wyeth’s artistic production from 1971 to 1985.
Andrew Wyeth’s studio
Tues., July 18, 6:45 p.m.; Ripley Center; CODE 1M2-914; Members $30; Nonmembers $45
Brandywine River Museum
Galer Estate Vineyard and Winery
TOUR
The rural beauty of Pennsylvania’s Brandywine River Valley held a strong and significant link
for Andrew Wyeth, with connections to family and art that endured throughout his life. A
day-long visit to the area led by art historian Bonita Billman brings that personal landscape to
life, and offers an opportunity to view an exhibition of Wyeth’s works organized to honor the
centennial of his birth. The tour also
includes a winery visit.
Andrew Wyeth: In Retrospect at the
Brandywine River Museum of Art
brings together more than 150
paintings and works on paper. The
exhibition examines Wyeth’s unrelenting realism in the context of the
20th century, looking at how outside
forces shaped the artist’s choice of
subjects and his approach to portraying the people, places, and things
that reflect the internal musings of a
complicated man.
Travel offsite to see Andrew
Kuerner Farm, in Chadds Ford, was where Andrew Wyeth met
Wyeth’s own studio in Chadd’s Ford
Helga Testorf, the subject of more than 200 of his paintings
where he produced thousands of
works of art from 1940 to 2008, many of which were inspired by the farms and open spaces of
the valley and the Brandywine River.
The day ends at the scenic Galer Estate Vineyard and Winery in Kennett Square.
Winemaker Virginia Mitchell offers samples of her own art as she leads a tasting of some of
the winery’s products paired with local cheeses.
Sat., Aug. 12, 8:15 a.m.–7:30 p.m.; bus departs from the Holiday Inn Capitol, 550 C St., SW (corner of 6th and C Sts., SW),
with a pickup stop at I-495 exit 27 carpool lot at about 8:40 a.m.; lunch at the museum’s Millstone Café; CODE 1ND-041;
Members $160; Nonmembers $205
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BRANDYWINE RIVER MUSEUM
BRANDYWINE RIVER MUSEUM
Wyeth, Wine, and the Brandywine River Valley
World Art History Certificate elective: Earn 1 credit
Art, Power, and Pleasure in
Italy’s Renaissance Courts
DUCAL PALACE, MANTUA
Many a museumgoer has spent time appreciating a Renaissance
painting of beautiful Florence perhaps, or a glorious scene set in
ancient Rome. But in another Renaissance world in northern Italy,
mercenary soldiers and humanist courtiers populate an art created
for families who used every means necessary to assert their right
to rule. Art historian Lisa Passaglia Bauman explores Italy’s four
northern court cities—Ferrara, Urbino, Mantua, and Milan—
where artists as famous as Da Vinci and Mantegna, and patrons
as notorious as the fearsome Federico da Montefeltro and the
elegant Isabella d’Este lived and worked. Along the way, discover
how art played a role in constructing family identity and the
politics of style.
Ferrara was a cultural center renowned for its music and art,
as well as the discriminating tastes of its patrons, the d’Este family.
Giovanni Bellini painted Feast of the Gods for them.
THE MET
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African Art and
the Slave Trade
Between 1400 and 1900, nearly 20
million Africans were captured and
sold into slavery. They left the
continent in the holds of ships or on
the backs of camels, bound for destinations across Europe, Asia, and the
Americas. The modern world was built
on the backs of these individuals and
their arrival in the northern hemisphere contributed greatly to its growth
and development. In contrast, Africa’s
own development suffered because of
Power Figure (Nkisi N’Kondi: this forcible depopulation.
Mangaaka), 19th cen., Congo
Art historian Kevin Tervala introduces participants to the Atlantic and Indian Ocean slave trades,
with a focus on how African artists—and the societies that they
were a part of—reacted to the sudden and brutal disruption and
transformation of the world’s second-largest continent.
From the protective arts such as the Kongolese religious objects,
minkondi to the defensive architecture of Ganvie, a village built as a
safe haven in Benin’s Lake Nokoue, Tervala highlights how the slave
trade forever altered Africa’s cultural history.
Tues., Aug. 8, 6:45 p.m.; Ripley Center; CODE 1H0-256; Members
$30; Nonmembers $45
You love art.
The Court of Gonzaga, fresco, ca. 1465–1474, by Andrea Mantegna
Urbino’s Duke Federico da Montefeltro was nicknamed “The
Light of Italy” for his contributions to Renaissance culture. He and
his wife, Battista Sforza, are immortalized in a double portrait by
Piero della Francesca.
Mantua experienced a great age of cultural splendor under the
rule of Francesco Gonzaga and—when he was away fighting as a
mercenary–his wife, Isabella d’Este. Artists Andrea Mantegna,
Leonardo da Vinci, and others lived and worked there.
Similar to the Medici in Florence, the Sforza family ruled Milan
by force, ruse, and a well-developed program of propaganda,
provided by none other than Leonardo da Vinci.
9:30 a.m. Ferrara and the Invention of a Court Culture
11 a.m. Art and Ambition in Urbino
12:15 p.m. Lunch (participants provide their own.)
