Arts
Filmmaker Gets Foot in the Door With ‘Step Back, Doors Closing’
This Sunday: Spy Museum’s Grand Opening in L’Enfant Plaza
May 9, 2019
•For the official May 12 opening, the museum will host a family festival with musicians from the NSO’s Youth Fellowship Program, makeup artists, food trucks and a magician.
LAST CHANCE: Strathmore CEO to Speak This Thursday
May 6, 2019
•Strathmore President and CEO Monica Jeffries Hazangeles will speak at Georgetown Media Group’s May 9 Cultural Leadership Breakfast at 1310 Kitchen & Bar. RSVP to richard@georgetowner.com.
Tintoretto: One of History’s Greatest Painters All Along
May 1, 2019
•It is possible that Tintoretto will prove the most essential Renaissance painter for the 21st century. It is also possible that you, like me, will stumble out of this rare […]
Chorus Stands Out in ‘Oresteia’ at Shakespeare
April 30, 2019
•The Shakespeare Theatre Company’s new production of Ellen McLaughlin’s adaptation of Aeschylus’s “The Oresteia” is the last production to be directed by Artistic Director Michael Kahn.
Vibrant Summer Season Ahead at Wolf Trap
April 25, 2019
•Where Catherine Filene Shouse grew crops and bred horses and dogs — also hosting Washington’s political, business and social elite — stars from Herbie Hancock to UB40 will perform this […]
Telling Stories at National Geographic Museum
April 18, 2019
•Nearly 50 people came to hear Kathryn Keane’s talk at Georgetown Media Group’s April 11 Cultural Leadership Breakfast, in part due to the “Queens of Egypt” exhibition.
Notre Dame, Paris’s Beacon, in Dire Jeopardy
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Notre Dame is more than a church, of kings and bishops and Christians and martyrs, it is a kind of lifeform of humanity built with stone and wood, that aspires to flight even now.
Q&A With Artist and ‘War Story’ Author David Richardson
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There are novels about war and there are novels about art. But rarely are there novels about war and art. This is what makes “War Story,” author David Richardson’s new […]
Appreciating D.C.’s Jazz History
April 10, 2019
•On April 17, at Mt. Zion United Methodist Church, the Citizens Association of Georgetown hosts Georgetown University professor Maurice Jackson conversing with local jazz greats.
37 Years and 121 Artists – Smithsonian Craft Show
April 5, 2019
•Each spring, some 8,000 visitors from across the country flock to the National Building Museum for the Smithsonian Craft Show, one of the most prestigious juried exhibitions and sales of […]