Half Virtual Arts Round Up, September 3, 2020
Closing soon: a botanical art exhibition at the Athenaeum in Alexandria. Now open: the grounds and pavilions at Glenstone and the sculpture garden at the Kreeger Museum.
Half Virtual Arts Round Up, August 27, 2020
Tomorrow is the last day to view the Ida B. Wells mural. Live and in person: a Haggadah program at the Museum of the Bible, storytelling and cemetery tours at Lincoln’s Cottage and comedy at the Birchmere.
Mostly Virtual Arts Round Up, August 13, 2020
Starting a two-week run on Monday: Metropolitan Washington Restaurant “Week.” Also on Monday, works of art 12 and 24 feet tall go on view at the reopened Hirshhorn Sculpture Garden.
DC Artswatch
Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III is reviewing a letter accusing the National Museum of African Art of having “recruited, retained and promoted a predominantly White staff.”
Half Virtual Arts Round Up
You can browse used books in Georgetown, tour District Winery, view art in Del Ray and soak up Shakespeare in Staunton. But there’s still plenty to do from your keyboard.
Pianist Leon Fleisher, 1928-2020
Fleisher, who died on Aug. 2, was not only a Leon but a Leo, which fit. From a young age, he was a celebrity in the world of classical music, which loomed larger in mid-20th-century American culture than it does today.
Mostly Virtual Arts Round Up, July 30, 2020
Those staying put this weekend can go on virtual tours of Prohibition-era U Street and Rock Creek Cemetery.
Improve Your Opera Singing on Zoom? Yes, Says M Institute
The virtual event on July 18 was one of several online master classes and workshops presented by the D.C.-based conservatory as part of its New Era Voice Festival.
Mostly Virtual Arts Round Up, July 23, 2020
The zoo gates are opening on Connecticut Avenue and the hangar doors are going up (so to speak) in Chantilly. But don't put your screens away yet.
Mostly Virtual Arts Round Up, July 16, 2020
The National Gallery of Art has reopened the ground floor of its West Building and the Athenaeum Gallery in Alexandria, Virginia, is presenting "Elzbieta Sikorska: Everything is Double."
