Last Chance: RSVP for Breakfast With George Hemphill

September 20, 2018

At this Thursday’s Cultural Leadership Breakfast, Hemphill will talk about how the business has changed since he opened his 14th Street art gallery a quarter-century ago, originally in Georgetown. 

Glenstone: A Modernist Vision

September 12, 2018

The development of Modernism during the late 19th century was, at its core, a series of extravagant experiments: experiments in philosophy and design, in constructions both social and physical, in […]

Fall Arts Preview: Visual Arts


ARTECHOUSE New Nature Oct. 12 to Jan. 13 A first-of-its-kind digital art space, Artechouse, 1238 Maryland Ave. SW, opened in June of 2017. “New Nature” — the first large-scale solo […]

Weekend Round Up September 6, 2018

September 6, 2018

This year’s DC Shorts Film Festival runs tonight through Sept. 16, with an opening weekend party on Saturday. Also this Saturday: the Book Hill Gallery Walk.

Portrait Gallery Displays Bernstein Photo on 100th Birthday (video)

August 23, 2018

The photograph, a promised gift to the museum from Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, is on view in the Gallery’s “Celebrate” space on the first floor, near the G Street entrance, through Sept. 23.

Silhouettes at the Portrait Gallery

August 22, 2018

In one wide corridor and four side galleries, the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery has installed “Black Out: Silhouettes Then and Now,” a thought-provoking — one might even say devious — exhibition that is almost entirely colorless.

Weekend Round Up August 16, 2018

August 16, 2018

Art lovers can take the kids to the Portrait Gallery’s open studio on Friday and learn about “degenerate art” at the National Gallery on Sunday — the last day of Summer Restaurant Week.

Weekend Round Up July 26, 2018

July 26, 2018

On Saturday, after an aquatic happy hour, you can hear Willie Colón and the best of Wagner’s Ring. Recover on Sunday with glassblowing at Glen Echo and landscape-looking at Waverly Street Gallery.

Georg Baselitz at the Hirshhorn

July 25, 2018

In the wake of World War II, Germany was in ruins. What remained was a vast landscape of bombed-out cities and scorched countryside, and a generation of lost families, ashamed […]

Weekend Round Up July 19, 2018

July 19, 2018

This weekend, adults can tap into comedy at the Kennedy Center and kids can widen their eyes at the National Gallery and stretch their ears at Wolf Trap.