Arts
Filmmaker Gets Foot in the Door With ‘Step Back, Doors Closing’
D.C. Powerhouse Peggy Cooper Cafritz Dead at 70
• February 19, 2018
A mover-and-shaker for decades, Cooper Cafritz, cofounder of the Duke Ellington School of the Arts, died Feb. 18 of complications from pneumonia.
2 Powerful Operas: ‘Maria di Rohan’ and ‘Don Carlo’
• February 15, 2018
Washington Concert Opera presents Donizetti’s “Maria di Rohan” on Feb. 18; Washington National Opera follows with Verdi’s “Don Carlo” from March 3 to 17.
Bruni Brought ‘French Touch’ to the Birchmere
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The former first lady of France’s sold-out show in Alexandria, Virginia, promoting her second album in English, was Carla Bruni’s first American engagement since 2014.
Obama Portraits Unveiled at National Portrait Gallery
• February 12, 2018
The Michelle Obama portrait will be up through November with other recent acquisitions; the Barack Obama portrait will be on permanent display in the America’s Presidents gallery.
Weekend Round Up February 8, 2018
• February 8, 2018
Some options this weekend: tasting chocolate, cooking Indian food, learning about bridal etiquette and attending classical, jazz and choral concerts.
At the Phillips: ‘Ten Americans: After Paul Klee’
• February 7, 2018
Paul Klee was one of those rare artistic innovators whose influence, like an undercurrent, can be difficult to gauge from the surface but should not be underestimated. Born in Switzerland […]
Halcyon Hosts Arts Lab Open House
• January 25, 2018
The former Fillmore School now houses studios for Halcyon’s artist fellows; a dance studio named for Septime Webre and the “one-room” Mysa School.
‘Pickett’s Charge’ at the Hirshhorn
• January 24, 2018
Our way of describing art in grand, esoteric terms developed strangely throughout the 20th century as American academics began mimicking the dense and syntactically exorbitant style of influential French philosophers […]
A Half-Dozen Gone But Remembered
• January 22, 2018
Our writer salutes musicians Edwin Hawkins and Dolores O’Riordan, sportscaster Keith Jackson, little- and big-screen stars Doreen Tracey and Dorothy Malone and Sen. John Tunney.
This Week: New York’s Winter Antiques Show
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The loan exhibition from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is a treasure chest, but so are the booths of the 70 exhibitors, all of which showcase objects of museum quality.
