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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
Exhibition: 6 Abstract Women
Workhouse Arts Center
The Workhouse presents 6 Abstract Women as part of MINDS WIDE OPEN: Virginia Celebrates Women in the Arts. Well known award winning abstract artists Andrea Cybyk, Marcia Dale Dullum, Michele Hoben, Joyce McCarten, Jan Sherfy and Roberta Thole will exhibit their work in Gallery W-16. Opening March 3 - 28 please join the artists for an opening reception March 14 2 – 4pm.
Marcella Morgese, Montpelier Arts Center, Library Gallery
Montpelier Arts Center
Mixed media works by Maryland sculptor. Feb. 5- March 26
41st Annual Laurel Art Guild Open Juried Exhibition
Montpelier Arts Center
This year’s juror is Michael Janis. Open to all Maryland, Northern Virginia, and District of Columbia artists over the age of 18. March 5-28. Reception and Awards ceremony, Sunday March 7, 2-4 pm.
Sahomi Naka, New Prints, Resident Artist Gallery
Montpelier Arts Center
New works by innovative resident printmaker.
Reception, Sunday March 7, 2-4 pm.
The Art Of Living
The Textile Museum
Homes and furnishings shape the human experience of everyday life. Each culture designs domestic environments that reflect its own social traditions, aesthetic preferences, political and economic circumstances, and local climate.
The Art of Living highlights the historical and cultural breadth of The Textile Museum's collection through the display of textile furnishings, including hangings, ...
Categories: Arts
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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
Rosemary Feit Covey's "Peep and Strip Show" At The Art League Gallery
Art League
10:00am – 6:00pm
When peering through a keyhole, we consciously know we’re viewing something that wasn’t meant for our eyes, and therefore it becomes exciting and forbidden. Rosemary Feit Covey’s provocative images forces the viewer into the role of voyeur, either by demanding the viewer to observe her engravings through a peep show box, or on a photographer’s light box. Suggestive rather than overtly e...
From a Global Window: The Caribbean @ The Columbia Foundation by Denee Barr
The Columbia Foundation
10:00am – 5:00pm
From a Global Window:
The Caribbean @ The Columbia Foundation
Columbia, Maryland
12 Unique Photographs and Handmade Paper
By Denee Barr
February 3 - May 28, 2010
www.columbiafoundation.org
St. Vincent and the Grenadines are an exquisite cluster of islands located in the Eastern Caribbean between Barbados and Grenada. I discovered these islands back in the late 1980's while doing...
Categories: Exhibits
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
Jane Franklin Dance - Free Performance
Harman Center for the Arts
12:00pm – 1:00pm
March 17 at 12 noon: Happenings at Harman,
Harman Center for the Arts
610 F Street Northwest
Washington, DC 20004
FREE
Jane Franklin Dance crosses disciplines in partnership with music, media, visual artists and community participants. Named The Best Dance Company in The Washington City Paper “Best of DC 2008,” Jane Franklin Dance has earned recognition in the Washington DC metro area...
Wednesday Midday Organ Recital
St. George's Episcopal Church (Arlington)
12:30pm – 1:00pm
Organist and St. George's Music Director, Benjamin Keseley, offers a 20 minute organ recital following the church's Noon Eucharist. This recital, entitled MEDITATIONS ON THE LORD'S PRAYER, features music by North German composers, Olivier Messiaen, and Marcel Dupre.
Categories: Music: Classical
"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
Charity Pub Tonight
Historic Jordan Springs Event & Cultural Centre
6:00pm – 11:00pm
Charity Pub tonight to benefit chosen charity. $1 from every drink sold goes to local chosen charity.
Categories: Charity Events
Exotic Homeland (Exotische Heimat)
Goethe-Institut Washington, the German Cultural Center
6:00pm – 7:00pm
Germany, 2009, DigiBeta, 52 min., German with English subtitles, Director: Anne Mesecke
Exotic species are invading many corners of the world, and are conquering Germany. Faster and faster, foreign animals and plants are entering and colonizing German rivers, fields and forests. Their surprising adaptability and resilience in foreign environments disrupt and threaten well-established food cha...
Categories: Film
Community Sing
Jane Lang Recital Hall
7:00pm – 9:00pm
Singers of all ages can join our joyful Community Sings™ led by extraordinary Levine Artist-in-Residence Dr. Ysaye Maria Barnwell who will create a chorus out of whomever attends without using sheet music.
Categories: Music: Other, Other Events
The Last Giants - Oceans in Danger (The Last Giants – Wenn das Meer stirbt)
Goethe-Institut Washington, the German Cultural Center
7:15pm – 8:45pm
Germany, 2009, HD, 90 min., German with English subtitles, Director: Daniele Grieco
The Strait of Gibraltar is a unique natural paradise: in no other place on earth can you find as many whale species living in such a confined area. However, its unparalleled amount of shipping traffic, results in serious injuries to many of the whales. Ten years ago, Swiss-born fashion designer Katharina Heyer ...
Categories: Film
Carleton College Choir Concert
Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Fairfax
7:30pm – 9:00pm
The Carleton College choirs, under the direction of Lawrence E. Burnett are making a rare visit from Minnesota to perform a special concert at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Fairfax on Wednesday, March 17 at 7:30 pm. The concert is free and open to the public with donations to Habitat for Humanity welcomed. Come celebrate St. Patricks day with some beautiful choral music!
Categories: Music: Classical
Battlefield Band
Wolf Trap, The Barns
8:00pm
The kilts get their due on St. Paddy's Day as this versatile Celtic quartet treats audiences with a "wondrous, perfectly paced display by musicians firmly in command of their art" (The Washington Post).
Categories: Music: Other
Working It Out: 3 Contemporary Plays about the Workplace
CENTERSTAGE
8:00pm – 9:45pm
Work: the thing we all love to hate—until it’s gone. Three of America’s sharpest playwrights, including West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin, tackle the workplace in three wildly different ways. A mélange of contemporary pieces performed back-to-back in one event, featuring:
Hidden in this Picture by Aaron Sorkin
Washed Up on the Potomac by Lynn Rosen
Jerry & Tom by Rick Cleveland
Times ...
Categories: Theater
The Light in the Piazza at Arena Stage
Arena Stage in Crystal City
8:00pm – 11:00pm
One windy day in the Tuscan countryside, Clara loses her hat in a sudden gust, and as if guided by fate, it lands at the feet of the handsome Fabrizio. As their whirlwind courtship unfolds, Clara's mother, Margaret, is unable to conceal the family secret and must reconsider not only her daughter's future but her own as well. Arena’s Artistic Director, Molly Smith directs an intimate, chamber ...
Categories: Theater
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