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Coming in 2021: Works by Women Photographers
• December 11, 2020
“Mary Ellen Mark: Girlhood” is due to open at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in January, and “The New Woman Behind the Camera” at the National Gallery of Art in February.
Weekly Arts Round Up, November 12, 2020
• November 12, 2020
On Friday and Saturday, the Udvar-Hazy Center will celebrate the International Space Station. Also, galleries are about to close and reopen in the National Gallery’s West Building.
DC Artswatch: GALA, NMAAHC, Stable, NGA
• October 22, 2020
A theater welcomes an in-person audience, a history museum names a new director, the founders of a studio community step down and a major art exhibition is postponed.
Weekly Arts Round Up, October 22, 2020
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Opening soon: a new Addison/Ripley show and half the main floor of the National Gallery’s West Building. Next Thursday, go on a high-def encounter with the Barnes Foundation Matisses.
Museums: Still Closed, for the Most Part, But Not at Risk
• August 13, 2020
NPR recently broadcast a story with the alarming headline: “One-Third Of U.S. Museums May Not Survive The Year, Survey Finds.”
Mostly Virtual Arts Round Up, July 16, 2020
• July 16, 2020
The National Gallery of Art has reopened the ground floor of its West Building and the Athenaeum Gallery in Alexandria, Virginia, is presenting “Elzbieta Sikorska: Everything is Double.”
DC Artswatch: National Gallery & Blues Alley
• July 15, 2020
D.C.-area cultural organizations aren’t rushing to reopen. Some, like Washington Performing Arts, are looking to make the most of the need for distancing.
Mostly Virtual Arts Round Up, June 18, 2020
• June 18, 2020
In this week’s Round Up: The Washington Ballet Takes Center Stage Virtual Gala, a Wright Brothers-themed Zoom-around and a mammal surveillance opportunity.
DC Artswatch: Plans and Reopenings
• June 17, 2020
D.C.-area cultural organizations aren’t rushing to reopen. Some, like Washington Performing Arts, are looking to make the most of the need for distancing.
Black Lives Matter in the Arts
• June 16, 2020
At this moment, art in America isn’t transcending anything. It is mired in the same oppressive systems that methodically obstruct and destroy African American lives.
