Arts
Filmmaker Gets Foot in the Door With ‘Step Back, Doors Closing’
Last Chance: Gordon Parks at the National Gallery
February 5, 2019
•“Gordon Parks: The New Tide, Early Works 1940-1950,” on view through Feb. 18, offers direct vantage into an era when the government sponsored art projects on a national scale.
Cross MacKenzie’s Last Picture Shows on Book Hill
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Co-owners Rebecca Cross and her husband, photographer Maxwell MacKenzie, are relocating the gallery to their new home in Hillsboro, Virginia.
Russell Baker and Other Recent Losses
January 31, 2019
•If Baker was one of the more prominent losses suffered by the rest of us this month, it was not as if death was taking a holiday. All kinds of people and some noted animals died.
Weekend Round Up January 31, 2019
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This weekend at the Kennedy Center, American Ballet Theatre is in town to perform “Harlequinade.” Friday is International Gruit Day, Saturday is Groundhog Day and you know what Sunday is.
Tim Nelson’s Vision for the In Series
January 25, 2019
•The just-ended production of “From U Street to the Cotton Club” at the Source Theatre marks the middle of the In Series’ first season under Artistic Director Timothy Nelson, who […]
Windsor Chairs: The Democratic Seat
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Wherever the first Windsor chair came from, in the 18th-century American colonies it became known as the “democratic chair” of the independent American nation. The legend about its beginnings has […]
Winter Is For Movies
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Let’s talk about marches and shutdowns and “life-threatening” temperatures and scuffles and bigots and presidents and politicians. Let’s not. Let’s talk about Dorothy, the Tin Man, the Cowardly Lion and […]
Oscar Nominees in Home Stretch Spotlight
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After various awards ceremonies, the home- stretch spotlight has fallen upon the win-or- lose finalists for the 91st Academy Awards, the Oscars. The just-released list of nominees is a mixed […]
Weekend Round Up January 24, 2019
January 24, 2019
•Closing this weekend: Dupont speakeasy the Sheppard and two musical shows in Arlington. Opening this weekend: art exhibitions at GU’s new de la Cruz Gallery and AU’s Katzen Center.
The Oscar Nominations: A Mixed Bag
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It’s an odd lot, this lot of 2019 nominations, given that the two films that tied for the most nominations (10) you may or may not have heard of.