Weekend Round Up May 17, 2018

May 17, 2018

Among the outdoor activities this weekend are: Bike to Work Day, with a pit stop event at Georgetown Waterfront Park, on Friday; and a C&O Canal Pride Day at Fifteenmile Creek on Saturday.

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


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


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


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


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.