Arts
DC Jazz Festival Founder Charlie Fishman, 1942-2024
Weekly Arts Round Up, May 6, 2021
May 6, 2021
•As part of the Smithsonian’s phased re-emergence, the Renwick Gallery will reopen on May 14 with “Forces of Nature: Renwick Invitational 2020.”
Weekly Arts Round Up, April 29, 2021
April 29, 2021
•Woolly Mammoth’s free virtual gala will take place on Monday and the National Air and Space Museum’s Udvar-Hazy Center will reopen on Wednesday with timed-entry ticketing.
Weekly Arts Round Up, April 22, 2021
April 22, 2021
•Sign up for the National Sporting Library & Museum’s online program on brook trout next Thursday and you may win a sample of dry flies.
Emancipation Day Events Will Focus on Freedom and Citizenship
April 15, 2021
•The holiday celebrates the passage of the DC Compensated Emancipation Act of 1862, signed by President Lincoln on April 16.
Weekly Arts Round Up, April 15, 2021
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Ford’s is presenting a radio play and GALA will reopen with a show about radio plays. This Saturday: a streamed performance by the Thalea String Quartet.
Alice Neel at the Met
April 13, 2021
•Part chronological and part thematic, “Alice Neel: People Come First,” on view through Aug. 1, presents close to 100 works in Neel’s signature style.
Weekly Arts Round Up, April 8, 2021
April 8, 2021
•Five works of light art will make their Georgetown debut tomorrow, when “Glow” opens to the public. Glen Echo Park’s Dentzel Carousel is 100, and the virtual celebration has begun.
Bromley Will Return to D.C. as New Four Seasons GM
April 5, 2021
•Mark Bromley, son of a former general manager of the Four Seasons Hotel in Georgetown, has been named the high-profile property’s new senior general manager, effective May 13.
Texas Novelist and Georgetown Bookseller Larry McMurtry, 84
April 1, 2021
•The author of “Horseman, Pass By” (reworked by Hollywood as “Hud”), “The Last Picture Show,” “Terms of Endearment” and “Lonesome Dove” died on March 25.
Weekly Arts Round Up, April 1, 2021
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In person, you can feast your eyes at the Kreeger Museum and Hemphill Fine Arts. Now available for streaming: Broadway star Daniel J. Watts’s one-man show.