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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
Washington National Opera's Porgy and Bess
Kennedy Center, Opera House
WNO's critically acclaimed production, which received rave reviews in Los Angeles, Chicago and San Francisco, is back! George Gershwin melded classical music, jazz, blues, and spirituals into iconic American songs like "Summertime," "I got plenty o' nuttin'" and "Bess, you is my woman now." This quintessential American masterpiece follows the story of a crippled beggar and the headstrong woman he loves.
Categories: Theater, 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...
Pentimenti: After the Flood
American University Museum at Katzen Arts Center
10:00am – 4:00pm
Don Kimes works in media ranging from acrylic paint and digital sources to steel, clay, and wood. He contemplates painting in the context of history and time. The sources for the work included in this exhibition are the remnants of images that had documented much of his life’s work destroyed in a 2003 flood. Kimes, a professor in the art department at American University, states that he is us...
Categories: Arts
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
CausalityLabs: New Projects
American University Museum at Katzen Arts Center
11:00am – 4:00pm
Andy Holtin and Galo Moncayo, working together as CausalityLabs, create works that explore the nature of the world through a kind of mechanical theatre with humor and mimicry. Their collective works dig into materials and events to get at our notions of meaning, sequence, and cause and effect. Holtin is a professor of sculpture at American University. Moncayo is currently a member of the studio...
ANIMAR-TE: 20 years of computer animation at the University of the Balearic Islands
American University, Katzen Arts Center Museum
11:00am – 4:00pm
Organized in collaboration with the Embassy of Spain, this exhibition recognizes the work of the Digital Animation Department at the University of the Balearic Islands (Spain), an international leader in computer animation.
Artists’ reception: Tuesday, April 6, from 6–9 p.m.
For information on events associated with this exhibition, visit www.american.edu/museum
Categories: Exhibits
Pentimenti: After the Flood
American University Museum at Katzen Arts Center
11:00am – 4:00pm
Don Kimes works in media ranging from acrylic paint and digital sources to steel, clay, and wood. He contemplates painting in the context of history and time. The sources for the work included in this exhibition are the remnants of images that had documented much of his life’s work destroyed in a 2003 flood. Kimes, a professor in the art department at American University, states that he is us...
Categories: Exhibits
U.S. Marine Chamber Orchestra Concert
Rachel M. Schlesinger Concert Hall and Arts Center
2:00pm – 4:00pm
Masters of the Craft
Inspired by the contrapuntal technique of Johann Sebastian Bach, Paul Hindemith literally wrote the book on composition entitled The Craft of Musical Composition. His manual is still in print and widely used as an educational tool today. Hindemith’s Clarinet Concerto, written in his later neoclassical period, is just one of his many concerts that he systematically comp...
Categories: Free, Music: Classical, Music: Other
Voices of Terezín—An Artistic Tribute in Two Parts
Cyrus and Myrtle Katzen Arts Center - Abramson Family Recital Hall
2:00pm – 4:00pm
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
Grey Seal Puppets present A Show of Virtues
The Alden Theatre
2:00pm – 4:00pm
On Sale Sept. 9
Grey Seal Puppet Workshop
Saturday, Mar. 21 3:30 p.m
Categories: Theater
All Brahms
Music Center at Strathmore
3:00pm
Enjoy the passionate music of the great romantic
German composer Johannes Brahms. Chee-Yun
plays the riveting Violin Concerto (the original
manuscript of which resides at the Library of
Congress), created for the composer’s recital
partner and friend, Joseph Joachim. The pastoral
Symphony No. 2, composed during Brahms’s trip
to the Austrian Alps, concludes the program.
BRAHMS Hungar...
Categories: Arts, Music: Classical
Happy Birthday Bach!
National Presbyterian Church
3:00pm – 6:00pm
J.S. Bach Orchestral Suite No.1, BWV 1066
Violin Concerto No.2, BWV 1042
Prelude & Fugue in G Major, BWV 541
Sinfonia from Cantata No. 42
Brandenburg Concerto No.3, BWV 1048
In celebration of the 325th anniversary of Bach’s birth, we present a selection of his most brilliant, joyful, and best-loved works, many of which were created during the composer’s highly productiv...
Categories: Arts, Music: Classical, Music: Other
Smithsonian at Little Washington
The Theatre at little Washington
3:00pm
Harpsichordist Kenneth Slowik plays the Goldberg Variations in honor of J. S. Bach’s 325th birthday, which falls on this date. The program includes a brief discussion of the fascinating structure of the Variations. Tickets $20 adults, $5 under 18.
Categories: Music: Classical
Sunday Afternoon Waltz
Spanish Ballroom at Glen Echo Park
3:00pm – 6:00pm
Join us for a Waltz Dance in the Spanish Ballroom at Glen Echo Park on Sunday, March 21, 2010 and will feature the ensemble Laura and the Lava Lamps. This versatile band will provide a lively mix of folk waltzes with a few other couple dances, including Hambo, Schottische, Swing, Tango, and Polka. The fun begins at 3:00 p.m. with a half-hour introductory Waltz workshop followed by 2½ hours o...
Categories: Dance
Voce Chamber Singers Concert: Easy to Love
St. Timothy's Episcopal Church
3:00pm – 4:30pm
Join Voce Chamber Singers for a concert of favorite love songs by Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart, Johnny Mercer, Cole Porter and Jerome Kern, including My Funny Valentine, I’ve Got You Under My Skin, The Way You Look Tonight and many more! Enjoy delicious refreshments and an exciting Silent Auction featuring fine art, jewelry, restaurant certificates and more, all in a fun jazz club atmosphere.
