Fall Arts Preview: Visual Arts
• September 9, 2025

State Fairs: Growing American Craft  Renwick Gallery Through Sept. 7, 2026  The first exhibition of its kind, “State Fairs: Growing American Craft,” curated by Mary Savig, the Fleur and Charles […]

‘Delighting Krishna’ at the National Museum of Asian Art
• June 12, 2025

In 2011, I happened upon a Brooklyn Museum exhibition called “Vishnu: Hinduism’s Blue-Skinned Savior.” One of the showstoppers: a large painted textile of eight milkmaids in a line — four […]

Last Chance: ‘Akira Kurosawa Explains…’ at Woolly Mammoth
• May 27, 2025

As one waits, seated, for Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company’s world-premiere production of “Akira Kurosawa Explains His Movies and Yogurt (With Live & Active Cultures!)” to begin, stills from Kurosawa films […]

Season Finale at Dance Loft on 14: ‘Muse’
• May 15, 2025

As the National Portrait Gallery’s second choreographer-in-residence — Dana Tai Soon Burgess was the first — Diana Movius creates dance pieces inspired by the works on view at the gallery, […]

Gorey 100 at the Library of Congress
• January 13, 2025

Edward Gorey’s work, distinctly Edwardian, was never gory. True, he populated his curious tales with stoic victims of misfortune — among the childhood fatalities alphabetized in 1963’s “The Gashlycrumb Tinies,” […]

William Gropper at the Phillips Collection
• December 5, 2024

Only two visual artists were blacklisted for their alleged Communist sympathies during the Red Scare of the 1950s: Rockwell Kent (1882-1971) and William Gropper (1897-1977). Subpoenaed by Republican Sen. Joseph […]

PostClassical Ensemble’s Brazilian Sampler
• December 2, 2024

For this listener, the most transcendent moment in PostClassical Ensemble’s “Legends of Brazil” program, presented on Nov. 19 and 20 in the Kennedy Center Terrace Theater, arrived about five-sixths of […]

Where Fashion and Dance Collide: “Dance For All” at Dupont Underground
• October 17, 2024

By Lucy Cullen The Washington Ballet recently performed at Dupont Underground, an arts organization that has transformed the abandoned space under Dupont Circle into a space for contemporary arts. Partnering […]

Addison/Ripley Fine Art Continues to Transform Georgetown’s Art Scene 
• September 21, 2023

Since 1981, Addison/Ripley Fine Art has been a fixture in the Georgetown and Washington arts scenes. Across from Book Hill Park at 1670 Wisconsin Ave NW, the contemporary gallery has […]

Georgetown Art All Night Returns Sept. 29 
• September 13, 2023

The third annual Georgetown Art All Night makes the scene on Friday, Sept. 29. Georgetown will “come alive with a multitude of free, immersive experiences for the whole family to […]