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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.
Ceramics Workshops with Mitch Lyons
Workhouse Arts Center
The Workhouse will welcome internationally acclaimed ceramic artist Mitch Lyons. Lyons clay monoprints can be found in numerous private and public collections throughout the United States, including the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Woodmere Museum, American University and the University of Delaware.
Since 1968 he has been pioneering his image making from a slab of clay and has led over 100 workshop...
Categories: Arts, Discussion, Lecture
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
Ballets and Brawls: French Music of Court and Countryside
Folger Shakespeare Library
A program of French romance and wit circa 1610, including charming French dances and songs for voice and lute
Categories: Music: Classical
10-4
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
Jumpstart your Career in the Wine Industry – An Insightful Webinar
Online- web
12:00pm – 1:30pm
Are you a wine enthusiast, aficionado? Ever dreamt of becoming a sommelier, wine shop owner or even winemaker? Do you want your passion to become your career?
This webinar is designed for individuals who are thinking of switching their career to the wine industry and provides a broad and insightful view of the industry.
Space is limited. Advanced purchase is advised.
Webinar address ...
Categories: Food & Wine, Lecture
Morehouse College Glee Club Performs at DC Public Library
Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library
12:00pm
The Morehouse College Glee Club embraces a ninety-year tradition of musical excellence. Directed by Dr. David Morrow, the Glee Club has performed around the world sharing the stage with singers like Natalie Cole, Stevie Wonder, Gloria Estefan and Trisha Yearwood. This year’s performance will include classical pieces, spirituals and traditional African songs.
Categories: Music: Other
An Eternal Form: Images of the Katsura Imperial Villa in Kyoto By Ishimoto Yasuhiro
Japan Information and Culture Center, Embassy of Japan
3:00pm – 8:00pm
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
Mirror To The World: Documentary Photography 2010
Glen Echo Park
6:00pm – 9:00pm
Photoworks Gallery @ Glen Echo Park is proud to present its 2nd Annual "Mirror to the World" exhibition of documentary photography. The show features the work of eight photographers from the DC area, working both in their neighborhoods and around the world.
Curated by photographer, author, and columnist, Frank Van Riper, the exhibit includes an eclectic mix of images and narrative styles.
...
Friday Night Follies with Doc and Chou Chou
The Carlyle Club
7:00pm – 12:00am
Celebrate the end of another week by traveling back in time with Doc and Chou Chou! Swing and sway to the rich big band sounds of Doc's Imperial Palms Orchestra and be charmed by Chou Chou, a real live pinup girl and enchanting chanteuse.
The Carlyle Club offers a sumptuous fine dining menu you won't want to miss, as well as the best cocktails around. Bring your dancing shoes - its a great f...
Categories: Music: Other
Summer at Nohant
Mead Theater Lab at Flashpoint
7:15pm – 9:45pm
A Romantic--Era Comedy in Three Acts
Celebrating the 200th Anniversary of Frederic Chopin’s birth!
Passion and turmoil permeate Nohant as Chopin composes and
the inhabitants of George Sand’s artists’ retreat fall in and out of love.
March 19 – 21, 2010 at Mead Theater Lab in FLASHPOINT
916 G St, NW, D.C. Previews: March 9 & 10 7:30PM
Thu-Sat at 7:30PM & Sat/Sun. Matinees at 2PM
TKTS: www.aticc.org/tickets
Categories: Theater
Beethoven Violin Sonatas
Atlas Performing Arts Center
7:30pm – 9:00pm
Pianist Hyeweon Lee joins National Symphony Orchestra violinist Joel Fuller in a performance of select Beethoven Sonatas.
Categories: Arts, Music: Classical
20th Century France
Washington National Cathedral
7:30pm – 9:30pm
Featuring the four Lenten motets and Mass by Poulenc and the Duruflé Requiem.
Categories: Music: Classical
20th Century France
Washington National Cathedral
7:30pm
As the church goes into its most contemplative time of the liturgical year the National Cathedral and its resident Cathedral Choral Society offers a Lenten Series of concerts that truly reflect the rich heritage of music composed for the Lenten season.
A lenten performance of two works by Poulenc and the Durufle Requiem.
