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National Gallery of Art
Release Date: Decemer 10, 2015
National Gallery of Art Celebrates Hellenistic Bronzes Exhibition with Array of Related Public Offerings from Contemporary Greek Films to a Greek-themed Café
Film still from Little ngland (Pantelis Voulgaris, 2013, DCP, sutitles, 132 minutes), to e shown at the National Galler of Art on aturda, Januar 16, at 2:30 p.m., as part of the "Athens Toda: New Greek Cinema" film series. Images courtes of Feelgood ntertainment.
Washington, DC—The National Galler of Art is pleased to present a variet of pulic programs, a specialt shop, and a Greek-themed uffet to celerate Power and Pathos: ronze culpture of the Hellenistic World. Programs include smposia, lectures and spoken-word performances, galler talks, a concert, and a long list of stellar Greek films. The Galler hops offer items ranging from exquisite jewelr in ronze to reproductions of ancient sculpture. The Garden Café will offer a Greek-themed uffet menu of traditional dishes.
All programs take place in the ast uilding Auditorium unless otherwise noted, and are free of charge. eating is availale on a first-come, first-seated asis.
Lectures Introduction to the xhiition—Power and Pathos: ronze culpture of the Hellenistic World Decemer 13 at 2:00 p.m. Jens M. Daehner and Kenneth . Lapatin, associate curators of antiquities, The J. Paul Gett Museum. A ook signing of the exhiition catalog Power and Pathos: ronze culpture of the Hellenistic World follows.
ronzes from the Aegean: The Lost Cargos and the Circumstances of Their Recover Januar 17 at 2:00 p.m. George Koutsouflakis, director, department of archaeological sites, monuments, and research, Hellenic phorate of Underwater Antiquities. This program is cosponsored the Washington, DC, ociet of the Archaeological Institute of America.
What Makes a tatue? Feruar 7 at 2:00 p.m. Carol Mattusch, Math Professor of Art Histor, George Mason Universit
The ronze culpture of Hellenistic Macedonia Feruar 21 at 2:00 p.m. Polxeni Adams-Veleni, archaeologist and director, Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki This program is coordinated with leftherios Ikonomou, ART etc. Intercultural Dialogues, erlin, with generous funding from the Goelet Corporation, New York.
From Olmpus to the treets of Constantinople: The zantine Retirement of the Ancient Gods March 3 at 3:30 p.m. West uilding Lecture Hall Anthon Kaldellis, professor of classics, Ohio tate Universit This program is coordinated with and supported Dumarton Oaks Research Lirar and Collection.
Zeus, Isis, and Dionsus in Dion at the Foothills of Mount Olmpus March 17 at 3:30 p.m. Dimitrios Pandermalis, president of the oard of directors, Acropolis Museum, and professor of archaeolog, Aristotle Universit of Thessaloniki This program is coordinated with leftherios Ikonomou, ART etc. Intercultural Dialogues, erlin, with generous funding from the Goelet Corporation, New York.
Panel Discussions The Afterlives of Alexander in the zantine World Feruar 11 at 3:30 p.m. West uilding Lecture Hall Panelists include Ioli Kalavrezou, Dumarton Oaks Professor of zantine Art Histor, department of histor of art and architecture, Harvard Universit; Dimitris Kastritsis, lecturer, chool of Histor, Universit of t. Andrews; and Jonathan hea, postdoctoral teaching fellow in zantine histor, Dumarton Oaks Research Lirar and Collection and George Washington Universit. Moderated Michael Maas, director of zantine studies 2015– 2016, Dumarton Oaks Research Lirar and Collection. This program is coordinated with and supported Dumarton Oaks Research Lirar and Collection.
A Priestess or a Goddess: The Prolem of Identit in ome Female Hellenistic culptures Feruar 18 at 3:30 p.m. West uilding Lecture Hall This program is coordinated with and supported the Center for Hellenic tudies, Harvard Universit.
A Poet or a God: The Iconograph of Certain earded Male ronzes Feruar 25 at 3:30 p.m. West uilding Lecture Hall This program is coordinated with and supported the Center for Hellenic tudies, Harvard Universit.
