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NGAkids CD ROMs Eight new NGAkids CD-ROMs are available through the Gallery's LEARNING RESOURCES portal. If you are having compatibility issues or if you prefer using our art activities offline, we invite you to register and borrow these free CDs. The set includes some of our most popular interactive programs, including Brushster, Dutch House, Faces and Places, Jungle, Photo Op, Sea-Saws, and Still Life. To install all of them at once, order the NGAkids Art Zone "combo" disc. What's Happening? Download the calendar (PDF, 267k) or visit the Family Activities page on our Web site for more information about upcoming programs. Parents and teachers may wish to sign up for the mailing list or consult the Gallery's online Calendar of Events. For up-to-date information on the current month’s films, please call the Children’s Film Program information line at (202) 789-3030 or read this list of scheduled Children's Film. Here is an up-to-date list of Current Exhibitions. Searching for something?

New York Guggenheim Go New York On View Now On View Now Special Exhibitions Alberto Burri: The Trauma of Painting October 9, 2015–January 6, 2016 Photo-Poetics: An Anthology November 20, 2015–March 23, 2016 A Long-Awaited Tribute: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Usonian House and Pavilion July 27, 2012–Ongoing Collection on View Kandinsky Gallery July 1, 2015–Spring 2016 Thannhauser Collection Ongoing Online Åzone Futures Market Global Partners BMW AG Lavazza UBS News More news Events Second Sunday Family Tour: All Around the WorldSunday, January 10, 10:30 am–noon Families with children ages 5 and up are invited to view works of art inspired by different places around the world. Allegrini Wine and Small Bites at The WrightWednesday, January 6, 5–8 pm Enjoy an evening of wine and small bites at the James Beard Award–winning The Wright restaurant. More events Stay Connected Plan Your Visit Solomon R. Hours & Ticketing Join Enjoy priority access, private exhibition views, free admission, and more. Guggenheim Blogs loading

Saint Louis Art Museum: Education - Families Learning Resources These online resources provide information and activities about the collection. Family Guides to print out prior to your visit. A Family Guide to Arms and Armor A Family Guide to Egyptian Mummies 2012-2013 ZMD Family Guide Family Sundays Drop in every Sunday afternoon anytime between 1:00 and 4:00 pm for hands-on art activities and a lively 30-minute family tour through the galleries. Learn more about family sundays. Family Sundays are sponsored by Wells Fargo Advisors. Click here for Youth Classes

Kiki Smith, ‘Sojourn’ at the Brooklyn Museum « 243 Conklin Women & Gender Messenger III, 2007 Currently on exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum in the Sackler Center for Feminist Art is an installation by German-born (but New Jersey raised), feminist artist Kiki Smith entitled Sojourn. Ms. Silver Bird, 2006 The textures and translucence of the delicate pieces that Ms. There is no direct sequencing of the women, yet the pieces move together in rhythm, echoing and reflecting details, colors, and images that draw the audience from one piece to another. Singer, 2008 The atmosphere created by Ms. “In Sojourn, Smith, who is known for a psychologically acute, non-narrative approach to constructing installations, begins from the position of the adult female artist and cycles through a series of experiences and artistic genres that venture far beyond the autobiographical. Visitation of Bird I On display through September 2010 and worth the journey to Brooklyn. Photographs and excerpts from the Brooklyn Museum and the New York Times. Like this: Like Loading...

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The Louvre El Museo del Barrio New York Brave "Change your fate." —Tagline Brave is Pixar Animation Studios' thirteenth animated feature film. The film is written by Brenda Chapman[3] and directed by both Chapman and Mark Andrews[4]. It is produced by Katherine Sarafian. The score is composed by Patrick Doyle.[5] The film was released on June 22, 2012.[6] Plot The storyline begins in the Scottish kingdom of DunBroch, with King Fergus presenting his young daughter, Merida, with a bow and arrow for her birthday, to the discomfort of Merida's mother, Queen Elinor. Years later, Elinor, who has since given birth to identical triplet boys, attempts to teach Merida in the ways of the court. Soon, the lords Macintosh, MacGuffin, and Dingwall arrive to compete for the Highlands Games and present their first-born sons in a competition for Merida's hand. Fleeing to the forest in tears, Merida encounters a trail of Will O' the Wisps that lead her to an elderly witch's hut. Voice Cast Production Rating Reception Attached Short Film Potential Sequel

the largest gallery in the world Norton Museum of Art Home Page Edward Hopper: The Watercolors National Museum of American Art Washington, D.C. Edward Hopper: The Watercolors October 22, 1999­January 3, 2000 The first major exhibition in forty years of the watercolors of Edward Hopper (1882­1967) will premiere at the Smithsonian's American Art Museum on October 22, 1999. The product of several years' research by Virginia M. American Art) and Margaret Lynne Ausfeld (curator at the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts), Edward Hopper: The Watercolors brings together rarely seen masterworks from fifteen private lenders and eighteen museums. The watercolors present an approach very different from that of Hopper's oils and their carefully composed urban scenes heavy with alienation and rigid geometry. "We are delighted to present these wonderful watercolors by one of America's most revered artists," said Elizabeth Broun, director of the Museum of American Art. Hopper who was moved by the thematic possibilities of simple houses and expansive skies." New York gallery sold. Web-Site Feature

Honolulu Museum of Art » Come Be Inspired The National Portrait Gallery Edward Hopper - paintings, biography, quotes of Edward Hopper Guggenheim International Exhibitions Sopheap Pich, Morning Glory, 2011. Rattan, bamboo, wire, plywood, and steel, 533.4 × 261.6 × 188 cm. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Guggenheim UBS MAP Purchase Fund 2013.3 © Sopheap Pich. Installation view: Morning Glory, Tyler Rollins Fine Art, New York, November 3–December 23, 2011 No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia

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