Friday, October 26th
Lunchtime - Chamber Music
Friday Morning Music Club: Friday Chamber Music Concert
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Presented by Friday Morning Music Club
Click event link above for program details.
Calvary Baptist Church
Metro: Gallery Pl - Chinatown
Saturday, October 27th
Afternoon - Genealogy Clinic
“Help! I’m Stuck” Genealogy Clinic
12:00pm - 4:00pm
Not sure where to begin? An archivist will be available to answer your questions. Sign up for a 20-minute appointment at the Microfilm Research desk on Saturday.Metro: Archives - Navy Memorial
Afternoon - Live Music + Silent Film
Ciné-Concert: The Patsy
2:00pm
Ben Model, piano. Film: The Patsy (King Vidor, 1928, 35 mm, 78 minutes), a Library of Congress restoration.
National Gallery of Art
East Building Concourse, Auditorium
Afternoon - Special Symposium on Tatooing
Symposium: Unified Elements of Tattooing
2:00pm
Join Paul Roe of British Ink on H Street for a symposium on the art of the tattoo – from ancient Egypt to the present day -- in the music room of the mansion. It's the perfect companion to Strathmore's Skin exhibit, on view through November 3rd.
Strathmore
Metro: Grosvenor
Late Afternoon - Film Screening + Discussion
Ernie Kovacs: Video Art for the Intimate Vacuum
4:00pm
Bruce Bennett, David Bianculli, Ben Model in person
(Total running time approximately 120 minutes)
"Intimate vacuum" was comedian Ernie Kovacs' tongue-in-cheek definition of television, the medium he broadened in the 1950s with his absurdist sight gags and pioneering video effects, novel experiments in network TV's early years. A discussion with three Kovacs historians--Bruce Bennett, David Bianculli, and Ben Model--follows the screening.
National Gallery of Art
East Building Concourse, Auditorium
Metro: Judiciary Sq, closest to the East Building
Lunchtime - Art Lecture
Diamonstein-Spielvogel Lecture Series: Inside Out
12:00pm
The Diamonstein-Spielvogel Lecture Series provides a forum for distinguished artists to discuss the genesis and evolution of their work in their own words. Joel Shapiro, artist.
National Gallery of Art
East Building Concourse, Auditorium
Metro: Judiciary Sq, closest to the East Building
Afternoon - Lecture on Furniture Design
Triumphs in Craftsmanship: Masterpieces of American Furniture from the Kaufman Collection, 1700–- 18302:00pm
Talk with Wendy Cooper, Lois D. and Henry S. McNeil Senior Curator of Furniture, Winterthur Museum, University of Delaware.
National Gallery of Art
East Building Concourse, Auditorium
Metro: Judiciary Sq, closest to the East Building
Afternoon - Literary Reading - in MD
Prose Reading
2:00pm
Sara Taber reads from Born Under an Assumed Name: Memoir of a Cold War Spy's Daughter along with readings from novelists Andrew Dayton and Elahe Dayton, co-authors of The House That War Minister Built. Followed by a reception and signing.
The Writer's Center
Metro: Bethesda
Late Afternoon - Film Screening
Film Series: Shostakovich and the Cinema: Five Days, Five NightsNorth American premiere; Roy Guenther, Tony Palmer, Peter Rollberg, and Solomon Volkov, discussants. The first ever GDR-Soviet coproduction, Five Days, Five Nights is a rare fictional work about the wartime looting of art. This screening represents the first time the film has been subtitled in English. Shostakovich composed the score using parts of his String Quartet no. 8. (Fuünf Tage, Fuünf Nächte, Lew Arnstam, 1960, 35 mm, German and Russian with subtitles, 100 minutes).
National Gallery of Art
East Building Concourse, Auditorium
Metro: Judiciary Sq, closest to the East Building
Tanya Vegvari Plescia, pianist
6:30pm
Music by Hewitt, Mozart, and Reinagle. Presented in honor of Masterpieces of American Furniture from the Kaufman Collection, 1700–1830.
National Gallery of Art
West Building Main Floor, West Garden Court
Metro: Archives - Navy Memorial, closest to the West Building
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