Arts
Sargent, Whistler & Venetian Glass at SAAM
Von Heyl and Scully at the Hirshhorn
• December 7, 2018
Throughout Washington and the rest of the world, mainstream exhibitions of contemporary art are evolving toward evermore diverse forms and displays, from interactive digital exhibitions to fully immersive environments. It […]
Von Heyl and Scully at the Hirshhorn
• December 4, 2018
Charline von Heyl and Sean Scully are masters of their craft in very different ways; together they present a strong argument for the relevance of traditional media in contemporary art.
Holiday Arts Preview: Visual Arts
• November 8, 2018
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART Gordon Parks: The New Tide, Early Work 1940–1950 Through Feb. 18 Within just a decade, Gordon Parks (1912–2006) grew from a self-taught portrait photographer and photojournalist […]
‘Japan Modern’ Focuses on Prints, Photographs
• October 24, 2018
In 1853, Commodore Matthew Perry steered his squadron of U.S. Navy battleships into Edo (Tokyo) Bay to pressure the Japanese government into opening ports to American mercantile ships. Perry’s arrival […]
Dawoud Bey’s “The Birmingham Project”
• October 10, 2018
On Sunday morning, Sept. 15, 1963, members of the Ku Klux Klan planted dynamite with a time delay beneath the steps of the 16th Street Baptist Church, an African American […]
The Auction Block Sept. 12, 2018
• September 12, 2018
THE POTOMACK COMPANY 8.21 CARAT DIAMOND SOLITAIRE RING ESTIMATE: $150,000 – $180,000 AUCTION DATE: OCTOBER 2 This impressive ring, with a diamond solitaire set in a platinum band with 3.60 […]
Glenstone: A Modernist Vision
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The development of Modernism during the late 19th century was, at its core, a series of extravagant experiments: experiments in philosophy and design, in constructions both social and physical, in […]
Fall Arts Preview: Visual Arts
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ARTECHOUSE New Nature Oct. 12 to Jan. 13 A first-of-its-kind digital art space, Artechouse, 1238 Maryland Ave. SW, opened in June of 2017. “New Nature” — the first large-scale solo […]
Georg Baselitz at the Hirshhorn
• July 25, 2018
In the wake of World War II, Germany was in ruins. What remained was a vast landscape of bombed-out cities and scorched countryside, and a generation of lost families, ashamed […]
Aboriginal Artists at the Phillips
• June 20, 2018
Last month, in anticipation of a June 7 breakfast talk by the brilliant and mellifluous Gus Casely-Hayford, new director of the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, I wrote in […]
