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National Gallery of Art
A history of the gallery from its inception in the 1930s accompanies more than one thousand reproductions of the nation's art treasures housed in the great museum
Out of The Sun
History is a construction. What happens when we bring stories consigned to the margins up to the light? How does that complicate our certainties about who we are, as individuals, as nations, as human beings? As in her fiction, the essays in Out of the Sun demonstrate Esi Edugyan's commitment to seeking out the stories of Black lives that history has failed to record. In five wide-ranging essays, written with the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement in the background, Edugyan reflects on her own identity and experiences. She delves into the history of Western Art and the truths about Black lives that it fails to reveal, and the ways contemporary Black artists are reclaiming and reimagining those lives. She explores and celebrates the legacy of Afrofuturism, the complex and problematic practice of racial passing, the place of ghosts and haunting in the imagination, and the fascinating relationship between Africa and Asia dating back to the 6th Century. With calm, piercing intelligence, Edugyan asks difficult questions about how we reckon with the past and imagine the future.
Art Masterpieces of the National Gallery of Art, Washington
The National Gallery of Art, Washington, is one of the youngest major galleries in the world and it is certainly one of the finest. The idea creating such a gallery was first discussed in December 1936, and was only a year later that the work began on the building. From the first, the galley was designed to make use of the modern technology expertise available, to provide not only a superb setting for the works of art it was intended to hold but also to a ensure they were housed in such a way, by the use of devices such as your air conditioning, filter air and even ultraviolet screening panels at the windows, and that the paintings would be perfectly preserved as possible.
