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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
Ding Ren, Observations & Interventions, Main Gallery
Montpelier Arts Center
An exhibition of compelling conceptual works by a young Washington artist.
Steven Williams, Library Gallery
Montpelier Arts Center
Mixed media works with a surrealist twist by a Maryland artist. April 9 –May 28
Fatal Fantasy: La Melodia de la Calle
Sitar Center
Seventeen-year old Angel Perez, will be the first Sitar Arts Center student to receive a solo exhibition in the Sitar’s Cafritz Gallery. Fatal Fantasy: La Melodia de la Calle will showcase his work in a variety of media including painting, printmaking, and found object sculpture.
Angel Perez, a first-generation Mexican American, considers himself a Chicano artist, combining elements from ...
Categories: Arts
Urban Decay: A Carnival of Custom Vinyl and Lowbrow Art Exhibition, April 28-May 9
Workhouse Arts Center
The Workhouse will show their first pop surrealism, or “lowbrow” exhibition, Urban Decay: A Carnival of Custom Vinyl and Lowbrow Art, April 28-May 9 in Gallery W-16.
This exhibit will focus on the aesthetic of urban low-brow art: a widespread populist art movement with origins in the underground comic world, punk music, hot-rod street culture, graffiti and other subcultures. Lowbrow ar...
Categories: Arts
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
Intersections: Flurries by Regi Müller
The Phillips Collection
Müller’s work reflects her interest in maintaining a balance between chaos and order. Through random distribution of geometric shapes, she transforms the museum’s café, installing hundreds of one-inch, peach-colored urethane caps on its walls and windows.
Weekdays: by donation
Weekends: $12; $10 for students and seniors; includes admission to special exhibitions
Categories: Arts
Imagine!
Northern Virginia
Want to throw a party for your friends? Well throw a party with a purpose! Northern Virginia AIDS Ministry (NOVAM) is in need of volunteers to host parties for our annual fundraising event, IMAGINE. IMAGINE allows friends and families to join together in an effort to raise funds and awareness for NOVAM and its mission. NOVAM’s HIV prevention education programs reach over 9,000 young people e...
Categories: Charity Events, Food & Wine
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...
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
Destiny Conference
Washington Waldorf School
The Anthroposphical Society of Greater Washington presents a weekend conference Friday evening, April 30th and Saturday, May 1st at the Washington Waldorf School on the topic of Destiny. For more information contact Lark Bergwin-Anderson at 240-606-3774.
Categories: Lecture
Tracie Thoms & Friends
CENTERSTAGE
The talented Tracie Thoms, a Baltimore native and School for the Arts graduate, appeared in CENTERSTAGE’s 2007–08 First Look reading of Lynn Nottage’s By the Way, Meet Vera Stark, and the 2001–02 production of A Raisin in the Sun. Tracie is known for her recurring role on Cold Case, and recent roles in the film version of RENT and the clever but short-lived TV series Wonderfalls. Inspir...
Categories: Music: Other
Hamlet
Folger Shakespeare Library
Haunted by his father’s ghost, Hamlet seeks truth and revenge in one of Shakespeare’s greatest works.
Categories: Theater
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
Fierce Sonia's "Paper Dolls"
Art League
10:00am – 6:00pm
Fierce Sonia’s solo exhibit of new photographic/mixed media works, “Paper Dolls,” will be featured at The Art League Gallery, April 8-May 3, 2010. During the opening reception on April 8 from 6:30-8:00pm, Joe Chiocca Band will play and reunite with special guest singer Kim Kenny. This exhibit is part of the statewide event, Minds Wide Open: Virginia Celebrates Women in the Arts.
Categories: Arts
“Mindscapes” Touchstone Gallery Artists Group Exhibition
“ARTiculate Gallery” at WVSA ARTs Connection
10:00am – 6:00pm
“MINDSCAPES”
Opening Reception: Thursday, April 15, 5:30 – 7:30pm
MINDSCAPES flee the mundane--prod the memory--imagine what can (or should) be.
Touchstone gallery artists, in their exhibit “Mindscapes” at “ARTiculate Gallery”, explore landscapes of the mind in both abstract and representational ways.
Artists participating: Steve Alderton, David Alfuth, Neyla Arnas, Lind...
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
57th Annual Azalea Garden Festival
Landon School
10:00am – 5:00pm
Enjoy a fun-filled family weekend at the 57thLandon School Azalea Garden Festival on Friday, April 30 through Sunday, May 2nd on the Landon School campus, 6101 Wilson Lane, Bethesda, Maryland, just minutes from the Capital Beltway. Festival hours run from 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. daily; general admission and parking are free.
Guests can tour the Perkins Garden, packed with azaleas, then shop the ...
