DC Artswatch: FONZ, Smithsonian, Bible Museum, Hal Holbrook
Due to COVID-related financial pressures, Friends of the National Zoo and the zoo announced their separation after more than 60 years.
Weekly Arts Round Up, February 4, 2021
Get into a February frame of mind with red works of art at Washington Printmakers Gallery and two streamed poetry programs.
Weekly Arts Round Up, January 7, 2021
Classes are being offered by the Washington School of Ballet, Hinckley Pottery and others. Also available: virtual visits to the Tudor Place garden, Asian temples and Coney Island.
Weekly Arts Round Up, November 26, 2020
Holiday programs are soon to begin at Tudor Place and Dumbarton House. In the meantime, there is streaming aplenty — including a pressed-plant demo.
Weekly Arts Round Up, October 1, 2020
Taste and Shop Georgetown kicks off on Oct. 5. Also coming up in the nabe: the Blessing of the Animals at St. John’s and fall classes at Hinckley Pottery.
Weekly Arts Round Up, September 17, 2020
More Smithsonian museums reopen tomorrow. From the comfort of your couch, stream Japanese films, hear from Helen Hunt and view treasures from sunken cities of ancient Egypt.
Pandemic Forces Performing Arts Leaders to Rethink
The Georgetowner asked leading figures in D.C. theater to suggest silver linings of the pandemic, even as it has stolen the livelihood of countless arts workers and threatened the very future of many performing arts organizations.
DC Artswatch
This month’s DC Artswatch column includes items about the Helen Hayes Awards, Twins Jazz, Planet Word and Shakespeare Theatre Company.
Weekly Arts Round Up, September 10, 2020
Upcoming topics for online learning: Japanese textiles, Russian opera (and tea drinking), naturalist Alexander von Humboldt and painter Miki Hayakawa.
Mostly Virtual Arts Round Up, 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.”