AU Museum Opens 5 Shows

February 13, 2025

Is the American University Museum the District’s most stimulating visual arts venue? It was on Feb. 8, opening night for five spring shows, the most anticipated being “Fred Folsom: Women […]

Amelia Island Hosts 30th Concours d’Elegance 

February 12, 2025

Concours d’Elegance — meaning “competition of elegance” — originally referred to horse-drawn carriage parades in Paris. Since cars replaced carriages, the term has been applied to events featuring high-style and […]

D.C. Artswatch


Trump Orders Impact National Arts Organizations  As directed by President Donald Trump’s Jan. 20 executive order requiring federal units to terminate Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programs within 60 days, the […]

Spring Arts Preview – Visual Arts


Setting Sail: The Story of Sea Cloud  Feb. 15 to June 15  Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens  Using documents, photographs, models, paintings and decorative art objects, “Setting Sail” tells the […]

Spring Arts Preview: Performing Arts


JAZZ, POP, COUNTRY, ROCK AND HIP HOP  Performers of note coming to Blues Alley include the Vijay Iyer Trio (March 13 and 14), Stanley Jordan (April 10 to 13) and […]

‘Make Way for Berthe Weill’ in New York

January 27, 2025

Q: Does Columbia, New York City’s Ivy League university, established by royal charter as King’s College in 1754, have an art museum? A: The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art […]

Hirshhorn Concert: ‘Igor and Coco’

January 23, 2025

“Igor and Coco,” the catchy title of a free concert on Saturday, Feb. 1, in the Hirshhorn Museum’s Ring Auditorium, refers (no surprise) to Russian composer Igor Stravinsky and French […]

Gorey 100 at the Library of Congress

January 13, 2025

Edward Gorey’s work, distinctly Edwardian, was never gory. True, he populated his curious tales with stoic victims of misfortune — among the childhood fatalities alphabetized in 1963’s “The Gashlycrumb Tinies,” […]

Philly in January

December 23, 2024

Philadelphia’s Mummers Parade, the city’s New Year’s Day version of Mardi Gras, will step off at 17th and Market Streets at 9 a.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 1, looping to the […]

Mickalene Thomas in Philadelphia

December 19, 2024

Is Philadelphia’s Barnes Foundation an unlikely venue for an exhibition of paintings, photographs, installations and video by queer, Black, Brooklyn-based artist Mickalene Thomas? Two reasons why not: Because the Barnes’s […]