Power and Pathos

This film was produced in conjunction with the exhibition Drawing in Silver and Gold: Leonardo to Jasper Johns. Used by artists since the Middle Ages, metalpoint in its simplest form involves inserting gold or silver wire into a stylus...

Narrated by Ethan Hawke, this film was made in conjunction with the exhibition George Bellows. Bellows arrived in New York City in 1904 and depicted an America on the move.

Narrated by Ethan Hawke, this film was made in conjunction with the exhibition George Bellows. Bellows arrived in New York City in 1904 and depicted an America on the move.

This documentary, narrated by Ed Harris, was produced by the National Gallery of Art in conjunction with the exhibition Joan Miró: The Ladder of Escape. Joan Miró was passionately committed to his native Catalonia and its struggle for...

Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes, narrated by Tilda Swinton (2013, 60 min.) Narrated by Tilda Swinton, this film was made in conjunction with the exhibition Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes, 1909–1929: When Art Danced with Music. The...

This excerpt is from a new documentary chronicling the rise of one of the greatest landscape painters of all time, Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851), who rendered the subtle effects of light and atmosphere in revolutionary ways....

Narrated by Sir Derek Jacobi and produced by the National Gallery, this excerpt is from a new documentary film that examines the explosion of artistic activity around the Bay of Naples beginning in the first century BC.

Five Byzantine Churches

Narrated by Willem Dafoe and with Alfred Molina as the voice of Paul Gauguin, this film was made in conjunction with the exhibition Gauguin: Maker of Myth. Gauguin (1848–1903) abandoned impressionism to create an art driven less by...

Narrated by Willem Dafoe and with Alfred Molina as the voice of Paul Gauguin, this film was made in conjunction with the exhibition Gauguin: Maker of Myth. Gauguin (1848–1903) abandoned impressionism to create an art driven less by...

Narrated by Willem Dafoe and with Alfred Molina as the voice of Paul Gauguin, this film was made in conjunction with the exhibition Gauguin: Maker of Myth. Gauguin (1848–1903) abandoned impressionism to create an art driven less by...

Narrated by Willem Dafoe and with Alfred Molina as the voice of Paul Gauguin, this film was made in conjunction with the exhibition Gauguin: Maker of Myth. Gauguin (1848–1903) abandoned impressionism to create an art driven less by...

Lead course instructor Julie Carmean introduces Unit 1 of the course and outlines its goals. Participants will build a basic understanding of how to strengthen critical thinking using Artful Thinking Routines with works of art, develop a...

This video introduces the National Gallery of Art's first online course, Teaching Critical Thinking through Art with the National Gallery of Art, available on the edX platform. Based on the museum's popular Art Around the Corner...

Oliver Lee Jackson (b. 1935) pursues an abstract art always rooted in the human figure. Interviewed in his Oakland, California, studio in December 2018, Jackson speaks on a range of subjects, including his working process, materials, and...

In this lesson demonstration video, National Gallery museum educator Elizabeth Diament leads fourth and fifth grade students from Maury Elementary School, Washington DC, in an observing and describing routine called Looking:...

Narrated by Isabella Rossellini and produced by the National Gallery of Art, this film traces the career of Giuseppe Arcimboldo, an artist whose work thrilled and delighted the Habsburg courts of the later 16th century. Arcimboldo was...

Three DC-area visual art teachers—Lauren Bomba, Terry Thomas and Annette Zamula—talk about how using Artful Thinking in their art classrooms develops students’ looking, reasoning, curiosity, and creativity, and enriches student art...

In this lesson demonstration video at the National Gallery of Art, Grace Bogosian, a second-grade teacher at Sacred Heart School in Washington, DC, uses the Looking: 5 x 2 routine with her students to build an inventory of their...

Former classroom teacher and current gallery teacher Tondra Odom shares how, after using Artful Artful Thinking routines with artworks, she used the routines to differentiate reading instruction for her fifth grade students reading both...

In this lesson demonstration video filmed at the National Gallery of Art, museum educator Meghan Lally Keaton turns Creative Questions into a game using Sam Gilliam's Relative with a fifth grade class from Beers Elementary School,...

In this welcome video, lead course instructor Julie Carmean introduces the National Gallery of Art’s first online Course: Teaching Critical Thinking through Art. This one-of-a-kind course uses the Gallery’s deep experience with Artful...