67th A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts at The National Gallery of Art: Hal Foster
• March 26, 2018

In his six-part lecture series Positive Barbarism: Brutal Aesthetics in the Postwar Period, Hal Foster asks how artists began again after the mass deaths of World War II, the Holocaust, […]

67th A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts at The National Gallery of Art: Hal Foster
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In his six-part lecture series Positive Barbarism: Brutal Aesthetics in the Postwar Period, Hal Foster asks how artists began again after the mass deaths of World War II, the Holocaust, […]

67th A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts at The National Gallery of Art: Hal Foster
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In his six-part lecture series Positive Barbarism: Brutal Aesthetics in the Postwar Period, Hal Foster asks how artists began again after the mass deaths of World War II, the Holocaust, […]

‘Outliers’ at the National Gallery
• March 7, 2018

Great art — or, at least, important art — can result from a purely rational process. The precisely delimited, flat-colored paintings of Mondrian and Ellsworth Kelly, for instance. But more […]

Weekend Round Up February 22, 2018
• February 22, 2018

The Atlas Intersections Festival starts intersecting tonight on H Street NE. This weekend only: the Progressive International Motorcycle Show at the Washington Convention Center and the American Craft Show at the Baltimore Convention Center.

PUBLIC SYMPOSIUM Boundary Trouble: The Self-Taught Artist and American Avant-Gardes
• February 2, 2018

Held in conjunction with Outliers and American Vanguard Art, illustrated lectures will explore subjects including religion, gender, and cross-disciplinary art practices. Speakers include Julie Ault, Gregg Bordowitz, Rita Gonzalez, Jessica […]

Weekend Round Up January 18, 2018
• January 18, 2018

This weekend, the ’20s will roar again at the Woodrow Wilson House, the National Gallery will showcase a Renaissance band and the convention center will turn into Vacation Central.

A Pictorial Farewell to 2017 (photos)
• December 28, 2017

The holiday season is a special time in the nation’s capital, as captured in this photo essay by Jeff Malet.

Neighborhood Visionary: Anne Truitt at the National Gallery
• December 6, 2017

The National Gallery of Art is not your average neighborhood art gallery. While part of the D.C. community, the National Gallery of Art is a colossal institution. On the entire […]

DC Artswatch Dec. 6, 2017
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Compiled by Richard Selden European Union Film Showcase The European Union Film Showcase, now in its 30th year, continues through Dec. 20 at the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center […]