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From Impressionism to Modernism: The Chester Dale Collection
National Gallery of Art
Chester Dale's magnificent bequest to the National Gallery of Art in 1962 included a generous endowment as well as one of America's most important collections of French painting from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This special exhibition, the first in 45 years to explore the extraordinary legacy left to the nation by this passionate collector, features some 84 of his finest French and American paintings.
Categories: Arts
The Sacred Made Real: Spanish Painting and Sculpture, 1600-1700
National Gallery of Art
Arrestingly real sculptures and paintings of the saints, the Immaculate Conception, and the Passion of Christ are among some 20 Spanish masterpieces of the 17th century on view in a landmark exhibition at the National Gallery of Art. The Sacred Made Real: Spanish Painting and Sculpture, 1600–1700 will showcase major paintings by Diego Velázquez, Francisco de Zurbarán, and Francisco Pacheco,...
Categories: Arts
Marcella Morgese, Montpelier Arts Center, Library Gallery
Montpelier Arts Center
Mixed media works by Maryland sculptor. Feb. 5- March 26
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Youtube
A new dance on camera from Unevenlane, conceived and created by Mary Lane. Unevenlane is a new dance company based in Washington, DC. Under the artistic direction of the company's founder Mary Lane, the group is compiling a unique body of work with a distinctive style. While exploring various mediums for the context of her work, Lane's choreography demonstrates a respect for structure as she co...
Terra Cotta Warriors: Guardians of China's First Emperor
National Geographic Museum
Soldiers. Charioteers. Archers. Musicians. Generals. Acrobats. Nearly 2,000 years ago, thousands of life-size clay figures were buried in massive underground pits to accompany China's first emperor, Qin Shihuangdi, into the afterlife. Their discovery outside the city of Xi'an in 1974 is one of the greatest archaeological finds of the 20th century.
Now, you can stand face-to-face with these t...
Categories: Exhibits, Family Oriented, International
Georgia O’Keeffe: Abstraction
The Phillips Collection
O’Keeffe’s bold representations of flowers, bones, and landscapes are icons of 20th-century art; she was also a pioneer in abstract painting. The exhibition of over 100 works reveals this achievement, from her groundbreaking charcoals of 1915, to her close-up views of flowers and bones, to her spare watercolors of the 1970s. It also includes examples of Alfred Stieglitz’s famous photogr...
Categories: Exhibits
Intersections: at the time being, Linn Meyers
The Phillips Collection
Meyers has drawn intersecting geometric shapes on an archway, creating visual vibrations of movement and color. She was inspired by the brushwork and colors of Vincent Van Gogh’s Entrance to the Public Garden in Arles and The Road Menders. Part of Intersections, in which artists respond to art and spaces in the Phillips with projects of their own. Weekdays: By donation; Weekends: Included in museum admission
Categories: Exhibits
Intersections: Pulse—Tayo Heuser
The Phillips Collection
Heuser translates the luminosity of Mark Rothko’s paintings into three dimensions with a wall-mounted sculpture in the museum’s elliptical stairwell. Glowing, colored forms, crafted from handmade paper and drawn in ink, seem to float against the walls. Part of Intersections, in which artists respond to art and spaces in the Phillips with projects of their own. Weekdays: By donation; Weekends: Included in museum admission
Categories: Exhibits
Orestes, A Tragic Romp
Folger Shakespeare Library
Anne Washburn’s fresh translation/adaptation of Euripides’ classic is directed in a world premiere by Aaron Posner.
Categories: Theater
Tom Green: Accident and Intent
American University Museum at Katzen Arts Center
11:00am – 4:00pm
Tom Green has been a legendary figure in the Washington, D.C., art world for over 40 years. His paintings, drawings, watercolors, and installations somehow manage to move freely between the formal and the accidental, the iconic and the idiosyncratic, the serious and the absurd. This exhibition samples the career of this important and influential Washington artist.
Categories: Arts
Robert Devers: Cult of the Hand
American University Museum at Katzen Arts Center
11:00am – 4:00pm
This interdisciplinary exploration retraces and reimagines the influences of culture, craft, and place on the artist. Through the multicultural perspective provided by the history of maiolica glaze painting, the artist maps his own journey in the form of paintings, ceramics, and installations to offer a new translation of pattern, form, and space and to provide new perspectives of cultural infl...
Categories: Arts
Alan Feltus and Lani Irwin: Personal Interiors
American University Museum at Katzen Arts Center
11:00am – 4:00pm
This exhibition presents recent work by two artists with long associations with the AU Art Department who now live and work in Assisi, Italy. This exhibition features paintings, drawings, and collages that reveal relationships of the figure in still, intimate spaces.
