DC Artswatch
• September 9, 2025

 Leaving Town: NPG Director, Sherald Show   National Portrait Gallery Director Kim Sajet, who resigned two weeks after being “fired” by President Trump in a May 30 Truth Social post, will […]

Fall Arts Preview: Visual Arts
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State Fairs: Growing American Craft  Renwick Gallery Through Sept. 7, 2026  The first exhibition of its kind, “State Fairs: Growing American Craft,” curated by Mary Savig, the Fleur and Charles […]

Fall Arts Preview: Performing Arts 
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THEATER  ¡Adelante! GALA Hispanic Theatre presents Manuel Puig’s “El beso de la mujer araña/Kiss of the Spider Woman,” directed by José Luis Arellano (through Sept. 28).   Theatre Alliance is part […]

First Up at Mosaic: ‘Dodi & Diana’
• August 28, 2025

It’s not hard to guess which couple “Dodi & Diana” is named for: Egyptian film producer Dodi Fayed and Diana, Princess of Wales, both killed in a Paris car crash […]

Public Art Talk at the Phillips, Aug. 22
• August 21, 2025

Public art is rarely problem-free. Consider the following three works, here in the nation’s capital. On June 19, 2020, Gaetano Trentanove’s bronze depiction of hirsute frontiersman and lawyer Albert Pike, […]

In Staunton: Shakespeare and Austen
• July 24, 2025

Although the American Shakespeare Center’s Shenandoah Valley home is pronounced “STAN-tin,” putting the “u” in Staunton is mandatory. As for putting the “you” in Staunton, a two- or three-day getaway […]

Going Coastal: Provincetown, Nantucket and the Hamptons 
• July 17, 2025

The Atlantic Ocean off Long Island and Massachusetts is at its warmest in July and August. Even so, expect a shock when you step (or plunge) in. We Yankees like […]

Coming Up at Blues Alley: A Diva Jubilee
• July 9, 2025

Not diamonds. Divas. Georgetown’s landmark supper club, Blues Alley, tucked behind 1073 Wisconsin, will celebrate its 60th anniversary with some vocal fireworks. The jazz outpost’s “All Diva Week” runs from […]

Young Opera Singers at Holy Trinity, July 9
• July 2, 2025

Every year, in late spring, more than 30 young opera singers converge on Vienna — the one in Virginia — to train at the national park for the performing arts […]

At the Baltimore Museum of Art: ‘Black Earth Rising’
• June 26, 2025

Three miles north of the Inner Harbor, by Johns Hopkins University’s main campus, is the Baltimore Museum of Art, home of the Matisse trove assembled by Claribel and Etta Cone, […]