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Rubenstein to Leave Kennedy Center, Possibly Buy Orioles
Weekend Round Up November 16, 2017
November 16, 2017
•The French Embassy will celebrate the Beaujolais Nouveau, the National Gallery will launch its Anne Truitt show and American University will welcome Women in Film & Video.
Made by History: Cox Graae + Spack Designs for the Future
November 9, 2017
•“Georgetown is part of our firm’s cultural identity,” says Bill Spack, whose name is one of three on the shingle at Cox Graae + Spack Architects. “Over the years, we […]
Weekend Round Up November 9, 2017
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On Veterans Day weekend: a book signing at the National Archives, a salute to the military at the Kennedy Center and a hike from Fletcher’s Cove to raise funds for Warrior Expeditions.
Mathewes Speaks at Cultural Leadership Breakfast
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A milestone in Melanie Mathewes’s effort to expand the audience for the National Sporting Library & Museum is the exhibition “The Horse in Ancient Greek Art,” which opened Sept. 9 and runs through Jan. 14.
The Freer/Sackler, Reinvented Part 2: The Sackler
November 8, 2017
•After nearly two years of renovations, the Smithsonian Institution’s Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery reopened Oct. 14. Part 1: The Freer appeared in The Georgetowner’s Oct. […]
The Freer-Sackler, Reinvented — Part 1: The Freer
October 25, 2017
•After nearly two years of renovations, the Smithsonian’s Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery reopened their doors Oct. 14, introducing four new exhibitions and a complete overhaul […]
Last Chance: Nov. 9 Cultural Leadership Breakfast
October 16, 2017
•Melanie Mathewes, executive director of the Middleburg, Virginia, institution since 2013, will talk about the National Sporting Library & Museum’s evolution and its current major exhibition, “The Horse in Ancient Greek Art.”
Textile Museum’s Wetenhall Speaks at George Town Club
October 12, 2017
•The George Washington University Museum and the Textile Museum — designed by Hartman-Cox to incorporate historic Woodhull House, most recently a security office — opened at G and 21st Streets in March of 2015.
Edvard Munch at the National Gallery
October 11, 2017
•Edvard Munch (1863–1944) is in a unique category of artists. Like Sandro Botticelli, Walt Whitman, Harper Lee and George Lucas, Munch is a rather permanent fixture of Western culture, whose […]
Smithsonian Honors Brokaw With ‘Great Americans’ Medal (photos)
September 25, 2017
•During the Sept. 21 event, Brokaw donated a West Point presentation saber and two pieces of the Berlin Wall, representing his more than five decades in broadcasting.