Arts
AU Museum Opens 5 Shows
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
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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
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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
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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 […]