Categories: Holiday, Music: Classical
Free Chamber Music Concert presented by the IBIS Chamber Music Society
Lyon Park Community Center
7:30pm – 9:30pm
The IBIS Chamber Music Society continues its exciting season with a concert entitled "20th Century (and Beyond)." But for those who quail at the idea of contemporary music, be reassured--this program of Ravel (the virtuosic Duo for Violin and Cello), Francaix (a witty quintet for harp, flute and strings) and the cheerful Serenade for Strings of Dohnanyi, will not offend the ears! The program ...
Categories: Family Oriented, Free, Music: Classical
Leo A.Lensing: Demolition Man:Karl Kraus and the “Deconstruction” of the Coffeehouse Myth
Embassy of Austria
7:30pm – 9:30pm
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Leo A. Lensing
Demolition Man: Karl Kraus and the “Deconstruction” of the Coffeehouse Myth
No other great culture is as intimately associated with the coffeehouse milieu as what has come to be known as “Vienna 1900". Karl Kraus, whom many consider the greatest satirical writer of the 20th century, undoubtedly enjoyed the sociability and intellectual exchange fostered by th...
Categories: Lecture
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
Wei Yu in Benefit Concert
Truro Church
8:00pm
The Truro Church Concert Series and George Mason University are hosting a free benefit concert at 8 pm, Friday, March 19 at Truro Church (10520 Main St. Fairfax, VA).
A member of the New York Philharmonic cello Section, Wei Yu performs a recital of works by Boccherini, Bach, Beethovern and Rachmoaninov with Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Artist pianist Keun-A lee.
A free will offering...
Categories: Charity Events, Music: Classical
Benefit Concert and Masterclass with Wei Yu, Cellist with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra
Truro Church
8:00pm – 10:00pm
Wei Yu, a member of the New York Philharmonic cello section, performs a recital of works by Boccherini, Bach, Beethoven and Rachmaninov with Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Artist pianist Keun-A Lee.
A freewill offering will be taken to support Five Talents, International in their distribution of financial training and micro-economic loans world wide.
A reception and art gallery talk by J...
Categories: Charity Events, Free, Music: Classical
Voices of Terezín—An Artistic Tribute in Two Parts
Cyrus and Myrtle Katzen Arts Center - Abramson Family Recital Hall
8:00pm – 10:00pm
Part One
American University Chamber Singers
Convery: Songs of Children
Chamber Singers presents Robert Convery’s poignant setting of nine poems authored by children interned at Terezín (Theresienstadt), a ghetto that served primarily as a gathering point for Jews destined to be shipped to Auschwitz death camp.
Part Two
Smoke of Home
Written by Zdenek Elias and Jiri Stein, transl...
Categories: Theater, Music: Classical
Antares: The Discovery Series
Wolf Trap, The Barns
8:00pm
The four virtuoso instrumentalists in Antares draw from a vast and colorful repertoire for clarinet, violin, cello, and piano, as well as all their various trio and duo combinations. Antares has "the gift of making whatever they're playing seem the most important piece in the world" (Gramophone Magazine).
Categories: Music: Other
Feelin' Groovy - A '60s Cabaret
Atlas Performing Arts Center
8:00pm – 10:00pm
The CONGRESSIONAL CHORUS presents "Feelin' Groovy," a cabaret of some of the best music of the turbulent 1960s: Motown and the Beatles; Broadway classics from Camelot to Hair; the hits of Simon & Garfinkel and the Mamas and the Papas, the songs of Bob Dylan, Joan Baez and Pete Seeger. 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and at 4 p.m. Sunday, Atlas Performing Arts Center, 1333 H St. NE, for tickets call...
Categories: Music: Other
Julie Hall & Trio
Montpelier Arts Center
8:00pm
Vocalist Julie Hall, a dynamic performer with a gift for conveying the emotion and intelligence of great lyrics and beautiful melodies, returns to Montpelier for the third time. Individual concert tickets ($20/ concert) on sale Tuesday, Feb. 9.
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
Caught In The Net
Kensington Town Hall
8:00pm – 10:30pm
The British Players present Caught In the Net, a British comedy by Ray Cooney, at the Kensington Town Hall, 3710 Mitchell Street, Kensington, MD 20895 from March 19-28, 2010. Tickets priced at $18 adults, $14 students/group. Box Office: 301-838-0042 or see our website for tickets and information: www.britishplayers.org
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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