Afrofuturist Opera at Strathmore, April 28-29  
• March 9, 2022

Shortly after Donald Trump’s 2017 inauguration, two dystopian classics, George Orwell’s “1984” and Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” — the first published in 1949 and the second in 1985 — […]

Last Chance: Jasper Johns in Philly
• February 3, 2022

“Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror,” the two-museum, two-city retrospective of work by the 91-year-old artist many consider the greatest living American painter, closes on Sunday, Feb. 13. You may feel all Johnsed […]

Cultural Leadership Breakfast Hosts National Building Museum President
• December 20, 2021

Since its creation by Congress in 1980 to reanimate the immense, near-century-old Pension Building, the National Building Museum has had just five directors (not counting the recent interim stint by Brent […]

Jasper Johns at the Whitney
• December 8, 2021

    Thanks to Andy Warhol, Campbell’s soup and Brillo pads hold an honored place in art history. Two years younger, Jasper Johns got there first with Ballantine ale and Savarin coffee, pointing the way to Pop Art as he had […]

STC Artistic Director Simon Godwin Enthralls at Cultural Leadership Breakfast
• November 22, 2021

When, in his 20s, Simon Godwin decided to leave the Royal and Derngate Theatres in Northampton, England, to study clowning, mime and acrobatics at the London International School of Performing Arts, his soon-to-be-former boss declared: “Your […]

Cultural Leadership Breakfasts to Return Nov. 18, Dec. 16 
• November 11, 2021

The Georgetowner’s monthly Cultural Leadership Breakfast Series — which presented insider talks by 38 leaders of D.C.-area museums, theaters, performing arts venues, dance companies and other arts organizations before going on […]

Philip Bermingham: The Power of Photography
• May 17, 2021

Some of the people photographed by Philip Bermingham — Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip with George H. W. and Barbara Bush, for instance — are figures known the world over. […]

PERFORMING ARTS
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CLASSICAL AND CHORAL MUSIC Streaming in Washington Performing Arts’ Home Delivery Plus series from June 4 to 10 will be a performance of Bach’s “The Art of Fugue” by German […]

DC Artswatch: NGA, NBM, NPG, Corcoran, ASC
• May 13, 2021

Three D.C. museums add key people, GW names a new Corcoran School director and Ethan McSweeney leaves the American Shakespeare Center in Staunton, Virginia.

Weekly Arts Round Up, May 13, 2021
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This weekend: a “makers market” at Dumbarton House and live jazz at Glover Park Grill. Starting May 21, you can visit Xiao Qi Ji, the National Zoo’s “Little Miracle,” in panda (so to speak).