New Director at American Art Museum
• February 6, 2017

Effective April 3, Stephanie Stebich succeeds Elizabeth Broun, who retired last fall after 27 years.

Dumbarton House Offers Hard-Hat Tour, Talk
• February 2, 2017

Closed for a construction project, the Federal-period museum in Georgetown will reopen in April.

DC Artswatch 1-11-17
• January 13, 2017

The Smithsonian’s 22nd annual orchid exhibition, opening Jan. 14, will take place in an unusual location: the **Hirshhorn Museum**. “Orchids: A Moment,” a collaboration among **Smithsonian Gardens**, the **U.S. Botanic […]

‘Stuart Davis: In Full Swing’ at the National Gallery
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The retrospective of one of the deans of American painting runs through March 5.

“Stuart Davis: In Full Swing” at the National Gallery
• January 11, 2017

    I was 17 when I first saw Willem de Kooning’s black-and-white paintings from the late 1940s. These were the years just before his legacy was cemented in history, […]

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 […]

More New Exhibitions
• December 7, 2016

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, […]

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.