Categories: Music: Other
Amadeus Harmonie
St. Francis Episcipal Church
4:00pm
Amadeus Concerts is pleased to present a concert by the Amadeus Harmonie. In the streets and salons of eighteenth century Vienna, the "harmonie" (woodwind ensemble) was a source of delight and pride. Mozart's Serenade in E-flat, K. 375 provided pleasing entertainment, and he arranged music from "Don Giovanni" so that his melodies would make a lasting impression on everyday listeners. One hun...
Categories: Music: Classical
ASO Brass Quintet Concert of favorites through the ages
The Lyceum
4:00pm – 6:00pm
Musical favorites through the ages will be performed in a free concert at the Lyceum by the Brass Quintet from the Alexandria Symphony Orchestra on Sunday, March 21 at 4 p.m. Popular 20th Century show tunes will be featured along with Renaissance, Baroque and later orchestral pieces. The Lyceum is located at 201 South Washington Street in Alexandria, Va.
Categories: Music: Classical
Norouz Around the World
Bishop Ireton High School
4:00pm – 6:00pm
Come celebrate the Persian New Year with the Nomad Dancers! Norouz Around the World celebrates the beginning of Spring through the dance traditions of Persian, Afghan, Uighur and Turkic lands. With special guest artists Olimdjon Beknazarov and Simone Verduin, along with Kardelen Turkish Dance Ensemble, Raqs Jameel, and Skyline Showstoppers, the evening will be a feast for the eye, the ear, and the soul!
Categories: Dance
"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
Symphony Lounge: Jazz Band meets Classical Orchestra
Atlas Performing Arts Center
5:00pm
It's jazz! It's classical! It's SYMPHONY LOUNGE – a unique joint venture of the Capital City Symphony and Charlie Barnett's Chaise Lounge. First, a world premier of Charlie Barnett's new orchestral work “The Tarot.” Second, full orchestrations of his jazz arrangements for Chaise Lounge and the Capital City Symphony.
TICKETS: $16-$25. Age 16 and under FREE (ticket required)
Charli...
Categories: Music: Classical, Music: Other
Choral Evensong
Christ Church, Georgetown
5:00pm – 6:00pm
Christ Church, Georgetown (31st and O Streets, N.W.) continues its Choral Evensong series on Sunday, March 21 at 5:00 p.m. with the music of Richard Ayleward, Thomas Morley, and Christoph Willibald von Gluck. gung by the professional Choir of Christ Church, this series is free and open to the public as a gift to the community. For information call 202-333-6677.
Categories: Music: Other
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.
...
Francis Poulenc Trio
Davies Memorial Unitarian Universalist Church
6:30am – 8:30pm
On March 21, the internationally acclaimed Francis Poulenc Trio will be presented. Comprised of three uniquely gifted virtuosos, Bassoonist Bryan Young, pianist Irina Lande and oboist Vladimir Lande, the trio is noted for combining 21st-century vibrancy with the best European instrumental tradition. Tickets are $12 for general admission and $5 for students for all concerts in the series.. Park...
Categories: Music: Classical
Celebrating Haydn and Handel!
St. Mark's Lutheran Church
7:00pm
The program consists of Haydn's Missa Brevis St. Joannis De Deo (Little Organ Mass) and Lord Nelson Mass; Handel's Coronation Anthem "Zadok the Priest" - all accompanied by a professional chamber orchestra. Tickets/Info available at www.northernvirginiachorale.org or call 703-239-2180. $15 advance purchase ($20 at the door); students 12-24 $10; children under 12, free.
Categories: Music: Classical, Music: Other
Springsongs
The Dennis & Phillip Ratner Museum
7:30pm – 9:30pm
“Springsongs” In Memory of Albert and Betryce Prosterman. Duets, songs, and arias for soprano and mezzo soprano (with clarinet and piano) by Brahms, Dvorak, Handel, Mozart, and Kurt Weill, including the Moravian Duets of Antonin Dvorak plus "Sports et Divertissements", 18 miniatures for piano and narrator by Erik Satie. $20 at the door, $15 students, seniors, and advance sales; children 12 ...
Categories: Music: Classical
Washington Musica Viva's Springsongs
The Dennis & Phillip Ratner Museum
7:30pm – 10:00pm
Washington Musica Viva presents Springsongs featuring duets, songs, and arias for soprano and mezzo soprano (with clarinet obbligato) by Brahms, Dvorak, Handel, Mozart, and Kurt Weill, including the Moravian Duets of Antonin Dvorak; "Sports et Divertissements" by Erik Satie. Elizabeth Kluegel, soprano, Karyn Friedman, mezzo soprano, Ben Redwine, clarinet, Leslie Prosterman, poet/narrator, and Carl Banner, piano.
Categories: Music: Classical
Spring Songs
Dennis & Phillip Ratner Museum
7:30pm – 10:00pm
In Memory of Albert and Betryce Prosterman. Duets, songs, and arias for soprano and mezzo soprano (with clarinet and piano) by Brahms, Dvorak, Handel, Mozart, and Kurt Weill, including the Moravian Duets of Antonin Dvorak; plus "Sports et Divertissements," eighteen miniatures for piano and narrator by Erik Satie. Elizabeth Kluegel, soprano, Karyn Friedman, mezzo soprano, Ben Redwine, clarinet, ...
Categories: Music: Classical
Where the Water Meets the Sky
Bus Boys and Poets
8:00pm – 10:00pm
Narrated by Morgan Freeman, Where the Water Meets the Sky is the story of a remarkable group of women in a remote region of northern Zambia, who make a film as a way to speak out about their lives and to challenge the local traditions which have, until now, kept them silent. The women shoot a film that portrays a subject of their own choosing: the plight of young women orphaned by AIDS. Their f...
Categories: Film
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
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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