1:15 p.m. Mantua: A Renaissance Partnership
2:45 p.m. Milan: Art and Authority
Sat., Aug. 5, 9:30 a.m.–4 p.m.; Ripley Center; CODE 1H0-250;
Members $90; Nonmembers $140
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LUNCH
The Evolution of Architectural Styles
Ancient Temples to Modern Skyscrapers
Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral in France, completed
mid-13th century
Explore the traditions, styles, and masterpieces of European and American architecture during this in-depth 2-day program. Art historian Karin Alexis offers a chronological survey of Western architecture, introducing building-types from classical
temples and Gothic cathedrals to imperial palaces, early skyscrapers, and modern
experiments. She also provides insights into the inspired architects who created the
structures that continue to dazzle us today.
The program begins Friday evening, with a look at the classical orders, rules, and
principles of Greek and Roman architecture, followed by an exploration of the styles
and periods of eastern and western Christendom, Then, spend Saturday exploring the
visually rich period of the 15th and 16th centuries that emphasized classicism; the
monumental visions of the 17th and 18th centuries, including the foundations of the
Baroque style; the dynamic contrasts and eclectic styles of the 19th- and turn-of-the
20th centuries; and the multi-faceted 20th century, that moved through modern
classicism, art deco, Bauhaus, international style, brutalism, and post-modernism,
among other architectural styles
Fri., Aug. 18
6:15 p.m. Greece and Rome: Classicism and Foundations of Western Architecture
7:15 p.m. Architecture of the Middle Ages: The Sacred, the Spiritual, the Soaring
Sat., Aug. 19
9:30 a.m. The Elegance of the Renaissance: The Rebirth of Classicism
10:45 a.m. The Grandeur of the Baroque: The Splendor of Rome to the Imperial
Visions of Vienna
12 noon Lunch (A gourmet boxed lunch is provided)
Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain, designed by Frank
Gehry, 1997
1 p.m. Revivalism, Reform and Revolution: Beaux-Arts Classicism to Art
Nouveau
2:30 p.m. Visions for the Modern Age: Art Deco to the Cutting Edge
2 sessions; Fri. Aug. 18, 6:15 p.m.; Sat. Aug. 19, 9:30–4 p.m.; Ripley Center; CODE 1H0-255; Members $140; Nonmembers $210
View of the Mall from a Castle Tower by Richard Haas
This limited-edition print is numbered and signed by the artist and comes with a certificate of authenticity from Smithsonian
Associates. For more information on View of the Mall from a Castle Tower and other works available through the Art Collectors
Program, please call 202-633-8680, or visit our website at ArtCollectorsProgram.org.
Members $600 Nonmembers $800
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This work is currently on view at the GW University Museum
exhibition Foundations for A Nation: Architectural Images
from the Albert H. Small Washingtoniana Collection
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World Art History Certificate elective: Earn 1/2 credit
An Artful Weekend in New York
It’s the perfect late-summer treat for yourself: an art-filled weekend escape to Manhattan that offers
plenty of time to take in several of the most intriguing exhibits on view in three cultural powerhouses—and a night on the town to enjoy as you like.
Art historian Ursula Rehn Wolfman leads the visit, which highlights the work of three influential and distinctive artists. The
Museum of Modern Art’s retrospective Robert Rauschenberg:
Among Friends brings together more than 250 paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, and sounds and video
recordings to examine the artist’s collaborations with dancers,
musicians, writers, and other visual artists.
Calder: Hypermobility at the Whitney Museum of American Art Aluminum Leaves, Red Post, 1941,
by Alexander Calder
focuses on the extraordinary breadth of movement and sound in
the work of Alexander Calder. The exhibition brings together a constellation of key sculptures and
provides a rare opportunity to experience the works as the artist intended—in motion.
Dale Chihuly receives his first major garden exhibition in New York in more than 10 years, featuring
approximately 20 installations at the New York Botanical Garden. Its landmark landscape and
buildings become living canvases, showcasing Chihuly’s signature organic shapes in brilliant colors.
Participants stay in the historic Roosevelt Hotel, restored to its Jazz-Age glamour and with a
Sol de Citron, 2017, by Dale Chihuly
midtown Manhattan location that makes it an ideal base for Sunday evening on your own.
Sun., Aug. 27, 8:30 a.m.—Mon., Aug. 28, 10:30 p.m.; bus departs from the Mayflower Hotel, Connecticut Ave. and DeSales St.,
NW, with a pickup at the Exit 27 carpool lot, I-495 and I-95, at about 9:10 a.m.; price includes Sunday boxed lunch en route
and Monday breakfast and early 3-course supper; single-room supplement, $105; singles registering at double-room rate are
paired (on a nonsmoking basis) if possible, but must pay single-room supplement otherwise; information mailed about four
weeks prior to departure; purchase of trip insurance recommended; CODE 1NN-MWB; Members $560; Nonmembers $750
Overnight
TOUR
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CHRISSTORB
THE NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN
MoMA, the Whitney, and the New York Botanical Garden
COURTESY OF WHITNEY MUSEUM OF ART
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Contemporary Art
The Constancy of Change
Contemporary visual arts reflect today’s world—one that’s both liberating in its freedoms and disorienting in its uncertainty. Many artists have moved away from traditional approaches, producing
works of art that don’t fit into standard definitions—or have even abandoned the creation of
objects at all. Instead, they engage in art practices that are often motivated by social consciousness.
