American Art in Philadelphia, at PAFA
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 […]
Mapping Georgetown: Getting to Know Our Neighbors on This Year’s House Tour
As you wander through Georgetown, have you ever wondered who are all these beautiful, vibrant, interesting people who live here? Today we meet a couple — one’s an artist and […]
2023 Cultural Power Breakfast Now at Four Seasons! Meet New Corcoran Director Lauren Onkey, March 23
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. […]
2023 Spring Visual Arts Preview
Ari Post • February 8, 2023
Pour, Tear, Carve The Phillips Collection March 18 to May 14 “Pour, Tear, Carve” explores the role that materials and application in art can play in evoking personal memories, conveying […]
New Place, New Space, New Face for Washington Printmakers
Washington Printmakers Gallery (WPG), one of the main Georgetown Galleries of Book Hill, has recently moved up the block to 1675 Wisconsin Ave. NW. The artists are nicely settling into […]
Weekend Roundup, Feb. 2 – 5
We’re officially into February and lots of interesting and entertaining activities to go with it. Enjoy performances at area theaters, celebrate the beginning of Black History Month and get inspired […]
Powerful ‘Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski’ Now a Film
Anyone who has seen the stage production of the overwhelming, extraordinary one-man play, “Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski,” featuring David Strathairn as Jan Karski — who witnessed the […]
Museum of American History Unveils ‘Entertainment Nation’
Fantasy creations from Hollywood — R2-D2 and C-3PO costumes from “Return of the Jedi,” (1983) and Dorothy’s Ruby Slippers from “The Wizard of Oz” (1939) — are posed at the entrance […]
A Visit to a Splendid Land at the Museum of Asian Art
Sometimes referred to as “the Venice of the East,” Udaipur, the “City of Lakes” in Rajasthan India, has long been a tourist attraction. British administrator James Tod dubbed the setting, “the […]
Hopper at the Whitney, Katz at the Guggenheim
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 […]