American Art in Philadelphia, at PAFA 
• March 16, 2023

Far older than either the Philadelphia Museum of Art (1876) or the Barnes Foundation (1922), the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is the nation’s longest-running art museum and art […]

Washington Concert Opera’s ‘Nabucco’ 
• March 8, 2023

After a standing ovation, Washington Concert Opera’s 2022-23 season ended on March 4 with a sing-along in Lisner Auditorium: Artistic Director and Conductor Antony Walker led the orchestra, chorus and […]

2023 Cultural Power Breakfast Now at Four Seasons! Meet New Corcoran Director Lauren Onkey, March 23
• March 2, 2023

We have a new name and location for our cultural leadership breakfast series. Now at the Four Seasons Hotel, 2800 Pennsylvania Ave. NW we’ll be hosting our Cultural Power Breakfasts. […]

Chamber Dance Project Dives Deeper into Dance on Film 
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When the pandemic shut down live performance in 2020, choreographer Diane Coburn Bruning, founder and artistic director of Chamber Dance Project, whipped up a virtual season for her D.C.-based contemporary […]

2023 Spring Performing Arts Preview
• February 8, 2023

OPERA   The Kennedy Center Opera House curtain will rise next month on Jeanine Tesori and Tazewell Thompson’s “Blue,” about a police officer — a “Black man in blue” — whose […]

Last Chance: Matisse and Modigliani in Philadelphia
• January 12, 2023

Sunday, Jan. 29, is the last day to see “Matisse in the 1930s” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and “Modigliani Up Close,” a few blocks away at the Barnes […]

Hopper at the Whitney, Katz at the Guggenheim 
• January 5, 2023

Now on view in Manhattan are major exhibitions of the work of two influential American artists, Edward Hopper (1882-1967) and Alex Katz (b. 1927). “Edward Hopper’s New York” is at […]

A Multicultural Voice at Choral Arts 
• December 19, 2022

“I’d like to start off with a song, if that’s okay,” said Jace Kaholokula Saplan. Delighted by the idea, the attendees at The Georgetowner’s Dec. 15 Cultural Leadership Breakfast were […]

Washington Concert Opera: One Down, One to Go 
• December 8, 2022

Opera without lavish sets and costumes? With the singers lined up facing music stands and the orchestra behind them, not in a pit?  If that strikes you as no way […]

Our Next Cultural Leadership Breakfast Speaker: Artistic Director, Choral Arts Society
• November 23, 2022

On Thursday, Dec. 15, from 8 to 9:30 a.m., The Georgetowner’s Cultural Leadership Breakfast Series will welcome Jace Kaholokula Saplan, artistic director of the Choral Arts Society of Washington. Admission […]