Elizabeth Prelinger, Keyser Family Professor of Art History at Georgetown University, discusses "Display Stand with Madonnas" in "Out of the Ordinary." In addition to teaching a variety of subjects, such as German Expressionism and Weimar Culture, Romanticism, Abstraction, and the Symbolist movement, Prelinger has curated a number of exhibitions. These include "Käthe Kollwitz" (National Gallery of Art, 1992);" After the Scream: The Late Paintings of Edvard Munch" (High Museum, Atlanta, 2001) and "Paul Gauguin. The Prints" (Kunsthaus Zürich, 2012).

Georgetown University Gallery Director and Professor Evan Reed discusses George Tooker’s "The Letter Box" in "Out of the Ordinary"

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