Grant Wood, New Road, 1939
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
In the Nation's Capital
HUMAN AFFAIRS
Dialogues on events
that shape our world
MEMORY AND IDENTITY
Exploring our heritage
Testing our tradition
BEAUTY WILL SAVE
THE WORLD
Discovering the world
of arts: performances
and presentations
MEETINGS AT
THE CROSSROADS
Face to face with...
A place where roads meet. A time of change.
"If thou among the
eternal
Ideas art numbered,
which the eternal
mind
Deigns not should
e'er be clothed in
fleshly form,
And in frail human
frames
Learn with what ills
our mortal life doth
swarm;
Or if some other
earth be mine of
those
Innumerable worlds
wherewith heav'n
flames,
And, brighter than
the Sun, the nearest
star
Through kinder
atmosphere above
thee glows:
From here, where
days are brief and
skies soon darken,
To this, an unknown
lover's hymn, oh
hearken"

Giacomo Leopardi
"To my lady"
BEAUTY WILL SAVE THE WORLD
Discovering the world of arts:
performances and presentations
EVENTS

Flannery O'Connor: The Life You Save
May Be Your Own
February 28, 2008
(PHOTO GALLERY)



Kerouac: "All that road going,
all the people dreaming..."
January, 16, 2008
(PHOTO GALLERY)


Shakespeare: We are such stuff as
dreams are made of
November 13, 2007
(PHOTO and VIDEO GALLERY)




From the Ground Up
June 23, 2007
(PHOTO GALLERY)




Talking Music: Mozart, Requiem
March 30, 2007
(PHOTO GALLERY - PROGRAM)





GRANT WOOD'S STUDIO
BIRTHPLACE OF AMERICAN GOTHIC
June 3, 2006
(PHOTO GALLERY)




CAN POETRY MATTER?
A dialogue on the role of the poet in today's world
Readings of American and Italian poems
May 5, 2006
(PHOTO GALLERY)