Categories: Fairs & Festivals
GEMA Rocks
Davis Performing Arts Center Gonda Theatre. Georgetown University
10:00pm
This 4th annual alumni concert features an amazing array of Georgetown University music talent spanning six decades. Performers will include Grammy award winner Bill Danoff (I ’68) (Take Me Home Country Roads, Afternoon Delight), platinum selling artist Walter Egan (C ’70) (Magnet and Steel), alt country artist Greta Gaines (C ’89)(L is for Loser), critically acclaimed band Honor by Augu...
Categories: Music: Other
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...
American University Art Department: Student Exhibitions
American University Museum at Katzen Arts Center
11:00am – 4:00pm
American University’s Department of Art presents work by undergraduates (March 27–April 3), MFA thesis students (April 6–25), and first-year MFA students (April 29–May 9). Join us for a display of paintings, prints, sculptures, design, and video installations that showcases our students’ talents.
Artists’ reception: Tuesday, April 6, from 6–9 p.m.
Convergence: New Art from Lebanon
American University Museum at Katzen Arts Center
11:00am – 4:00pm
This exhibition looks at contemporary art produced in the diverse and multilayered country of Lebanon. Civilizations and their armies have continually converged there over the past six millennia and created a rich and beautiful tapestry that violence periodically threatens to unravel. Contemporary artists synthesize this convergence of influences, perspectives, and conflicts to create works of ...
MFA 2010: Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition
The Art Gallery at the Univeristy of Maryland
11:00am – 4:00am
An exhibition of painting, sculpture, video, mixed media, and installation art by five Master of Fine Arts degree candidates, opens on Friday, April 23, 2010, at The Art Gallery at the University of Maryland, College Park. The exhibition will remain on view through Friday, May 21, 2010. A public opening reception will be held at The Art Gallery on Friday, April 23, 2010, from 5:30pm to 8:00pm...
Categories: Arts
Florist Fire "The Botanical Brushwork by P.A.N.K.! Art After Hours"
J Brian's Tap Room
11:00am – 11:45pm
Event Name: Florist Fire
"The Botanical Brushwork by P.A.N.K.! (PAinting At Night Kids) Art After Hours
Date: April 15th 2010 - May 15th 2010
Time: Sun - Sat 11 am - 1 am
Place: J Brian's Tap Room 200 Hanover Street, Fredericksburg, Va. 22401
Check out the website @ www.pankafterhours.info
Categories: Arts
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
Honey Class and Tasting
Alliance Francaise
11:30am – 1:00pm
Join GiraMondo for a special class and tasting on honey as we focus our attention on food and drinks other than wines for luncheon / afternoon events.
We will start our event with a quick game of honey facts and trivia. (the winner will take home a special jar of honey)
Then, We will present a number of interesting facts about honeys, including
The different types of honeys and classif...
Categories: Food & Wine
Identify
Long View Gallery
12:00pm – 5:00pm
In "Identify," Mike Weber explores concepts of commemoration and heritage, including his own lineage, as he symbolically reinvents the life stories of his unknown or forgotten subjects. He selectively edits and reframes vintage photographs, which derive from both his family’s collection and estate sales, into newly composed digital prints on canvas. This process of converting an analog photog...
Categories: Exhibits
Scattered Evidence: Excavating Antioch-on-the-Orontes
Dumbarton Oaks
2:00pm – 5:00pm
The Dumbarton Oaks Museum presents a new special exhibition: Scattered Evidence: Excavating Antioch-on-the-Orontes. The objects on display are a cross section of the discoveries made at Antioch (modern Antakya, Turkey) during the 1930s and were specially offered to Dumbarton Oaks which supported the original excavations. They reveal a wide range of aspects of life in Antioch, from monumental ar...
Categories: Exhibits
GIIP Hosts Dana Priest: "Investigating the National Security World: New Journalism for a New Age"
The University of California Washington Center
6:00pm – 9:00pm
Dana Priest is a two time Pulitzer Prize winning investigative reporter for the Washington Post. Please join us in Washington D.C. for this very special event. Seating is limited, and registration is required.
Categories: Books & Authors
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
Workhouse Film Institute: New Brow: Contemporary Underground Art
The Workhouse Arts Center
7:00pm – 10:00pm
The Workhouse Film Institute is proud to present the film New Brow: Contemporary Underground Art on Friday, April 30 at 7pm in theme with the Workhouse exhibition Urban Decay: A Carnival of Custom Vinyl and Lowbrow Art, on display in Gallery W-16 April 28-May 9.
New Brow is a film about contemporary, underground art by director/producer, Tanem Davidson and Humble Pictures in association wi...
