Book Hill Art Walk, May 5
• May 3, 2017

The Georgetown Galleries of Book Hill will host their annual Spring Art Walk this Friday, May 5, from 6 to 8 p.m. The walk has become a staple of the […]

The Antiques Addict
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There comes a time when any antiques aficionado grapples with some insecurity, the kind that comes with determining whether a piece is a legitimate antique or a clever reproduction. Forgers […]

Portrait Gallery’s ‘The Face of Battle’
• April 19, 2017

    There is a tragic impermanence to artwork about war. For each immortal painting like “Guernica” or “The Third of May 1808” (Picasso and Goya, respectively), there are thousands […]

Portrait Gallery’s ‘The Face of Battle’
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There is a tragic impermanence to artwork about war. For each immortal painting like “Guernica” or “The Third of May 1808” (Picasso and Goya, respectively), there are thousands of depictions […]

Kreeger Museum’s Founding Director Looks Back
• April 10, 2017

Judy A. Greenberg spoke this morning at Georgetown Media Group’s Cultural Leadership Breakfast at the George Town Club.

June Schwarcz at the Renwick
• April 5, 2017

Generally speaking, the “how” of art is not something that particularly interests me. A great deal of expository efforts go into exhibition descriptions of contemporary and craft artists, in which […]

Panel and Last Chance: ‘The Great Swindle’ at OAS
• March 27, 2017

You have until Sunday to check out “The Great Swindle: Works by Santiago Montoya” at the Art Museum of the Americas at the Organization of American States on 17th Street.

In the Tower at the National Gallery: Theaster Gates
• March 22, 2017

  Walking into the Tower of the National Gallery of Art’s East Building, you are greeted by monuments. Towering planes and structures of stone and wood reach toward the skylights […]

DC Artswatch
• March 9, 2017

“Belize 35,” an exhibition marking the 35th anniversary of Belize independence, will run from Feb. 11 through March 13 at the Art Museum of the Americas at the Organization of American States, 201 18th Street NW. The featured artists are sculptor Santiago Cal, with two installations, and photojournalist Karl Villanueva, with color images made Sept. 21, 1981, Belize’s day of independence.

The 2016 Nancy Hanks Lecture on Arts and Public Policy will be given by John Maeda, partner at Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and former president of Rhode Island School of Design, on Monday, March 7, at the Kennedy Center. Named for the second chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, the lecture takes place the evening before Arts Advocacy Day. To reserve a free ticket, and for Advocacy Day details, visit americansforthearts.org.

The DC Independent Film Festival will take place March 4 to 13 at the Naval Heritage Center, E Street Cinema, the Carnegie Institution for Science, BloomBars and Miracle Theater Church. The festival will screen 16 documentaries — including “Mind/Game,” about former Washington Mystic Chamique Holdsclaw — and 11 features, along with documentaries, shorts, animated films and high school film competition finalists. For details, visit dciff-indie.org.

Septime Webre, artistic director of the Washington Ballet since 1999, will step down from the position in June. Named for his French great-grandfather, also a seventh son, he took the company to Cuba (which his parents left in 1959) in 2000. Webre has continued to raise the D.C. and national profile of the company and school ever since, through his bold choreography and, among other accomplishments, the launch of programming in Southeast at THEARC and the creation of a “Nutcracker” set in Georgetown.

Compiled by Richard Selden.

At the Hirshhorn: Kusama’s Meditative Carnival
• March 8, 2017

The hype was staggering from the moment it was announced. The Hirshhorn would mount the first Washington exhibition of Yayoi Kusama, the radical Japanese artist who has dominated the worlds […]