Spring Arts Preview: Visual Arts
• February 10, 2026

 The Outwin 2025: American Portraiture Today  National Portrait Gallery  Through Aug. 30   More than 3,300 paintings, photographs, sculptures and time-based media installations were entered in the National Portrait Gallery’s most recent Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition. Now on view, “The Outwin 2025: American […]

AU Museum Opens 5 Shows
• February 13, 2025

Is the American University Museum the District’s most stimulating visual arts venue? It was on Feb. 8, opening night for five spring shows, the most anticipated being “Fred Folsom: Women […]

2024 Fall Arts Preview: Visual Arts
• September 11, 2024

Ralph Steadman: And Another Thing American University Museum Through Dec. 8  The American University Museum is the first U.S. venue for the touring exhibition, “Ralph Steadman: And Another Thing,” featuring […]

2023 Spring Visual Arts Preview  
• February 8, 2023

Pour, Tear, Carve   The Phillips Collection   March 18 to May 14     “Pour, Tear, Carve” explores the role that materials and application in art can play in evoking personal memories, conveying […]

Anil Revri: Into the Light
• September 17, 2021

Exhibition open from Oct. 16 through Dec.12: Anil Revri: Into the Light is presented by the AU Museum Project Space. Anil Revri creates dazzling geometric abstractions that embody the cross pollination […]

Fall Exhibits at the AU Museum
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Exhibitions open from Aug. 28 through Dec. 12: Successions: Traversing U.S. Colonialism is a solo exhibition by Amber Robles-Gordon, a conceptual juxtaposition celebrating abstraction as an art form. Robles-Gordon interrogates past and […]

Peace Corps at 60 at the American University Museum
• February 20, 2021

Peace Corps at 60: Inside the Volunteer Experience brings the world home through the stories and objects of 30 individuals, representing a sampling of the 240,000 people who have volunteered their service. The […]

Mostly Virtual Arts Round Up, July 9, 2020
• July 9, 2020

Those venturing out can augment their reality on the National Mall or visit niche museums in Frederick and (starting July 17) Middleburg. And French cuisine would be apropos this weekend.

Weekend Round Up October 17, 2019
• October 17, 2019

Saturday choices for those with toddlers and tweens: Fall Family Fun Day at the American University Museum and Art Safari at the Torpedo Factory.

Weekend Round Up September 5, 2019
• September 5, 2019

The Reach Opening Festival, celebrating the Kennedy Center’s dramatic new pavilions, runs from Saturday, Sept. 7, to Sunday, Sept. 22.