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This Week: New York’s Winter Antiques Show
January 22, 2018
•The loan exhibition from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is a treasure chest, but so are the booths of the 70 exhibitors, all of which showcase objects of museum quality.
Closing Soon: ‘Nutshell Studies’ at Renwick Gallery
January 16, 2018
•Prior to the closing of “Murder Is Her Hobby” on Sunday, Jan. 28, there are two special events on the calendar, both on Fridays at noon.
They Left Us, With Memories, in 2017
December 28, 2017
•Here for one more time are some of those who one way or another have finagled their time on earth into the memories of those who cherish (or, in one case or two, deplore) them.
Weekend Round Up December 21, 2017
December 21, 2017
•In addition to Christmas music, shows and meals, there are jazz, beer and comedy options this weekend — not to mention a Falafel Frenzy and a Matzo Ball on Christmas Eve.
Weekend Round Up December 7, 2017
December 7, 2017
•Presented by the Georgetown Business Improvement District, “Glow,” Georgetown’s exhibition of light art, will feature nine installations by local and international artists, with works lit from 5 to 10 p.m. nightly.
Neighborhood Visionary: Anne Truitt at the National Gallery
December 6, 2017
•The National Gallery of Art is not your average neighborhood art gallery. While part of the D.C. community, the National Gallery of Art is a colossal institution. On the entire […]
Antebellum Portraits by Mathew Brady
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This is a rare exhibition, in equal parts fine art, Americana and a history of photography. It is a remarkable opportunity to look into the eyes of the past — and have them staring right back at you.
The Emmys: Where Was Trump?
September 18, 2017
•The heavy dose of Trump talk at the Emmys reinforces certain facts of daily cultural life in America during the age of Trump. You can’t get away from him even when’s gotten away from you.
Chuchu’s ‘Invocations’ at African Art Museum
August 23, 2017
•What comes to mind with the word “initiation”? The implication might be religious: A bar mitzvah, a first communion, a bris or a baptism. Maybe your mind wanders to Masonic […]
Markus Lüpertz at the Phillips, Hirshhorn
July 12, 2017
•The Hirshhorn just opened a major exhibition of rock-star Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, the museum’s third in five years. It is a highly personal landscape of political dissent, a sly, […]