Artists’ reception: Saturday, January 30, from 6–9 p.m.
Gallery talk with Alan Feltus: Saturday, January 20, at 4 p.m.
Categories: Arts
Cream: Washington Project for the Arts Art Auction Exhibition
American University Museum at Katzen Arts Center
11:00am – 4:00pm
This exhibition features work by Washington Project for the Arts (WPA) member artists, as well as national contemporary artists selected by top curators from some of the most important art institutions in the country. WPA invites contemporary art aficionados to indulge their passion for art at the WPA Art Auction Gala on Saturday, March 6, at 6 p.m. All proceeds benefit WPA programs and exhibit...
Categories: Arts
Art on Tap
J Brian's Tap Room
11:00am – 11:45pm
Showcasing the local artistic talents of PANK!'s resident finest:
Laura Honsinger
John M. Lee Jr.
Heidi Capman
Alex Russell
& More
A month long exhibition. A J. Brian's First
Categories: Arts
Anthropologist Gail Benjamin to Speak at St. Michaels Library
St. Michaels Library
12:00pm – 1:00pm
On Monday, March 1st, at noon, in the St. Michaels branch of the Talbot County Free Library, Gail Benjamin, an anthropologist who has done research in Japan on sociolinguistics and education will speak about “Lessons at Lunch”, a study of the cultural messages conveyed by the lunchtime rituals in Japanese kindergartens and elementary schools. She has taught in Japan, Israel and the United S...
Categories: Lecture
Irvine Institute for Environmental Education: Introduction to Environmental Education
Irvine Nature Center
4:30pm – 6:30pm
This course is an introduction to the field and practice of Environmental Education (EE). It surveys the history, philosophies, theories, concepts, and methods of EE as they pertain to both formal settings (schools) and informal education settings (nature centers, zoos, aquaria, science
centers, museums, etc.). Program planning, implementation, and assessment will be examined in the context of informal EE providers.
Categories: Lecture
"Adam Parker Smith: The Bad. The Bad. The Bad." Opening Reception and Exhibition
The Art Gallery at the Univeristy of Maryland
5:00pm – 7:00pm
Wednesday, January 27 through Saturday, April 3, The Art Gallery at the University of Maryland presents the exhibition The Bad. The Bad. The Bad. by internationally acclaimed artist Adam Parker Smith.
This exhibition of new works detours from Smith’s previous exhibitions, which focused on interpersonal relationships, romance, and sexuality, directing us now to reflect on, as Smith says, ...
Categories: Arts
A Deeper Look: First Kiss (Das Jahr der ersten Küsse)
Goethe-Institut Washington, the German Cultural Center
6:30pm – 8:00pm
Germany, 2003, 35mm, 94 min.,
Director: Kai Wessel, Cast: Oliver Korittke,
Maximilian Mauff, Diane Siemons-Willems
A romantic coming-of-age comedy of first love,
this is a story about a group of friends each trying
to discover their individual path. It evokes the
period of the eighties, the times of bottle parties
and slow dances.
Kai Wessel made his breakthrough with Martha
Jellneck, ...
Categories: Film
Breakthrough for a Cure
Hilton Arlington
7:00pm – 9:00pm
Hors d'oeuvres Reception and Presentation
with Dr. Eli Lewis, BGU researcher and JDRF Career Development Award Recipient
RSVP is required by February 24th
Categories: Lecture
Creative Dialogue: Internet Identity: Women In A Virtual World
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Kogod Theatre
7:00pm
When we log on to a computer network we are able to put our 'self' on line. How do women today choose to represent themselves in their online identities? Michelle Rowley from the Department of Women’s Studies moderates this discussion with Alice Marwick, one of the leading researchers in the study of internet identity, and Gesel Mason, whose new work Women, Sex & Desire: Sometimes You Feel Li...
Categories: Discussion
Patricia Smith and John Burnside
Folger Shakespeare Library
7:30pm
Smith’s Blood Dazzler, about the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, was a 2008 National Book Award Finalist. Scottish poet Burnside is the author of the award-winning collections Feast Days and The Asylum Dance.
Categories: Books & Authors
Let There Be Love
CENTERSTAGE
8:00pm
Old Alfred is sure that his country is getting taken from him. The embittered old West Indian, himself an immigrant to Britain, watches jealously while new waves of migration wash ashore. Whether fighting with his proudly feminist daughter, raging against the inexorable tide of social change, or combating his own failing health, his life is one long battle. Until a young Polish woman arrives at...
Categories: Theater
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