Arts
Happy Birthday, Rabbie Burns!
Living
Gong Xi Fa Cai! Celebrating Lunar New Year
Arts
Panel on Earliest Opera by a Black American, Jan. 16
Arts & Society
Ricky Skaggs at the Birchmere
Living
A Winter Holiday Hotel: The St. Gregory
Weekly Arts Round Up, October 29, 2020
October 29, 2020
•On Halloween night, the Choral Arts Society and Dumbarton Oaks will stream music performances. Head to Martin’s Tavern on Tuesday for an election-night watch party.
Dumbarton House’s Daly to Lead Stratford Hall
October 26, 2020
•Karen L. Daly, executive director of Georgetown’s Dumbarton House for the past 12 years, has been named president of Stratford Hall in Virginia, home to four generations of Lees.
DC Artswatch: GALA, NMAAHC, Stable, NGA
October 22, 2020
•A theater welcomes an in-person audience, a history museum names a new director, the founders of a studio community step down and a major art exhibition is postponed.
Weekly Arts Round Up, October 22, 2020
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Opening soon: a new Addison/Ripley show and half the main floor of the National Gallery’s West Building. Next Thursday, go on a high-def encounter with the Barnes Foundation Matisses.
Chamber Dance to Hold Open Rehearsal, Oct. 21
October 19, 2020
•Grace-Anne Powers and Austin Powers will rehearse a duet, part of a larger work by Christian Denice that will be presented by Chamber Dance Project later this season.
Weekly Arts Round Up, October 15, 2020
October 15, 2020
•The 2020 Smithsonian Food History Weekend and a panel tomorrow on the legacy of John Lewis will take place online. In person, you can visit the Kreeger Museum and, soon, Planet Word.
Does Bob Woodward Ever Get Angry?
October 13, 2020
•Temperament and stamina have been Woodward’s journalistic and authorial superpowers since the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting he and Carl Bernstein did starting in 1972.
Weekly Arts Round Up, October 8, 2020
October 8, 2020
•“Girlhood (It’s Complicated)” opens tomorrow at the National Museum of American History and tickets for the Phillips Collection’s reopening weekend go on sale on Monday.
Weekly Arts Round Up, October 1, 2020
October 1, 2020
•Taste and Shop Georgetown kicks off on Oct. 5. Also coming up in the nabe: the Blessing of the Animals at St. John’s and fall classes at Hinckley Pottery.
Weekly Arts Round Up, September 24, 2020
September 24, 2020
•Joining the list of reopened Smithsonian museums tomorrow: the National Museum of American History and the National Museum of the American Indian.