Cityscapes
• January 22, 2018

Cathy Abramson’s oil paintings investigate the stories of the city in “Cityscapes.” These representational paintings examine the emotional subtext of change and the connections or estrangement of people in transitional […]

Gallery Workout
• January 8, 2018

A “Gallery Workout” heightens the perception of visual art with movement and sound that leads to a greater understanding of the art itself. Visual artist Ellyn Weiss’s show “Form and […]

Jackson Art Center Open Studios
• October 10, 2017

Visit the studios of 30+ local artists and enjoy music, refreshments and conversation. Free children’s workshop.

Revival’ at National Museum of Women in the Arts
• August 9, 2017

Recently, most contemporary art passing through this city has focused on our external experiences, the way we negotiate, perceive or fit into our environments. Yayoi Kusama’s monumentally popular “Infinity Rooms” […]

Donald Sultan’s “Disaster Paintings” at SAAM
• July 26, 2017

In the 1980s, the painter Donald Sultan began a series of industrial landscapes that he called “Disaster Paintings,” transforming images from newspapers into large-scale, heavily wrought monuments to industrial devastation […]

DC Artswatch: July 12, 2017
• July 12, 2017

DC Artswatch Earlier this month, longtime Washington Ballet artistic director Septime Webre became artistic director of Hong Kong Ballet, succeeding former Royal Swedish Ballet artistic director Madeleine Onne. The newly […]

Markus Lüpertz at the Phillips, Hirshhorn
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The Hirshhorn just opened a major exhibition of rock-star Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, the museum’s third in five years. It is a highly personal landscape of political dissent, a sly, […]

Bazille at the National Gallery
• June 21, 2017

  About two years ago, I flew to South Africa to visit my mother’s family (she moved to America shortly before I was born). The last time I had visited […]

Wonder Woman of Greater Georgetown
• November 9, 2016

  For some time now, we’ve been noticing with awe the rising influence of inspirational, high-achieving women throughout the Washington area. They are making their mark not only in traditional […]