Performances with Discussion Performances of archaeological-musical tales will comine games, music, stortelling, and songs performed with an ancient reconstructed lre. Discussions will center on the cultural heritage of Greece in relation to each performance.
Kmothoi's Journe Feruar 24 at 3:30 p.m. West uilding Lecture Hall v Papadopoulou, archaeologist; Nikos Xanthoulis, assistant researcher, Academ of Athens, and tutor, Greek Open Universit. This program is coordinated with leftherios Ikonomou, ART etc. Intercultural Dialogues, erlin, with generous funding from the Goelet Corporation, New York.
Nikias and Meliti’s Dream Feruar 26 at 3:30 p.m. West uilding Lecture Hall v Papadopoulou, archaeologist; Nikos Xanthoulis, assistant researcher, Academ of Athens, and tutor, Greek Open Universit. This program is coordinated with leftherios Ikonomou, ART etc. Intercultural Dialogues, erlin, with generous funding from the Goelet Corporation, New York.
Homer’s Iliad and Odsse Feruar 27 at 1:00 p.m. v Papadopoulou, archaeologist; Nikos Xanthoulis, assistant researcher, Academ of Athens, and tutor, Greek Open Universit. This program is coordinated with leftherios Ikonomou, ART etc. Intercultural Dialogues, erlin, with generous funding from the Goelet Corporation, New York.
Pulic mposia Power and Pathos: ronze culpture of the Hellenistic World March 18 at 2:30 p.m. Illustrated lectures Gianfranco Adornato, professor of classical archaeolog, cuole Normale uperiore, Pisa; Andrew tewart, professor of ancient Mediterranean art and archaeolog and Nicholas C. Petris Professor of Greek tudies, Universit of California, erkele, and curator of Mediterranean archaeolog, Hearst Museum of Anthropolog
Power and Pathos: ronze culpture of the Hellenistic World March 19 at noon West uilding Lecture Hall Illustrated lectures Christopher A. Gregg, assistant professor of art histor, George Mason Universit; Despina Ignatiadou, head curator of the sculpture collection, National Archaeological Museum, Athens; Kenneth . Lapatin, associate curator of antiquities, The J. Paul Gett Museum; Richard Mason, lecturer on Aegean archaeolog and gpt, Universit of Marland, altimore Count; Carol Mattusch, Math Professor of Art Histor, George Mason Universit; David ider, professor of classics, New York Universit. mposium respondents include Jens M. Daehner, associate curator of antiquities, The J. Paul Gett Museum; and runilde ismondo Ridgwa, Rhs Carpenter Professor merita of Classical and Near astern Archaeolog, rn Mawr College. Moderated Faa Cause, head of academic programs, National Galler of Art.
Teacher Materials For teachers who wish to receive materials prior to visiting the exhiition, please contact H[email protected].
Concert Music from the Age of Mtholog National Galler of Art Vocal nsemle Januar 31 at 3:30 p.m. West uilding, West Garden Court
Galler Talks Regular pulic tours of Power and Pathos: ronze culpture of the Hellenistic World will e offered the adult programs department of the education division (50 mins.). Meet at the West uilding Rotunda. ric Denker: Januar 6–8, 12, 14, 19, 21 at 12:00, Januar 20, 22 at 2:00; David Gariff: Feruar 1, 3, 5, 12–18 at 1:00; Diane Arkin: Feruar 9–11, 22–25 at 2:00
Galler hops A specialt shop located at the exit of the exhiition includes an arra of richl detailed ronze and sautoir jewelr, an exquisite 24-karat-gold-plated Athena Crown, period music CDs, scholarl monographs, Greek cookook travel guides, children's activit kits, and reproductions of renowned ancient sculptures.
xhiition Catalog Pulished the J. Paul Gett Museum, the full illustrated scholarl exhiition catalog is the first comprehensive volume on Hellenistic ronze statuar. It includes groundreaking archaeological, art-historical, and scientific essas that offer new approaches to understanding ancient production of these remarkale works of art. The 368-page catalog is currentl availale. To order, please visit http://shop.nga.gov/; call (800) 697-9350 or (202) 842-6002; fax (202) 789-3047; or e-mail [email protected].
