Last Call: RSVP for This Thursday’s Cultural Leadership Breakfast

November 9, 2017

Howard Shalwitz, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company’s cofounder and artistic director, will speak at Georgetown Media Group’s next Cultural Leadership Breakfast, Dec. 7 at the George Town Club.

Weekend Round Up November 9, 2017


On Veterans Day weekend: a book signing at the National Archives, a salute to the military at the Kennedy Center and a hike from Fletcher’s Cove to raise funds for Warrior Expeditions.

Mathewes Speaks at Cultural Leadership Breakfast


A milestone in Melanie Mathewes’s effort to expand the audience for the National Sporting Library & Museum is the exhibition “The Horse in Ancient Greek Art,” which opened Sept. 9 and runs through Jan. 14.

A Chat With Mezzo-Soprano Elizabeth DeShong


DeShong — the words “important” and “rising star” keep appearing in her notices — is currently playing the “pants” or “trouser” role of the heroic knight Ruggiero in Washington National Opera’s first-ever production of Handel’s “Alcina.”

DC Artswatch

November 8, 2017

Compiled by Richard Selden 10th FotoWeekDC The opening-night party for the 10th anniversary edition of FotoWeekDC will be held Friday, Nov. 10, at 2801 16th St. NW. The citywide celebration […]

The Freer/Sackler, Reinvented Part 2: The Sackler


After nearly two years of renovations, the Smithsonian Institution’s Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery reopened Oct. 14. Part 1: The Freer appeared in The Georgetowner’s Oct. […]

An Eerie Walk Back in Time

October 30, 2017

On Friday evening, Oct. 27, Dwane Starlin took a group of people on a “Spirits of Georgetown” walk throughout the neighborhood, sharing stories that are buried deep within the crevices of the area.

The Freer-Sackler, Reinvented — Part 1: The Freer

October 25, 2017

After nearly two years of renovations, the Smithsonian’s Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery reopened their doors Oct. 14, introducing four new exhibitions and a complete overhaul […]

Last Chance: Nov. 9 Cultural Leadership Breakfast

October 16, 2017

Melanie Mathewes, executive director of the Middleburg, Virginia, institution since 2013, will talk about the National Sporting Library & Museum’s evolution and its current major exhibition, “The Horse in Ancient Greek Art.”

Textile Museum’s Wetenhall Speaks at George Town Club

October 12, 2017

The George Washington University Museum and the Textile Museum — designed by Hartman-Cox to incorporate historic Woodhull House, most recently a security office — opened at G and 21st Streets in March of 2015.