Arts
Through Sunday Only at the NGA: ‘Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955-1985’
Mathewes Speaks at Cultural Leadership Breakfast
• November 9, 2017
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.
Last Chance: Textile Museum Director Speaks Thursday
• September 18, 2017
John Wetenhall, director of the George Washington University Museum and the Textile Museum, oversaw the 2015 relocation of the Textile Museum, founded in 1925, from a Kalorama mansion to a modern building on the GW campus.
FALL PREVIEW ARTS
• September 13, 2017
“Politically and socially, we are at the edge of another precipice. And those of us who are artists must charge into the fray, leading a charge to turn a tide.” — […]
Weekend Round Up September 7, 2017
• September 7, 2017
This weekend: picadillo and pizza, Rick and Richard, paddling the Potomac and preserving Georgetown’s trees.