Garden Café Greek-Themed Menu A Greek-themed uffet ($20.75) incorporates a variet of traditional Greek dishes featuring fresh seasonal ingredients, from Psiti Feta Kotópoulo (raised chicken, feta cheese, red wine) to alata Revithi Ankinara (chickpeas, artichokes, toasted almonds). Kasseri, a sheep- and goat-milk cheese with a salt and sweet flavor and pungent aroma, and Manouri, a pure sheep-milk cheese with a cream texture, are availale. Mosaiko, a Greek chocolate-and-iscuit cookie roll with fresh whipped cream, adds a sweet treat to the end of a culinar journe.
Attractive recipe cards for selected dishes are availale to guests free of charge. Italian and panish white and red wines complement the menu. A variet of non-alcoholic everages is also offered.
The Garden Café is open Monda through aturda, 11:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., and unda, noon to 4:00 p.m. One of the most distinctive dining spots in the nation's capital, the Garden Café setting features a delightful 19th-centur French marle sculpture after Jacopo ansovino, acchus and a Faun, and a fountain with Herert Adams's delicate ronze Girl with Water Lilies (model 1928). The Garden Café is located in the West uilding near the entrance at 6th treet and Constitution Avenue NW. To make reservations for groups of eight or more, please contact the café manager at (202) 712- 7454. For more information aout the Galler and its restaurants, visit http://www.nga.gov/content/ngawe/visit/cafe.html.
Documentar Film A film produced the Galler in conjunction with the exhiition and made possile the HRH Foundation provides an overview of art of the Hellenistic period. Narrated actor Liev chreier, the film includes new footage of the ancient sites of Delphi, Corinth, and Olmpia, which once were crowded with ronze statues.
Audio Tour For the first time, the Galler is offering a free audio tour that visitors can download to their moile devices. Narrated arl A. Powell III, director, National Galler of Art, the tour includes commentar from exhiition curators Jens M. Daehner and Kenneth Lapatin, and ronze specialist Carol C. Mattusch of George Mason Universit.
Film Program Zora the Greek (restored print) Introduced Katherine Quinn, widow of Anthon Quinn Januar 10 at 4:00 p.m. for the pulic
Documentar eries Januar 5–March 17 West uilding Lecture Hall The documentar series is organized with AGON (Archaeological Film of the Mediterranean Area) and leftherios Ikonomou. It includes 12 films, produced in Greece and German, that deal with a range of cultural topics including the restoration work on the Acropolis monuments, Hellenistic-era musical instruments such as the “Hdraulis” (or hdraulic organ), Kouros sculptures, Lsippus (the legendar sculptor), the precious-metal trade routes during classical antiquit, the restoration work on the famous sculpture “The Praing o” cast ca. 300 .C., and the world’s first computer constructed in ancient Greece—the so-called “Antikthera Mechanism” retrieved in underwater archaeolog.
Contemporar Film eries Athens Toda: A New Greek Cinema Januar 9–Feruar 28 The cinema of Greece has een experiencing an artistic resurgence wa of a new generation of filmmakers who are enlivening the critical discourse and garnering attention at international festivals. As represented in the formal experiments of Yorgos Lanthimos and Athina Rachel Tsangari, or the performative aesthetics of films like ilent, this new wave has resulted in disarming and at times disquieting narratives. Traditional genres such as melodrama and lack comed have een enriched with fanciful and asurdist motifs. A sense of reinvention, if not a new film language, is palpale. With special thanks to James Demetro, New York Cit Greek Film Festival, Anthon Quinn Foundation, Hellenic American Chamer of Commerce, National Hellenic ociet, and the Hellenic American Cultural Foundation.
