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Holiday Arts Preview: Visual Arts
November 20, 2019
•Chiura Obata: American Modern Smithsonian American Art Museum Opens Nov. 27 Born in Okayama, Japan, Chiura Obata (1885–1975) immigrated to San Francisco in 1903. In 1942, when World War II […]
Kennedy Center Opens the Reach With Parade, Festival (photos)
September 9, 2019
•Overlooking the Potomac River, the new campus is the setting for three matching white concrete-and-glass buildings with more than 130,000 square feet of space for artists and performances.
Summer Arts Preview: Visual Arts
May 16, 2019
•Six D.C. art exhibitions worth a special trip this summer.
LAST CHANCE: Cultural Breakfast This Thursday
February 14, 2019
•At the March 7 Cultural Leadership Breakfast, Jack Rasmussen will talk about the Corcoran Legacy Collection, acquired by the AU Museum following the dissolution of the Corcoran Gallery of Art.
Von Heyl and Scully at the Hirshhorn
December 7, 2018
•Throughout Washington and the rest of the world, mainstream exhibitions of contemporary art are evolving toward evermore diverse forms and displays, from interactive digital exhibitions to fully immersive environments. It […]
Master of His Universe, Stan Lee —1922-2018
November 13, 2018
•Stan Lee is dead. Not so the Marvel Universe he created. That, in all of its ubiquitous forms, will be around just about forever, and not just on earth. Somewhere […]
Stable DC
November 12, 2018
•IN THIS D.C. ARTS SYNERGY, ALL PLAYERS MAKE IT HAPPEN Stable really was a stable — for a Nabisco factory, in the days of horse-drawn cookie deliveries. Come next February, […]
A Collector of Senegalese Jewelry Tells Her Story
November 8, 2018
•The exhibition “Good as Gold: Fashioning Senegalese Women,” showcasing jewelry created by master goldsmiths in Senegal in the early and mid-20th century, opened on Oct. 24 at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art.
Holiday Arts Preview: Visual Arts
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NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART Gordon Parks: The New Tide, Early Work 1940–1950 Through Feb. 18 Within just a decade, Gordon Parks (1912–2006) grew from a self-taught portrait photographer and photojournalist […]
Exorcist Steps Up for Landmark Status
October 18, 2018
•On Nov. 15, the District’s Historic Preservation Review Board will consider an application to make the Exorcist Steps a historic landmark, similar to but not on par with the presidential and war memorials.