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Much Ado About Nothing
Folger Shakespeare Library
Beatrice and Benedick’s witty war of courtship moves to a Caribbean beat in this festive production set in the heart of DC.
Categories: Theater
Imagining China: The View from Europe, 1550-1700
Folger Shakespeare Library
As knowledge about China spread slowly westward through trade and travel, this vast country occupied European imagination.
Categories: Exhibits
DAR Museum exhibition - "Wedgwood: 250 Years of Innovation and Artistry"
DAR Museum
The DAR Museum showcases the beautiful artistry and marketing genius of Josiah Wedgwood 250 years after he founded his famous ceramics company. “Wedgwood: 250 Years of Innovation and Artistry,” celebrates the 250th anniversary of Wedgwood and the remarkable story of discovery, vision, experimentation, industry and exquisite design.
FREE to the public. Monday - Friday 9:30 a.m. - 4:00 p....
Unlimited Impressions: Featuring artists Karen Kunc, Judy Pfaff, and Brian Shure with an Opening Reception Oct. 23, 2009 5:30-8:00 pm
The Art Gallery, University of Maryland
From Friday, October 23 through Saturday, December 19, Unlimited Impressions showcases three dynamic printmakers that display the breadth of possibilities inherent in the printmaking process. The exhibition takes place in The Art Gallery located on the 2nd floor atrium of the Art-Sociology Building at the University of Maryland, College Park campus. A reception takes place Friday, October 23, ...
Categories: Arts
Exhibit: Merri Nelson's Drawings of a Maine Summer Island
Art League
10:00am – 6:00pm
“Summer Island,” Merri Nelson’s solo exhibit of delicate, detailed drawings, portrays the diverse environments of a small Maine island. For years this island has been her subject and inspiration.
This small island, which will remain unnamed, was once inhabited but has reverted back to the wild. “The moment I stepped on the island I felt at home. I love that it’s absolutely pris...
Categories: Arts
Exhibit: "Interaction of Color"
Art League
10:00am – 6:00pm
The title of this exhibit is the same as Joseph Albers seminal book on color theory. This juried exhibit, featuring works of all-media by Art League members, will focus on how colors can be used to create excitement, movement, space, contrast and dynamism in a work, whether representational or abstract.
Opening reception: Thursday, October 8, 6:30-8pm.
Categories: Arts
John Dreyfuss: Inventions
American University Museum at Katzen Arts Center
11:00am – 4:00pm
Sculptor John Dreyfuss will display six new large-scale works in the Sylvia Berlin Katzen Sculpture Garden. The clean lines of Dreyfuss’s forms represent stylized hand tools made larger-than-life.
Artists’ reception: Saturday, September 12, from 6–9 p.m.
For information on events associated with this exhibition, visit www.american.edu/museum.
Australian Indigenous Art Triennial: Culture Warriors A National Gallery of Australia Exhibition
American University Museum at Katzen Arts Center
11:00am – 4:00pm
Australian Indigenous Art Triennial: Culture Warriors will showcase the works of artists from each state and territory in Australia that represent a diverse range of contemporary indigenous art. This traveling exhibition is organized by the National Gallery of Australia.
Artists’ reception: Saturday, September 12, from 6–9 p.m.
Listening to Music with Aniko Debreceny: Opera in about an hour
Strathmore Mansion
11:00am – 12:30pm
Learn about the basic ingredients of this art form and experience some of the most ravishing music ever written.
Tuition: $15
Categories: Arts, Lecture, Music: Other
Organ Recitals at the National Cathedral
Washington National Cathedral
12:30pm – 1:00pm
A Cathedral organist gives a short talk about the Cathedral’s 10,650– pipe organ followed by a mini-recital.
Categories: Exhibits, Lecture, Music: Classical
Wende Flicks: whisper & SHOUT (flüstern & SCHREIEN)
Goethe-Institut Washington, the German Cultural Center
6:30pm – 8:30pm
East Germany, 1988, 120 min., DVD, Director: Dieter Schumann
Introduced by Ines Prodöhl, research fellow, German Historical Institute.
This documentary depicts the subculture music scene of the late 1980s in East Germany based on various bands like Silly, Sandow and Feeling B, and on interviews with teenage fans, who needed the music to express their opposition to their parents and to the sy...
Categories: Film
Ariadne auf Naxos
Kennedy Center, Opera House
7:00pm
Composed by Richard Strauss
Libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Sung in German with English supertitles
The running time for this production is approximately two hours and 23 minutes including one 20-minute intermission.
Tragedy and comedy collide when two sets of performers - one an opera company and the other a commedia dell'arte troupe - are forced to perform together. With stunning ...
Categories: Music: Classical, Music: Other
Creative Dialogue: Outcast And Society
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Laboratory Theatre
7:00pm
Two performances this season at the Center, Disfarmer and Hotel Cassiopeia, take us into the worlds of well-known outcasts, suggesting how their removal from society allowed them to produce art that captures, honors and creates magic from a world that we sometimes take for granted. A panel led by David Serlin considers the role of the “loner” and the power the outsider might have to see society more clearly.
Categories: Discussion
Stacey D’Erasmo and Jonathan Lethem
Folger Shakespeare Library
7:30pm
D’Erasmo and Lethem read from new novels set in post-9/11 New York City. D’Erasmo’s novel A Seahorse Year was a Newsday Book of the Year, and MacArthur Fellow Lethem has been published in The New Yorker, Harper’s, and Rolling Stone.
Categories: Books & Authors
Adagio Ballet - Fall Classes In Fairfax
Adagio Ballet in Fairfax
9:00am – 8:30pm
Adagio Ballet in Fairfax is proud to be offering a wide range of new ballet classes available for all ages 2 and up for the coming fall session. Beginning on Sept. 3rd and running through Dec. 27th, this is a great opportunity to meet new friends, learn new skills, and enjoy. The Adagio curriculum is designed to provide young dancers with a joyful transition from the world of magical fairy-tale...
Categories: Dance
Paintings of the Potomac River School
Sandy Spring Museum
9:00am – 4:00pm
Potomac River School, an exhibition of recent landscape paintings of the Potomac River Basin by artists Mary Kokoski, Andrei Kushnir and Barbara Nuss.
Categories: Arts
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