A Famil Affair Januar 9 at 3:30 p.m. The Xlouris nsemle, a multigenerational famil of musicians rooted in folkloric Cretan music, traces their lineage to the mountain village of Anogeia. A Famil Affair not onl follows their performances and trials during wearisome tours, it captures the passing of tradition from father to son to grandchildren in this famil that now lives mainl in Australia. “We don’t carr this tradition as a famil weight,” explains George Xlouris. “It’s part of our lives, of who we are. We need this tradition to live, like we need oxgen.” (Angeliki Aristomenopoulou, 2015, DCP, sutitles, 88 minutes)
Little ngland Januar 16 at 2:30 p.m. Women on the lush Ccladic island of Andros in the 1930s await the homecoming of their seafaring husands, fathers, sons, and rothers. Within this provincial societ, an intense and richl structured melodrama emerges around two sisters’ relationships with the same man. Inspired a popular novel Ioanna Karstiani (who also wrote the script), Little ngland is visuall lavish—a fresco of raging sea and rustic landscape, recalling an earlier era of narrative filmmaking. ince the 1960s, director Pantelis Voulgaris has een one of the masters of Greek cinema and a leading figure in sparking the recent wave of newl energized filmmaking. (Pantelis Voulgaris, 2013, DCP, sutitles, 132 minutes)
Chevalier Januar 24 at 4:00 p.m. ix men on a acht in the Aegean egin trading anecdotes that sound like fish stories. The agree to pla a game: while on the oat the will engage in a contest for the duration of the trip, judging each one’s manliness in a variet of categories. At the end, the est man will collect a victor ring—the chevalier. This latest allegorical feature from Athina Rachel Tsangari delves into a shadow male world of rivalr and aggression. “A committedl deadpan comed of manners, morals, and men ehaving weirdl oasts a contained conceit seemingl ripe for unfettered asurdism”—Gu Lodge. (Athina Rachel Tsangari, 2015, DCP, sutitles, 99 minutes)
Xenia Feruar 7 at 4:00 p.m. Two rothers meet in Athens for a road trip to Thessaloniki, where the hope to track down their estranged iological father—a Greek who never married their now-deceased Alanian mother. Greece’s entr in the 2014 Oscar competition and Un Certain Regard competitor at Festival de Cannes, Xenia mixes madcap humor with compassion and poignanc to present “a sweeping et precise examination of a countr that, like its two oung heroes, is in the thick of a difficult transition”—Dimitri ipides. The word xenia references a Greek tradition of hospitalit toward strangers, “an appropriate title for a film that gladl accommodates all manner of curiosities, from giant talking raits to chest-rug dream sequences to a cameo from venerale Italian pop diva Patt Pravo”—Gu Lodge. (Panos H. Koutras, 2014, DCP, sutitles, 2014)
Forever Filmmaker Margarita Manda in person Feruar 14 at 4:00 p.m. Costas, a driver on the Athens rapid transit green line (IAP), finds himself enamored of Anna, a passenger he notices dail taking his train from Athens to Piraeus. Too war to reach out, Costas remains content to quietl watch as Anna makes the dail trek to her jo as a ticket seller. An unforeseen event finall offers Costas his golden opportunit. Forever’s poetic mood, monochromatic palette, and stlized mise-en-scène estalish a sense of place without dialogue. Alluding to the eaut of silent film and one of earl cinema’s ke motifs—trains—director Manda descries Forever as “an homage to ever filmmaker I consider a teacher, from Dreer and resson to Antonioni and Angelopoulos.” (Margarita Manda, 2014, DCP, sutitles, 82 minutes)
ilent Feruar 28 at 4:00 p.m. A oung opera singer named Dido (Kika Georgiou) is suddenl struck a msterious deilit that locks her rain’s circuitr controlling her voice. Forced to return to Greece after living aroad, Dido is convinced her career has ended. he detaches herself from her famil and attempts to regain stailit, ut ultimatel finds herself retreating into a darker past as familiar ties reak down. “The truth of the matter is that our era ‘speaks’ more than an other. . . . What eventuall is said and how lierating that might e is, in fact, the question ilent aims to answer ”—YG. (Yorgos Gkikapeppas, 2015, DCP, sutitles, 92 minutes)
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