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National Air & Space Museum’s “Nation of Speed”

National Air and Space Museum National Air and Space Museum, efferson Drive

"Nation of Speed"National Air and Space MuseumOpens Oct. 14, 2022For more information: https://www.si.edu/exhibitions/nation-speed%3Aevent-exhib-6030The new gallery "Nation of Speed" explores the deep-rooted connection between people and machines through the history they made together. This […]

Tuan Andrew Nguyen: The Island

Smithsonian American Art Museum G Street Northwest &, 8th St NW, Washington

Artist Tuan Andrew Nguyen creates multimedia installations that blend fact, memory, myth, and mysticism and use lush imagery to draw out these entanglements. By digging deep into archives and collaborating […]

Free

Simmie Knox: Selected Works

The Kreeger Museum

The Kreeger Museum is pleased to present Simmie Knox: Selected Works, on view from February 15th through April 26th, 2025. Works on view include three abstract paintings from 1970 and […]

Free – $15

Between Stories: A Conversation with Janine Antoni, Kaywin Feldman, and Byron Kim

National Gallery of Art, East Building 150 4th Street NW, Washington

Join us for a conversation on the important relationship between museums and the creative process with internationally renowned artists Janine Antoni and Byron Kim, moderated by Kaywin Feldman, the National Gallery’s director. This talk is held in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the National Gallery’s Collectors Committee. Founded in 1975 to build the collection […]

Free

Exhibition Tour—The ’70s Lens: Reimagining Documentary Photography

National Gallery of Art, West Building Located between 3rd and 9th Streets along Constitution Avenue NW Washington, DC 20001, Washington

Join a tour of The ’70s Lens: Reimagining Documentary Photography exhibition. In a decade of tumult in the U.S., photographers embraced experimentation. They changed the subjects they focused on. The field opened to underrepresented voices. Artists explored questions still with us today around the ethics, truth, and power of photography.

Free

Artist Talk: Mel Chin

National Gallery of Art, East Building 150 4th Street NW, Washington

Join us for a talk with Mel Chin, a conceptual artist renowned for his research-based approach that encourages greater awareness of and dialogue around social and environmental issues. The National Gallery recently acquired Chin’s Landscape (1990), which addresses idealized representations of nature in the past and the reality of our ecosystem in the present. A […]

Back Room Salsa Night

Glen Echo Park 7300 MacArthur Blvd Glen Echo, MD 20812 7300 MacArthur BLVD, Glen Echo

Join us Friday, March 21st in the Ballroom Back Room at Glen Echo Park for a sizzling hot night of Salsa presented by Glen Echo Park Partnership for Arts & Culture. We'll start at 7:30pm with a one-hour beginner lesson (free with the price of admission) followed by salsa dancing with a DJ from 8:30-11pm. […]

$3 – $59