Arts
Filmmaker Gets Foot in the Door With ‘Step Back, Doors Closing’
Weekly Arts Round Up, September 10, 2020
• September 10, 2020
Upcoming topics for online learning: Japanese textiles, Russian opera (and tea drinking), naturalist Alexander von Humboldt and painter Miki Hayakawa.
Half Virtual Arts Round Up, September 3, 2020
• September 3, 2020
Closing soon: a botanical art exhibition at the Athenaeum in Alexandria. Now open: the grounds and pavilions at Glenstone and the sculpture garden at the Kreeger Museum.
Half Virtual Arts Round Up, August 27, 2020
• August 27, 2020
Tomorrow is the last day to view the Ida B. Wells mural. Live and in person: a Haggadah program at the Museum of the Bible, storytelling and cemetery tours at Lincoln’s Cottage and comedy at the Birchmere.
Aspire House Tour: Doing Good By Design
• August 20, 2020
The Aspire House Tour will run from Friday, Aug. 21, through Sunday, Sept. 14. This year’s home is located at 952 Mackall Farms Lane in McLean, Virginia.
Mostly Virtual Arts Round Up, August 20, 2020
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In-town suggestion: the weekend wine garden at the Kennedy Center’s River Pavilion. Out-of-town suggestion: George Mason’s Gunston Hall, south of Alexandria, Virginia.
Museums: Still Closed, for the Most Part, But Not at Risk
• August 13, 2020
NPR recently broadcast a story with the alarming headline: “One-Third Of U.S. Museums May Not Survive The Year, Survey Finds.”
Mostly Virtual Arts Round Up, August 13, 2020
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Starting a two-week run on Monday: Metropolitan Washington Restaurant “Week.” Also on Monday, works of art 12 and 24 feet tall go on view at the reopened Hirshhorn Sculpture Garden.
DC Artswatch
• August 11, 2020
Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III is reviewing a letter accusing the National Museum of African Art of having “recruited, retained and promoted a predominantly White staff.”
Half Virtual Arts Round Up
• August 6, 2020
You can browse used books in Georgetown, tour District Winery, view art in Del Ray and soak up Shakespeare in Staunton. But there’s still plenty to do from your keyboard.
Pianist Leon Fleisher, 1928-2020
• August 3, 2020
Fleisher, who died on Aug. 2, was not only a Leon but a Leo, which fit. From a young age, he was a celebrity in the world of classical music, which loomed larger in mid-20th-century American culture than it does today.
