‘Setting Sail’ at Hillwood
• March 27, 2025

In 1959, Dina Merrill appeared as Ensign Benson in the Jerry Lewis comedy “Don’t Give Up the Ship,” then as Tony Curtis’s love interest, 2nd Lt. Barbara Duran — evacuated […]

AU Museum Opens 5 Shows
• February 13, 2025

Is the American University Museum the District’s most stimulating visual arts venue? It was on Feb. 8, opening night for five spring shows, the most anticipated being “Fred Folsom: Women […]

‘Bugatti’ at Easton’s Academy Art Museum  
• February 12, 2025

As I drove across the Chesapeake Bay Bridge toward Easton, Maryland, I took stock of the cars around me — egg-shaped forms in olive and jewel tones, wide-eyed and listless, […]

Spring Arts Preview – Visual Arts
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Setting Sail: The Story of Sea Cloud  Feb. 15 to June 15  Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens  Using documents, photographs, models, paintings and decorative art objects, “Setting Sail” tells the […]

‘Make Way for Berthe Weill’ in New York
• January 27, 2025

Q: Does Columbia, New York City’s Ivy League university, established by royal charter as King’s College in 1754, have an art museum? A: The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art […]

Hirshhorn Concert: ‘Igor and Coco’
• January 23, 2025

“Igor and Coco,” the catchy title of a free concert on Saturday, Feb. 1, in the Hirshhorn Museum’s Ring Auditorium, refers (no surprise) to Russian composer Igor Stravinsky and French […]

Weekend Roundup: January 23-26
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This weekend, stay warm indoors at events like “Tina,” the Tina Turner musical and drag star Sasha Velour at Strathmore, comedian Nick Swardson and of course cheering on the Commanders […]

Gorey 100 at the Library of Congress
• January 13, 2025

Edward Gorey’s work, distinctly Edwardian, was never gory. True, he populated his curious tales with stoic victims of misfortune — among the childhood fatalities alphabetized in 1963’s “The Gashlycrumb Tinies,” […]

Mickalene Thomas in Philadelphia
• December 19, 2024

Is Philadelphia’s Barnes Foundation an unlikely venue for an exhibition of paintings, photographs, installations and video by queer, Black, Brooklyn-based artist Mickalene Thomas? Two reasons why not: Because the Barnes’s […]

Are You Very “Demure” and Very “Mindful?”
• December 16, 2024

Want to impress your millennial or Gen Z relatives at your holiday gathering this year? Tell them they’re being “very demure” and “very mindful.” Dictionary.com has named demure its 2024 […]