Boundaries separating high and low culture and between various artistic media and styles are
constantly challenged. How we critically approach and talk about—and even define—art also
continues to evolve.
Art historian Aneta Georgievska-Shine provides insights into understanding and navigating the
changing global art world by examining the trends and ideas that have shaped it in recent decades. Fallen Blossom: Explosion Project, 2009,
In the first session, she considers contemporary artists who have continued working in traditional
by Cai Guo-Qiang
media, including Anselm Kiefer, Richard Serra, Martin Puryer, and Jeff Koons. The following week,
Georgievska-Shine focuses on artists who use their practices as a platform for social engagement, including Barbara Kruger, Vic Muniz,
Wafaa Bilal, and the Guerilla Girls. The third week is about artists involved with practices that
embrace new media, performance, and installation art, including Christo and Jean-Claude, Bill
Viola, Pipilotti Rist, and Yayoi Kusama. The final session highlights artists from diverse cultural
backgrounds who have incorporated aspects of Western visual culture into their own artistic global
vision, including Ai Wei-Wei, Chiharu Shiota, El Anattsui, and Julie Mehretu.
SEPT 5 Painting and Sculpture After the “End of Art”
SEPT 12 Art and Social Change: Commentary, Critique, Action
SEPT 19 New Media, Immersive Environments, and Spectacle
SEPT 26 A Global Visual Culture
Cloud Gate by Anish Kapoor, constructed
2004–2006, Chicago
4 sessions; Tues., Sept. 5–26, 6:45–8:45 p.m.; Ripley Center; CODE 1H0-261; Members $90;
Nonmembers $140
More INFORMATION and TICKETS at SMITHSONIANASSOCIATES.ORG and 202-633-3030
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RIJKMUSEUM
Art + Design
World Art History Certificate elective: Earn 1 credit
RIJKMUSEUM
A Day at the Rijksmuseum,
Amsterdam
Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum opened its doors to the public in 1800 with about
200 artifacts on display. Today, the museum’s collection comprises nearly 8,000
works of art and objects spanning almost 800 years of Dutch history. Recently
reopened after years of renovation, the Rijksmuseum is one of the world’s
cultural treasures.
In this richly illustrated day-long program, art historian and Dutch art
scholar Aneta Georgievska-Shine presents an overview of the museum’s magnificent collection, focusing on some of its greatest masterpieces. Sessions
focus on the artists of the 15th and 16th centuries who paved the way for the
“golden age” of Dutch art, Rembrandt and other painters who specialized in
portraits; Johannes Vermeer and the “small masters” of scenes of daily life: and
unusual and accomplished
genre paintings, from landscapes to still lifes.
9:30 a.m. A Historical
Overview and the
Netherlandish Painters
The Milkmaid, ca. 1660, by Johannes Vermeer
11 a.m. A Museum within
a Museum: Rembrandt and his Peers
12:15 p.m. European-themed lunch
1:30 p.m. “Small Masters”: Vermeer and the Painting of Daily Life
With
LUNCH
Portrait of a Young Couple, ca. 1622, by Frans
Hals
3 p.m. A Wealth of Genres
Sun., Sept. 10, 9:30 a.m.–4:15 p.m.; Ripley Center; CODE 1M2-917;
Members $105; Nonmembers $155
World Art History Certificate elective: Earn ½ credit
THE BARNES FOUNDATION
The Barnes Foundation Philadelphia
Barnes is often considered the greatest post-impressionist and early-modern art collection in the world, with more than 3,000 masterpieces. Opened in 2012, and designed by New York architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, the Barnes’ downtown Philadelphia location
was designed to be a compliment to the world-famous Barnes art collection.
The Barnes museum in Philadelphia houses dazzling collections of French
modern and post-impressionist paintings that can be enjoyed with audio
guide supplements. Tour participants have the opportunity to view masterpieces by Renoir, Cezanne,
and Matisse, as well as
Picasso, Seurat, Rousseau,
Modigliani, Monet, Manet,
and Degas. Also see Greek,
Roman, and Egyptian antiquities, Chinese painting,
African sculpture, Southwestern retablos, Native
American art, and American
Exterior of the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia
decorative arts.
The trip to the Philadelphia area is enlivened by a lecture en route by the tour leader,
art historian Bonita Billman.
Inside the Barnes, Philadelphia
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SMITHSONIAN ASSOCIATES JUNE 2017
Sat., Sept. 30, 8 a.m.–7 p.m.; bus departs from the Holiday Inn Capitol, 550
C St., SW, with a pickup stop at the I-495 Exit 27 commuter parking lot at
about 8:25 a.m.; 3-course private lunch in the museum; CODE 1ND-045;
Members $170; Nonmembers $220 (This tour will be offered again, date TBD.)
Published ticket prices are subject to change, depending on availability.