Arts
Filmmaker Gets Foot in the Door With ‘Step Back, Doors Closing’
A Refrain of Triumph Over Adversity: ‘The Migration Series’
• December 23, 2016
Jacob Lawrence’s epic series is on view in its entirety at the Phillips Collection through Jan. 8.
A Refrain of Triumph Over Adversity: ‘The Migration Series’
• December 21, 2016
In 1940, a 23-year-old artist named Jacob Lawrence set to work on a 60-panel series portraying the movement between the world wars of more than a million African Americans […]
DC Artswatch 12/7
• December 7, 2016
Works by Washington-area artists Margaret Boozer, John Dreyfuss, Sam Gilliam, Martha Jackson Jarvis and others will be on view in the public spaces of MGM National Harbor, which will have […]
More New Exhibitions
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The Great Swindle: Works by Santiago Montoya Art Museum of the Americas “The Great Swindle,” on view through March 26, looks at paper money as a platform of political propaganda, […]
Nicholas Rodriguez Is Arena’s Billy Bigelow
• November 9, 2016
Most people who were there when Arena Stage opened its spectacular new space six years ago with a revolutionary production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Oklahoma” remember Nicholas Rodriguez vividly. Back […]
Events Precede Official Start of FotoWeekDC
• November 8, 2016
The run-up to FotoWeekDC, Nov. 12 to 20, has begun, with events tonight, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
‘Scandinavian Pain’ at the Hirshhorn
• October 31, 2016
Welcome to America, Ragnar Kjartansson. We are also in pain.
Ex-Dancer Directs Donizetti at WNO
• October 26, 2016
Operas, like other performing arts occasions, are full of firsts: first time, first role, first time here, first starring role — not to mention the first note of the night. […]
’Twas the Time of Darkness
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The setting sun shrouded the typical early colonial home in darkness. For the ordinary American colonist, bright lighting simply was not worth the candle; the need for more light was […]
