Monumental color photographs explore the sublime beauty and inherent danger of the sea and its surroundings in the days following September 11, 2001 in the exhibition Richard Misrach: On the Beach, on view in the photography galleries at the National Gallery of Art from May 25 to September 1, 2008.

The first exhibition to explore photographs made from paper negatives—calotypes—in Great Britain in the 1840s and 1850s, Impressed by Light: British Photographs from Paper Negatives, 1840–1860, will be on view from February 3 through May 4, 2008, in the West Building photography galleries. The exhibition features 120 calotypes, many of which have never before been exhibited or published in the United States, made by about forty artists.

A traveling exhibition of extraordinary archaeological treasures from the National Museum of Afghanistan, Kabul, will begin a 17-month tour of the United States in spring 2008, it was announced today by the National Geographic Society and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

The quiet but significant revolution that was launched by artists working outdoors in 19th-century France is explored through some 100 paintings, pastels, and photographs as well as artist and tourist ephemera assembled for the exhibition In the Forest of Fontainebleau: Painters and Photographers from Corot to Monet at the National Gallery of Art, East Building, from March 2 through June 8, 2008.

An ongoing program of classic cinema, documentaries, avant-garde films, and area premieres is presented each weekend in the National Gallery of Art’s East Building Auditorium, located at Fourth Street and Constitution Avenue NW.

Concerts by acclaimed American and international musicians make up the first half of the spectacular 66th season of free concerts at the National Gallery of Art—through December 30, 2007.

The National Gallery of Art ice-skating rink in the Sculpture Garden will open for the ninth consecutive year in mid-November and remain open through mid-March, weather permitting. Since it first opened in 1999, the ice-skating rink has been a popular and affordable recreational destination that attracts thousands of visitors each season.

The National Gallery of Art is celebrating the 2007 holiday season with free programs that include caroling, gallery talks, concerts, and a special lecture, The Young Velázquez, and a Rediscovered Altarpiece, as well as an online feature, ice-skating, and festive holiday decorations.

Robert Rauschenberg's boundless experimentation and his rich collaborations with talented printers will provide the focus for Let the World In: Prints by Robert Rauschenberg from the National Gallery of Art and Related Collections. The exhibition will present 58 outstanding prints, including some never before seen in a museum, on view at the National Gallery of Art, October 28, 2007, through March 30, 2008, in the Gallery's West Building prints and drawings galleries.

The British aristocracy's love of the countryside will be revealed in British Picturesque Landscapes, a focus installation of engravings and colored prints of scenic Great Britain from late 18th- and early 19th-century books, including three engravings of Turner paintings. Exceptional images from 19 books will be on view through February 24, 2008 in the West Building, ground floor, gallery G21.

The range and creativity of amateur photography in the United States is revealed in approximately 200 anonymous works in the exhibition The Art of the American Snapshot, 1888–1978: From the Collection of Robert E. Jackson. It is the first major exhibition, accompanied by a scholarly catalogue, to examine the evolution of snapshot imagery in America.

The first international exhibition devoted to Italian Renaissance sculptor Desiderio da Settignano (c. 1429-1464) comes to the National Gallery of Art-its only U.S. venue-from July 1 through October 8, 2007.