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 […]

Legends Talk at the Phillips Collection   
• December 11, 2024

As long as I’ve lived in Washington, I’ve been in love with the Phillips Collection. For as historic, influential and mighty a museum as it is, it’s a funny little […]

Notes from The Underground—Dupont, That Is
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“We are both architects,” says Lucrecia Laudi, who co-founded Dupont Underground in 2005 with her husband, Julian Hunt. “But we come from different worlds.”  Laudi grew up in the Argentine […]

Jew:CE The Jewish Comics Experience 
• December 5, 2024

By Sheila Wickouski Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman—these are some of the stars in the exhibit Jew:CE The Jewish Comics Experience at the Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum, which […]

William Gropper at the Phillips Collection
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Only two visual artists were blacklisted for their alleged Communist sympathies during the Red Scare of the 1950s: Rockwell Kent (1882-1971) and William Gropper (1897-1977). Subpoenaed by Republican Sen. Joseph […]

Weekend Roundup, Nov. 28-Dec. 1
• November 26, 2024

Happy Thanksgiving weekend! No matter how or where you choose to celebrate, we hope you have a wonderful time. Here are some of the many activities happening this holiday weekend. […]

MOSAICO: A Timeless Art
• November 21, 2024

By Lucy Cullen “MOSAICO: Italian code of a timeless art” is currently on display at Dupont Underground. Developed in partnership with the Embassy of Italy, the exhibit displays art from […]

‘The Impressionist Moment’ at the National Gallery  
• November 13, 2024

On April 15, 1874, a small exhibition was opened in Paris by the “Anonymous Society of Painters, Sculptors, Engravers, etc.” It premiered one month before the opening of the French […]

Weekend Roundup, Oct. 31-Nov. 3
• October 31, 2024

Welcoming November’s arrival this weekend, there are plenty of things to do, including Dia de los Muertos celebrations, a new exhibit at Dupont Underground, tractor rides at Mount Vernon and […]

Art and Graphic Design of the European Avant-Gardes Opens at the Frary Gallery
• October 23, 2024

By Sheila Wickouski The Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti wrote  in 1909 the “Manifesto of Futurism,” a call for artists to reject the past, “destroy museums, libraries and  academies”  and […]