Book Hill Art Walk, May 5
• May 3, 2017

The Georgetown Galleries of Book Hill will host their annual Spring Art Walk this Friday, May 5, from 6 to 8 p.m. The walk has become a staple of the […]

The Auction Block
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Breaking News: Weschler’s Moving to Rockville After 127 years in Washington, D.C., Weschler’s will move in June from the firm’s historic building at 909 E St. NW to a new […]

Portrait Gallery’s ‘The Face of Battle’
• April 19, 2017

    There is a tragic impermanence to artwork about war. For each immortal painting like “Guernica” or “The Third of May 1808” (Picasso and Goya, respectively), there are thousands […]

Portrait Gallery’s ‘The Face of Battle’
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There is a tragic impermanence to artwork about war. For each immortal painting like “Guernica” or “The Third of May 1808” (Picasso and Goya, respectively), there are thousands of depictions […]

June Schwarcz at the Renwick
• April 5, 2017

Generally speaking, the “how” of art is not something that particularly interests me. A great deal of expository efforts go into exhibition descriptions of contemporary and craft artists, in which […]

Museums Are Our Responsibility: Visual Arts Preview
• February 22, 2017

One of our new president’s campaign promises was to eliminate government waste, pledging to cut all unnecessary federal spending. This includes line items like federally funded research and development centers, […]

Toulouse-Lautrec at the Phillips Collection
• February 11, 2017

This exhibition of the influential Post-Impressionist’s iconic and rare printed works is on view through April 30.

Toulouse-Lautrec at the Phillips Collection
• February 8, 2017

Of all the Post-Impressionists in 19th-century France, perhaps no artist has maintained such a lasting cultural influence as Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Admittedly, there is an audacity to that claim. This […]

Herman Leonard’s Jazz Portraits at the National Portrait Gallery
• January 25, 2017

In all of American art, there is no contribution more significant to history than jazz. It is difficult to overstate this. The evolution of this electrifying new sound at the […]

‘Stuart Davis: In Full Swing’ at the National Gallery
• January 13, 2017

The retrospective of one of the deans of American painting runs through March 5.