National Gallery of Art Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Lovers of books and aspiring young readers📖: Join us for a reading of “Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus” by Mo Willems tomorrow in our East Building Atrium at 10 a.m.✨ All ages are welcome to this bilingual gathering offered in English and Spanish👉🏽 https://t.co/fEL9jYFM0R https://t.co/ZE1YtC3cwM

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Models are also artists. Joanna Hiffernan is the iconic “woman in white” featured in many of James McNeill Whistler’s renowned paintings. Yet, many are unaware of her contributions to his work... https://t.co/z6JHR04Ucz

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Don’t miss your chance to immerse yourself in these galleries in “Vittore Carpaccio: Master Storyteller of Renaissance Venice;” currently on view in our West Building through this Sunday. 📍 Plan your visit 🔎👉🏽 https://t.co/4PNE9AfSmV

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A new show opens in our West Building on 4/9: “Going through Hell: The Divine Dante.”🔥 The show will explore the seminal influence of Dante Alighieri’s “Divine Comedy” connected to 20 works from our collection. #DanteDay Plan your visit, if you dare👉🏽 https://t.co/5ASsVw3jJY

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📷 Samuel Fosso, “Self-Portrait (as Liberated American Woman of the ’70s),” 1997, printed 2003, chromogenic print, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum purchase funded by Nina and Michael Zilkha, 2004.809. © Samuel Fosso, Courtesy Jean Marc Patras Galerie, Paris

National Gallery of Art

A new show opens in our West Building on 4/9: “Going through Hell: The Divine Dante.”🔥 The show will explore the seminal influence of Dante Alighieri’s “Divine Comedy” connected to 20 works from our collection. #DanteDay Plan your visit, if you dare👉🏽 https://t.co/5ASsVw3jJY

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While you may recognize this composition from the cover of Ottessa Moshfegh’s “My Year of Rest and Relaxation,” the fascinating history behind the painting may surprise you. ⬇️

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This will make you double take🧐. Unlike the women standing in front of the photo, Rashid Johnson’s work is not actually of twins but of one man, doubled. On view in “The Double: Identity and Difference in Art since 1900” through October 31. https://t.co/4dkZZuVdte

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🖼 Mark Rothko, "Woman with violin," 1933/1934, Watercolor, 18 x 11 in., Gift of The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc., 1986.56.559. © Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko

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One of these photographers was Anna Fox, who had a keen eye for social criticism in the workplace. This project by Fox is called “Work Stations” and it’s a commentary on the stress and alienation of London office work in the late 80s.