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National Gallery of Art A place where everyone is welcome to explore and experience art, creativity, and our shared humanity. Mellon in 1937.
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About the Gallery:
Masterworks by the most renowned European and American artists, including the only painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the Americas and the largest mobile ever created by Alexander Calder, await visitors to the National Gallery of Art, one of the world's preeminent art museums. The Gallery’s collection of paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculpture, medals, and decorative arts traces the development of Western art from the Middle Ages to the present. Open to the public free of charge, the Gallery was created for the people of the United States of America by a joint resolution of Congress accepting the gift of Andrew W. The Gallery’s campus includes the original neoclassical West Building designed by John Russell Pope, which is linked underground to the modern East Building designed by I.M. Pei, and the verdant 6.1-acre Sculpture Garden. Temporary special exhibitions spanning the world and the history of art are presented frequently.

10/10/2026

Edouard Duval-Carrié creates seductive and fantastical art works inspired by Vodou spirits and the Haitian diaspora.

Take a look, then watch the full doc on our YouTube channel, produced in collaboration with Rava Films: https://bit.ly/3Umev6q

Using every artistic medium in existence, Duval-Carrié intertwines his local community of Miami’s Little Haiti with a broader tapestry and narrative of the “200 nations” that make up Haiti’s historical populations and breathtakingly rich artistic heritage.

10/09/2026

Artist Taylor Mazer carefully removes the masking from a completed drawing in ink of the imagined interior of Edward Hopper’s 1924 painting: “Haskell’s House.” Matching the architectural layout and time of day through carefully planned perspective drawing, Taylor recreated what he imagined the interior of the house would look like. “I’ve loved Edward Hopper’s work for as long as I can remember. Analyzing and recreating “Haskell’s House” felt almost like stepping into one of his paintings.”

🏡 Edward Hopper, “Haskell’s House,” 1924, watercolor over graphite on paperboard, 13 x 19 in., Gift of Herbert A. Goldstone, Artworks by Edward Hopper © 2026 Heirs of Josephine N. Hopper/Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

10/08/2026

How is this not cake?

Artist Heather Rios (Heather Rios) creates treats that look good enough to eat, entirely out of embroidery.

Her stitched picnic was inspired by the 16th-century watercolors of Joris Hoefnagel, which paired Renaissance artistry with close observation of the natural world.

🖼️ Joris Hoefnagel, “Plate 51: Grasshoppers and a Caterpillar with a Four O’Clock Flower,” 1575/1590s, watercolor and gold paint on parchment. Gift of Mrs. Lessing J. Rosenwald

10/03/2026

Coulter Fussell, a diner waitress turned artist, makes her kids’ Snapchat messages into art.

In a storefront studio on the main street of her small town of Water Valley, Mississippi, Fussell turns donated fabric, photographs from her father, and her kids’ videos of fireworks, lake jumps and pick-up truck hijinks into complex textile art. Her creations illuminate the optimism, humor and technique instilled in her by her mother's quilting practice. As Coulter says, ”I grew up in a household where what people would consider higher arts was on the same playing field as craft work.”

Watch the full doc on our YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/46X8zUo

Produced in collaboration with Rava Films

10/01/2026

Inspired by Hieronymus Bosch’s “Death and the Miser,” Gabby He just designed and handmade an outfit that embodies the painting’s themes of mortality, morality, and temptation. Each element of the outfit draws inspiration from a different part of the painting, reinterpreting the miser’s deathbed and the battle between angels and temptation in an unconventional, wearable form.

🖼 Hieronymus Bosch, “Death and the Miser,” 1485/1490, oil on panel, 36 x 12 in., Samuel H. Kress Collection
📍 West Building Main Floor, Gallery M41

In this painting, René Magritte does what he does best: he takes our familiar world, breaks it into pieces, and then rea...
09/30/2026

In this painting, René Magritte does what he does best: he takes our familiar world, breaks it into pieces, and then reassembles it…

As one of the leading figures of the surrealist movement in 1920s Paris, Magritte’s approach mirrors one of the group’s fundamental principles. The surrealist manifesto, a multi-page written declaration drawn up by André Breton in 1924, states their aim was to “liberate the mind by subverting rational thought and giving free rein to the unconscious.”

That’s why the figure and horse in this painting are somewhat familiar to us: Magritte ingeniously distorts what would be an ordinary scene by creating an optical illusion. He tricks your eye by combining separate elements into one complete image, transforming a horseback rider into a dreamlike vision. 😵‍💫💫

In doing this, Magritte not only takes us out of our world, but exposes how absurd life can sometimes be.
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🖼 René Magritte, “The Blank Signature,” 1965, oil on canvas, 32 x 25 in., Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

chat, it's your girl Ali L, official museum rizzler. just wanted to log on and drop a shoutout to all my art alphas for ...
09/29/2026

chat, it's your girl Ali L, official museum rizzler. just wanted to log on and drop a shoutout to all my art alphas for the tuff fanart you've been cooking l8ly

this illustration by Pamela Guest for Art in America has me utterly gagged (real rizzlers will recognize the maiolica plate from the OG lore drop btw)

anyway back to my daily grind (research and aura-farming in the galleries)

stay rizzling, enjoy the fall weather, and consider spending this weekend turbomogging in your local art museum

xoxo Ali L

09/21/2026

The shark in this painting just wanted some food…just like rats on the subway🚊🐀

Animator ALEXANDER BOSSERMAN was fascinated by the drama of John Singleton Copley’s 1778 painting “Watson and the Shark.” He couldn’t help but connect it to his own experiences riding the New York City subway, watching rats scrambling for food in the midst of the hectic environment.

“Using a technique called photogrammetry, which turns photos into 3D objects, I scoured subway stations across the city for objects and textures that could bring authenticity to my digital environment,” Bosserman says. “I recorded audio samples of train tracks and announcements, and even of my two pet rat’s struggled squeaks during their playfights.”

🖼️ John Singleton Copley, ”Watson and the Shark,” 1778, oil on canvas, 71 x 90 in., Ferdinand Lammot Belin Fund
📍West Building Main Floor, Gallery M60

09/18/2026

Chat, watch til the end for an unexpected surprise. The lore just expanded in ways no one could have predicted. I am unwell. What a day.

Your girl, Alison.

⭐️ Alison Luchs, Curator of Early European Sculpture and Deputy Head of Sculpture TIME

09/17/2026

A Leonardo drawing, pulled into the third dimension ✍️

Artist Topher Sipes transformed Leonardo da Vinci’s “Grotesque Head of an Old Woman” from a pen-and-ink drawing into a virtual sculpture, and then into a physical 3D print.

Drawn to the figure’s exaggerated personality, Topher began by tracing her proportions in virtual reality. Using drafting techniques, he pulled those lines into space, built them into solid forms, and refined the character from every angle.

A tiny horseweed seed head completes the transformation, nodding to the small flower tucked into the original drawing.

“My art practice began with drawing, and my first steps into three dimensions came through drafting characters from multiple angles for fabrication,” Topher says. “VR allowed me to bring those parts of my artistic journey together, using drawing as more than a starting point: a structure I could step inside, reshape, and make tangible.”

🖼 Leonardo da Vinci, “Grotesque Head of an Old Woman,” 1489/1490, pen and brown ink on laid paper; laid down, Washington, Gift of Dian Woodner

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