Holiday Arts Preview: Visual Arts
• November 8, 2018

NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART Gordon Parks: The New Tide, Early Work 1940–1950 Through Feb. 18 Within just a decade, Gordon Parks (1912–2006) grew from a self-taught portrait photographer and photojournalist […]

Dancers Brings NPG’s ‘Silhouettes’ to Life (photos)
• November 4, 2018

Inspired by the exhibition “Black Out: Silhouettes Then and Now,” the dance company of Dana Tai Soon Burgess premiered a modern dance work called “Silhouettes” on Oct. 27 and 30.

‘Japan Modern’ Focuses on Prints, Photographs
• October 24, 2018

In 1853, Commodore Matthew Perry steered his squadron of U.S. Navy battleships into Edo (Tokyo) Bay to pressure the Japanese government into opening ports to American mercantile ships. Perry’s arrival […]

Weekend Round Up October 18, 2018
• October 18, 2018

Sunday is performance-packed, with appearances by the Handel and Haydn Society, the Cathedral Choral Society under Leonard Slatkin, “Sholom Aleichem” and Eve Ensler and Anne Lamott.

George Hemphill on Selling Art in D.C.
• October 11, 2018

Hemphill Fine Arts has presented more than 200 shows, in the last 10 years broadening its offerings by focusing on the Washington Color School and mid-20th-century African American art.

Dawoud Bey’s “The Birmingham Project”
• October 10, 2018

On Sunday morning, Sept. 15, 1963, members of the Ku Klux Klan planted dynamite with a time delay beneath the steps of the 16th Street Baptist Church, an African American […]

This Saturday: Art All Night
• September 27, 2018

Hundreds of artists who live and work in D.C. will invade Tenleytown and Dupont Circle streets and spaces on Saturday, Sept. 29, as part of Mayor Muriel Bowser Presents Art All Night: Made in DC.

Weekend Round Up September 27, 2018
• September 26, 2018

This Saturday, you can have your animals blessed at the Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land, then consume one species in particular (while supporting its conservation) at Oyster Wars.

Heidi Latsky Dance’s ‘On Display’ at the Portrait Gallery (photos)
• September 25, 2018

The Sept. 23 event was the Washington, D.C., premiere of “On Display,” initially conceived to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Weekend Round Up September 20, 2018
• September 20, 2018

It’s a double festival weekend with Old Town Alexandria’s King Street Art Festival, postponed by Hurricane Florence, now going head-to-head with the Chesapeake Oyster & Wine Festival at National Harbor.