On Friday, February 28, at 4:00 p.m., Earl A. Powell III, Director of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., will speak in the Easton branch of the Talbot County Free Library.
Earl A. Powell III, Director of the National Gallery of Art
Powell’s subject will be the upcoming $30 million renovation of the Gallery’s famed East Building. To accommodate the renovation, the museum expects to begin closing galleries in the East Building in July, with the last to close in December. The building will then remain closed to the public for three years.
Plans for the renovated space include two sky-lit interior Tower Galleries and an outdoor sculpture terrace overlooking Pennsylvania Avenue. The renovation will add more than 12,260 square feet of exhibition space to the museum. The $30 million price tag for this project is being paid for with generous donations from, among others, National Gallery Board President Victoria Sant and her husband, Roger; board member Mitchell Rales and his wife, Emily; and David Rubenstein, co-chief executive of the Carlyle Group, a D.C.-based private-equity firm.
Speaking of the donations that have made this expansion possible, Powell said, “This gift to the nation by these generous donors will enable us to exhibit more art from our ever-growing modern collection in spaces that will be at once spacious, airy and contemplative.”
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