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Weekend Roundup: Balloons, Portraits and Winter Fun
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Through Sunday Only at the NGA: ‘Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955-1985’
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At the Renwick: ‘State Fairs: Growing American Craft’
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Georgetown Resident Exhibits Art by Her Students, D.C. Inmates
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Tawny Chatmon’s Portraits Take Center Stage at the National Museum of Women in the Arts
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.
DC Shorts Film Festival Starts Sept. 7
• September 5, 2017
A dozen of the showcases are thematic: all-animation, all-LGBT, etc. New this year is a free outdoor showcase on Sept. 14 in Farragut Square.
Fun, Loud Launch for ‘202 Creates’
• August 31, 2017
“202 Creates” events will include a Labor Day Weekend Music Festival at the historic Lincoln Theatre and a family-friendly arts and cultural festival on Sept. 9 at the Southwest Waterfront and Randall Field.
Revival’ at National Museum of Women in the Arts
• August 9, 2017
Recently, most contemporary art passing through this city has focused on our external experiences, the way we negotiate, perceive or fit into our environments. Yayoi Kusama’s monumentally popular “Infinity Rooms” […]
‘Revival’ at National Museum of Women in the Arts
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Recently, most contemporary art passing through this city has focused on our external experiences, the way we negotiate, perceive or fit into our environments. Yayoi Kusama’s monumentally popular “Infinity Rooms” […]
DC Artswatch: July 12, 2017
• July 12, 2017
DC Artswatch Earlier this month, longtime Washington Ballet artistic director Septime Webre became artistic director of Hong Kong Ballet, succeeding former Royal Swedish Ballet artistic director Madeleine Onne. The newly […]
Markus Lüpertz at the Phillips, Hirshhorn
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The Hirshhorn just opened a major exhibition of rock-star Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, the museum’s third in five years. It is a highly personal landscape of political dissent, a sly, […]
Bazille at the National Gallery
• June 21, 2017
About two years ago, I flew to South Africa to visit my mother’s family (she moved to America shortly before I was born). The last time I had visited […]
‘Portals’ — and the Paris Accord
• June 7, 2017
Our president plans to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate accord, a landmark agreement negotiated in 2015 by representatives of 195 countries. The accord signifies a commitment […]
‘Portals’ — and the Paris Accord
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Our president plans to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate accord, a landmark agreement negotiated in 2015 by representatives of 195 countries. The accord signifies a commitment to […]
