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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
Noon at the National Theatre
The National Theatre
12:00pm – 1:00pm
Washington author Thomas E. Crocker will discuss and sign copies of his new book, Braddock's March: How The Man Sent To Seize A Continent Changed American History. In 1755, Great Britain sent the hard-drinking, hard-driving Major General Edward Braddock, in command of the largest armed expeditionary force ever dispatched to North America, to forcibly remove France from the New World. Aided by...
Categories: Books & Authors, History, Lecture
An Eternal Form: Images of the Katsura Imperial Villa in Kyoto By Ishimoto Yasuhiro
Japan Information and Culture Center, Embassy of Japan
3:00pm – 6:30pm
Photographer Ishimoto Yasuhiro (b. 1921) is widely acknowledged as one of the most influential figures in the development of postwar Japanese photography. Among his most celebrated bodies of work, his photographs of the legendary 17th century Katsura Imperial Villa in Kyoto infuse images of the iconic structure with a New Bauhaus aesthetic. This exhibition of 50 black and white photographs pres...
Categories: Exhibits, Free, International
"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
WVSA ARTs Connection 3rd Thursday Event: “The Ghana Experience”
WVSA ARTs Connection
6:00pm – 8:00pm
WHAT: Help WVSA continue it’s upcoming 3rd Thursday by joining us in marching to the beat of your own drum at “The Ghana Experience”. Kristen Arant, a local drummer, drum teacher and founder of the Young Women's Drumming Empowerment Project (YWDEP) is planning an evening of inspiration based on her recent travels to Ghana, West Africa. Kristen's original mission for her travel spawned af...
Categories: Arts
German Wines at the Embassy of Germany
Embassy of Germany
6:30pm – 8:30pm
Join GiraMondo Wine at the Embassy of Germany to taste some of the best wines this country has to offer! We will taste some of the varietals Germany is known for including Riesling, Gewürztraminer, Silvaner, etc… We will also taste lesser known varietals such as St. Laurent, Blauer Portugieser, Spatburgunder, Scheurebe and more! We will tour the German wine regions through 10+ wines. Paired...
Categories: Food & Wine
From Spiritual to Art Song
THEARC
7:30pm – 9:00pm
This powerful performance by soprano Marilyn Moore and pianist Darya Gabay explores the African American experience from the Spiritual to the Art Song.
Categories: Arts, Music: Classical, Music: Other
Rachmaninoff's Vespers
Saint Matthew's Cathedral
7:30pm – 9:00pm
Choral Arts performs Rachmaninoff's Vespers, Op. 37 under the direction of Artistic Director Norman Scribner. Experience the haunting power of this profoundly moving masterpiece, the greatest monument in the rich tradition of Russian sacred music.
Categories: Arts, Music: Classical, Music: Other
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Vespers, Op.37
St. Matthew's Cathedral
7:30pm
Experience the haunting power of this profoundly moving masterpiece, the greatest monument in the rich tradition of Russian sacred music.
Categories: Music: Classical
Hamilton College Choir to Perform in Arlington on March 18
St. Andrew's Episcopal Church
7:30pm – 9:30pm
The Hamilton College Choir will perform in Arlington during its March Northeast tour. The Choir will perform on Thursday, March 18, at 7:30 p.m., at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, 4000 Lorcom Lane. The performance is free and open to the public.
Under the direction of G. Roberts Kolb, professor of music and director of choral music at Hamilton since 1981, the Hamilton College Choir and Coll...
Categories: Music: Other
Aftermath II -The Possible World
Duke Ellington School for the Arts
7:30pm – 7:30pm
The Duke Ellington School of the Arts spring performance, Aftermath II: The Possible World is a student written and performed piece that explores gender parity in the 21st Century and global issues concerning young women. The Ellington Theatre Ensemble writes and performs scenes that explore the ongoing challenges of women in their quest for bringing forth a Possible World. This event is a t...
Categories: Theater
Clone of WAM! (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
Atlas Performing Arts Center
8:00pm – 10:00pm
Travel through Mozart's life through music and dance in this co-production with The Washington Ballet Studio Company. A must see production that DC Theatre Scene called "an evening of over-the-top effervescence — as if a wild, warm wind has come to earth in the Atlas Theatre’s Lang auditorium."
Categories: Dance, Music: Classical
Tom Paxton
Wolf Trap, The Barns
8:00pm
The 2009 Grammy honoree for Lifetime Achievement, this American songwriting master writes and performs inspiring folk tunes.
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
Thursday Blues - Slow Blues and Swing Dancing
Back Room (East Addition) at Glen Echo Park
8:15pm – 11:30pm
Capital Blues hosts the popular Slow Blues and Swing Dance in the Back Room at Glen Echo Park (almost) every Thursday from 9 – 11:30 pm, with a 45-minute beginner lesson at 8:15 pm. We are selling out, so come early!
DJ Mike Marcotte & Guests will play a wonderful variety of styles including traditional and contemporary blues music, and classic cover tunes going back through the history o...
Categories: Dance
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