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Roy Lichtenstein—Mexico—The Mural Tradition

National Gallery of Art - East Building Auditorium Fourth Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington

The National Gallery of Art, in collaboration with the Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies (FAPE), will host their annual panel discussion with Jack Cowart, Dorothy Lichtenstein, and Robert Storr. The conversation, moderated by Harry Cooper, will focus on the history and tradition of murals, in celebration of a major gift to FAPE of Roy Lichtenstein’s Greene Street Mural for the new US Embassy in Mexico City. During the New Deal era from 1933 to 1943, the American government administered four separate art programs that produced thousands of paintings, sculpture, and works on paper for display in federal buildings […]

Frank Settle — “General George C. Marshall and the Atomic Bomb”

Woodrow Wilson Center, 6th Floor Moynihan Board Room 1300 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington

For the Washington History Seminar, Frank Settle presents his book General George C. Marshall and the Atomic Bomb (Praeger, 2016), which details the evolution of General George Marshall's relationship with the atomic bomb―including the Manhattan Project and the use of atomic weapons on Japan―as it emerged as the ultimate weapon of mass destruction. Settle is professor emeritus of chemistry at Washington and Lee University and director of the ALSOS Digital Library for Nuclear Issues. The seminar is a joint venture of the National History Center of the American Historical Association and the History and Public Policy Program of the Woodrow Wilson International […]