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WETA: After 3 years of renovation and expansion, the East Building of the National Gallery of Art is back open on the National Mall.
WETA: After 3 years of renovation and expansion, the East Building of the National Gallery of Art is back open on the National Mall.
Katharina Fritsch's "Hahn/Cock," a 15-foot electric blue rooster, looks out over Constitution Avenue from the new roof terrace at the National Gallery’s renovated East Building. (Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post)
A top-floor gallery was built into one of I.M. Pei’s tower spaces, making room for a large display of works by Alexander Calder. Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post)
A collection of Mark Rothko works is located atop tower one. (Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post)
A stunning room devoted entirely to Modigliani is located on the ground level. (Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post)
New stairways connect the building and are easier to navigate. (Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post)
A trio of David Smith sculptures — Circle I, Circle III and Circle II — in the north window of the ground floor of the renovated museum. (Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post)
Alexander Calder’s 76-foot-long mobile still hangs in the atrium. (Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post)
A view of the new diagonal staircase in the National Gallery of Art’s East Building. (Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post)
The Alexander Calder mobile moves gently on its axis in the East Building's main atrium. (Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post)
Katharina Fritsch's saturated-blue rooster sculpture, "Hahn/Cock" is on view in the building’s new sculpture terrace. (Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post)
Pablo Picasso's "Head of a Woman." (Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post)
The gallery’s East Building has reopened after a three-year renovation (Image © Dennis Brack/Blackstar, courtesy National Gallery of Art)
The new Roof Terrace of the East Building at the National Gallery of Art with a view of Nam June Paik’s Ugly Buddha and Ugly TV (1991–1996), Kenneth Snelson’s V-X (1968), Scott Burton’s two Rock Settees (1988), and Katharina Fritsch’s Hahn/Cock (2013), on longterm loan from Glenstone Museum (Image: Photo by Rob Shelley, courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC)
Works by Rothko in the new Tower Gallery (Image: courtesy of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC)