Webcasts

Couldn't make it to a lecture? Can't remember a performer's name? Browse through the webcast list to view upcoming program descriptions and watch and listen to audio recordings from selected past events.

Upcoming

GameFest - Evolution of Video Games: Pioneers (March 16, 2012)
GameFest - Evolution of Video Games: The Future (March 16, 2012)
GameFest - Nolan Bushnell: Video Games in Retrospect (March 16, 2012)
GameFest - A conversation with Hideo Kojima (March 17, 2012)
GameFest - It’s All in the Design with Robin Hunicke (March 17, 2012)
GameFest - Discussion with the stars of The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (after the film screening) (March 17, 2012)
Symposium - Video Games: Beyond Play (May 4, 2012)

Past Webcasts

2012

Artist Talk - Annie Leibovitz (January 24, 2012)

2011

Discussion - Conversation with Collector Alan Rothschild (December 1, 2011)
Discussion - Washington Printmakers (November 16, 2011)
The Charles C. Eldredge Prize - Kristina Wilson (November 10, 2011)
Discussion - A Conversation with Internet Inventors (November 9, 2011)
Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture in American Art - Artist Julie Mehretu, Grey (November 2, 2011)
A First Hand Experience with Susan Ford Bales (October 13, 2011)
Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture in American Art - Artist Elizabeth Peyton (October 12, 2011)
Symposium - Encuentros (October 5 and 6, 2011)
Discussion - Something of Splendor - White House curator William Alman (October 1, 2011)
Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture in American Art - Author Meryle Secrest, Worlds Apart: Romaine Brooks and Amedeo Modigliani (September 14, 2011)
Creating Powerful Learning Opportunities, with Ron Ritchhart, Keynote Address, Clarice Smith National Teacher Institute (August 1, 2011)
Artist Talk - Renwick Craft Invitational 2011 - Matthias Pliessnig (July 30, 2011)
Discussion - Paik's Birthday with curator John Hanhardt and artist Jim Campbell Nam June Paik's Birthday (July 20, 2011)
Spark: How Creativity Works, with Julie Burstein, Clarice Smith National Teacher Institute (July 18, 2011)
Curator Talk - The Great American Experiment with Claire Perry ( July 14, 2011)
Conservation Talk - Reenacting the Masters (July 8, 2011)
Artist Talk - Renwick Craft Invitational 2011 - Cliff and Holly Lee (June 19, 2011)
Erased: Limits and Borders - Harry Gamboa Jr. (May 26, 2011)
Artist Talk - Renwick Craft Invitational 2011 - Judith Schaechter (May 22, 2011)
Collectors' Roundtable - Robert Lehrman (May 10, 2011)
Museum Announces Featured Games for The Art of Video Games Exhibition (May 5, 2011)
Art & Science Lecture Series - Cristián Samper (April 27, 2011)
Collectors' Roundtable - Helen Zell (April 26, 2011)
Art & Science Lecture Series - Rhonda Roland Shearer (April 19, 2011)
Artist Talk - Renwick Craft Invitational 2011 - Ubaldo Vitali (April 17, 2011)
Collectors' Roundtable - Bob Bennett (April 5, 2011)
Art & Science Lecture Series - Steve Monfort (March 30, 2011)
Roundtable - History in the Making: Renwick Craft Invitational 2011 - Everything Old is New Again (March 26, 2011)

Curator Talk - To Make a World with Alexander Nemerov (March 11, 2011)
Art & Science Lecture Series - Tom Lovejoy (February 23, 2011)
Art & Science Lecture Series - J.D. Talasek (February 9, 2011)
Conservation Talk - Painting Techniques of Henry Ossawa Tanner (January 21, 2011)

Art & Science Lecture Series - Alexis Rockman (January 12, 2011)

2010

Panel - Beyond Granite: Global Approaches to Public Art, Placemaking, and National Commemoration (December 8, 2010)
2010 Eldredge Prize Winner Kirk Savage - When the Ivory Tower Meets the Real World: Monument Wars a Year Later (December 1, 2010)
Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture in American Art - Artist Sarah Sze (November 16, 2010)
Rescue, Recover and Restore - Haiti Cultural Recovery Project (November 8, 2010)
Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture in American Art – Critic Mark Feeney, Four Photographers on Three Wheels: William Eggleston's Tricycle and Before (October 27, 2010)
Conversation with John Gossage, The Pond (October 12, 2010)
Shop Talk, A Revolution in Wood: The Bresler Collection (September 24, 2010)
Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture in American Art - Scholar Erica Hirshler, Looking at John Singer Sargent (September 15, 2010)
Intersections/ Intersecciones (September 10, 2010)

2009

Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture in American Art - Scholar Linda Nochlin, Consider the Difference: American Women Artists from Cassatt to Contemporary (November 18, 2009)
Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture in American Art - Critic Dave Hickey, The Evils of Creationism: Art History According to Darwin (October 21, 2009)
Symposium - A Long and Tumultuous Relationship: East-West Interchanges in American Art (October 1, 2009)
Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture in American Art - Artist William Wiley, What’s It All Mean (September 30, 2009)
Artists' Roundtable - Staged Stories: Renwick Craft Invitational 2009 (September 25, 2009)
Artist and Curator Conversation - Jean Shin: Common Threads (August 13, 2009)
Artist Talk - Cory Arcangel, Super Mario Movie (March 5, 2009)
Artist Talk - Cory Arcangel, I Shot Andy Warhol (March 5, 2009)
Artist Talk - Cory Arcangel, A Couple Thousand Films About Glenn Gould (March 5, 2009)
Artist Talk - Cory Arcangel, Super Mario Clouds (March 5, 2009)

2008

Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture in American Art – Critic Michael Kimmelman, An American Abroad: Culture and Society in Europe (November 5, 2008)
Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture in American Art – Scholar John Wilmerding, Tom Wesselmann: Pop Artist, or Not (October 22, 2008)
Symposium - Words Matter! The 20th Anniversary of the Eldredge Prize (September 12, 2008)
Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture in American Art - Artist Bill Viola, Transfigurations (September 10, 2008)

2007

Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture in American Art - Artist James Rosenquist, Fine Art is Not a Career! (November 28, 2007)
Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture in American Art – Scholar David Driskell, Introspective Art Account: Personal Entitlement (October 10, 2007)
Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture in American Art – Critic Benjamin Forgey, Changing Context: Architecture in Washington (September 19, 2007)
Augustus Saint-Gaudens Centenary Symposium (September 7, 2007)
Artist Talk - Sean Scully
(May 19, 2007)
Artists' Roundtable - A Sense of Place with William Christenberry, Betye Saar, David Beck and David Bates (April 20, 2007)
Artists' Roundtable - From the Ground Up: Renwick Craft Invitational 2007 with Paula Bartron, Jocelyn Chateauvert, Beth Lipman and Beth Cavener Stichter (March 30, 2007)

2006

Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture in American Art - Scholar David Park Curry, William Merritt Chase: A Little Fish Story (November 8, 2006)
Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture in American Art - Artist Maya Lin, Art and Architecture (October 18, 2006)
Symposium - American Art in a Global Context (September 28-30, 2006)
Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture in American Art - Critic Jed Perl, Democratic Elitism: Reflections on High Culture and Modern Society (September 20, 2006)