PAST: Free Arts & Culture Events this Weekend! From CultureCapital.com! Gallery Talks, Films, Concerts and More! SAT, Jan 21st - SUN, Jan 22nd

Here are some more great free arts and culture events happening today, thanks to CultureCapital.com. Please click through for complete details about the event and location details!

Saturday, January 21st

Mel Bochner, Unnameable, 2003,
Collection of the Artist
© Mel Bochner 2011  

Gallery Talk

In the Tower: Mel Bochner

12:00pm - 12:45pm
Special exhibition gallery talk given by Sally Shelburne, staff lecturer, National Gallery of Art.

National Gallery of Art

East Building Ground Level, Information Desk

4th & Constitution Ave, NW
Metro: Judiciary Square - closest to the East Building

Film Screening

Texts of Light: Four Films toward Part V of Secret History of the Dividing Line, a True Account in Nine Parts as part of the David Gatten series

2:30pm - Parts I-IV 4:30pm Part V
David Gatten in person at this one! This program includes a bunch of films, see link and NGA Film Series page for details. 

National Gallery of Art

East Building Concourse, Auditorium

4th & Constitution Ave, NW
Metro: Judiciary Square - closest to the East Building

Sunday, January 22nd

Gallery Talk

Fate of the Figure in Modern Art

12:00pm - 1:00pm
Talk with Sally Shelburne, staff lecturer, National Gallery of Art

National Gallery of Art

East Building Ground Level, Information Desk

4th & Constitution Ave, NW
Metro: Judiciary Square - closest to the East Building

Lecture and Book Signing 

About Four Honest Outlaws

2:00pm

Lecture given by Michael Fried, J. R. Herbert Boone Professor of Humanities and the History of Art, Johns Hopkins University. Book signing to follow. 

National Gallery of Art

East Building Concourse, Auditorium

4th & Constitution Ave, NW
Metro: Judiciary Square - closest to the East Building

Jazz Workshop
National Jazz Workshop
3:00pm
The 2012 National Jazz Workshop Winter Invitation Jazz Ensemble represents young musicians from the East Coast that attended the third annual National Jazz Workshop. They'll be performing standard and progressive big band and debut a commission sponsored by the Conservatory from Alan Baylock.

Artisphere 

1101 Wilson Blvd - Arlington, VA
Metro: Rosslyn

Choral Concert
Friday Morning Music Club performs a Choral Concert in Bethesda, MD
4:00pm
FMMC Chorale performs Brahms and Mendelssohn, conducted by Webster Alexander Rogers.

Bradley Hills Presbyterian Church
6601 Bradley Boulevard - Bethesda, MD (map from metro)

Metro: Looks like it's best reached by car,  there may be a bus from Bethesda, see metro for access. 

Film Screening

Silent Mountains, Singing Oceans, and Slivers of Time

4:30pm
David Gatten in person. The final program in the film series features pairs of films from three other ongoing "non-secret history" series. Read more here!

National Gallery of Art

East Building Concourse, Auditorium

4th & Constitution Ave, NW
Metro: Judiciary Square - closest to the East Building

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