‘Bugatti’ at Easton’s Academy Art Museum  
• February 12, 2025

As I drove across the Chesapeake Bay Bridge toward Easton, Maryland, I took stock of the cars around me — egg-shaped forms in olive and jewel tones, wide-eyed and listless, […]

D.C. Artswatch
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Trump Orders Impact National Arts Organizations  As directed by President Donald Trump’s Jan. 20 executive order requiring federal units to terminate Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programs within 60 days, the […]

Spring Arts Preview – Visual Arts
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Setting Sail: The Story of Sea Cloud  Feb. 15 to June 15  Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens  Using documents, photographs, models, paintings and decorative art objects, “Setting Sail” tells the […]

Spring Arts Preview: Performing Arts
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JAZZ, POP, COUNTRY, ROCK AND HIP HOP  Performers of note coming to Blues Alley include the Vijay Iyer Trio (March 13 and 14), Stanley Jordan (April 10 to 13) and […]

‘GUAC’ at Woolly Mammoth Uses Art to Advocate for Gun Reform 
• February 6, 2025

“When you lose a son, what do you do?” According to Manuel Oliver, “you do what you do best,”—continue being the best father you can be. On Feb. 14, 2018, […]

Weekend Roundup: Feb. 6-9
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As we make our way through February, there are a lot of wonderful options for things to do this weekend. Watch the Super Bowl at District E, see a piano […]

67th Grammy Awards a Welcome Distraction
• February 3, 2025

If you’ve been stuck in an endless state of doomscrolling this year thus far, the 67th Annual Grammy Awards brought some musical joy to Sunday evening with rousing performances, fun […]

Burgess Company Dances ‘Seeds of Toil’ on Feb. 8
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“When I was a child,” recalls D.C.-based choreographer Dana Tai Soon Burgess, “I asked my mother about the scars on her hands and she answered simply, ‘I picked pineapples as […]

Catching Up With Tchaikovsky
• January 30, 2025

For a non-Italian, Tchaikovsky wrote a lot of operas: 11. Wagner wrote even more: 13, the librettos as well as the music. Mozart, who died in his 30s (not from […]

Onstage, Georgetown: February 2025
• January 29, 2025

By Mark Edelman February is for lovers, so take that special someone to one of these special productions this month. Fall head over heels over these labors of love, live […]