Categories: Music: Other
The Marriage of Figaro
Kennedy Center, Opera House
7:00pm – 10:00pm
A continuation of the Figaro story and one of the most beloved works in the operatic repertoire, The Marriage of Figaro is a nearly flawless blend of music and theatricality. Count Almaviva’s palace is filled with a tangled web of love affairs: the pageboy Cherubino courts the Countess while the Count pursues the maidservant Susanna who is betrothed to the wily Figaro. Figaro is conducted wit...
Categories: Theater
Isabel Allende
Washington National Cathedral
7:30pm
An evening of readings and conversation with the celebrated Chilean-American author of The House of Spirits and The Sum of Our Days.
Categories: Books & Authors
Concert: Célia Mara, Meus Amores (Brazilian love-songs)
Embassy of Austria
7:30pm – 9:30pm
The Austrian Cultural Forum is proud to present Célia Mara (vocals, guitar) accompanied by Dieter Stemmer (piano) and Harry Tanschek (percussion) with her program “Meus Amores” (brasilian love-songs). To expect is a brazilian night full of poetry and intensive feelings. This is an acoustic, contemporary experience playing with sweet temptation and sensual seduction.
For further informat...
Categories: Music: Other
Brad Mehldau and Joshua Redman
Weinberg Center for the Arts
8:00pm – 10:00pm
Back and playing together again, join us when Brad Mehldau and Joshua Redman take the Stage at the Weinberg Center.
With Brad Mehldau on piano and Joshua Redman on tenor saxophone the audiences will be treated to two remarkable figures of contemporary jazz and “magical moments of interplay between two mesmerizing musicians.” (10th International Festival for Jazz and More)
Categories: Arts, Music: Classical
UM Symphony Orchestra: Titans
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Dekelboum Concert Hall
8:00pm
For its final concert of 2009-2010, the UMSO performs two of the most influential works in the history of orchestral music: Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, op. 67 and Hector Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique, op. 14.
Categories: Music: Classical
Ron K Brown and Evidence, A Dance Company
Sidney Harman Hall
8:00pm
You saw them in last fall’s acclaimed VelocityDC Dance Festival. Now, the Brooklyn-based Evidence performs two full-length programs featuring their signature blend of traditional African dance fused with contemporary movement and spoken word. “Brown’s choreography has zoomed to the forefront of modern dance by virtue of its exquisitely sculpted movement,” says The Washington Post. “H...
Categories: Dance
Bonnie Rideout
Wolf Trap, The Barns
8:00pm
This Scottish fiddle champion presents a program of Pibrochs, the rare and haunting solo fiddle music of Scotland. Joining her is Dr. John Purser of the BBC for a beautiful concert of music, words, and gorgeous panoramic images from the Highlands, islands, and castles of Scotland.
Categories: Music: Other
Ron Holloway Quartet
Montpelier Arts Center
8:00pm
Tenor saxophonist Holloway has remarkable flexibility and is at home playing all forms of jazz from hard bop to funk. He has a flawless reputation as a musician’s musician. Individual concert tickets ($20/ concert) on sale Tuesday, Feb. 9.
Categories: Music: Other
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
CENTERSTAGE
8:00pm
The only one of Wilson’s monumental cycle to shift scene from Pittsburgh—landing us instead in Chicago, where we find legendary monarch of the Blues, Ma Rainey, and her marvelous assemblage of less-than-merry musicians. As we wait to discover Will She or Won’t She, we learn gradually of the pitfalls and perils that lie in wait for each of these proud, ambitious artists outside the recordi...
Categories: Theater
Gilgamesh by Izumi Ashizawa
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Kogod Theatre
8:00pm – 9:30pm
Gilgamesh
conceived and directed by Izumi Ashizawa
Ancient and modern Japanese movement, masks and puppetry are fused in this avant-garde interpretation of the 4000-year-old Mesopotamian epic. As Gilgamesh hunts for the secret to eternal life, he struggles with love, power, and death in his quest for immortality.
Categories: Theater
Duke Ellington's Sophisticated Ladies
Arena Stage at the Lincoln Theatre
8:00pm
The Duke comes home to the Lincoln with Duke Ellington’s Sophisticated Ladies, the award-winning
musical revue that explores the legacy of our local jazz hero starring Broadway legend Maurice Hines. This glorious re-creation of the big band sound features some of the most memorable music from the Roaring Twenties to the Swing Era, including such classic songs as “It Don’t Mean a Thing If...
Categories: Theater
REASONS TO BE PRETTY
The Studio Theatre: Mead Theatre
8:00pm
By Neil LaBute
Neil LaBute once again takes no prisoners, tackling the taboos and unspoken truths of contemporary American life. This play concludes LaBute’s trilogy exploring America’s obsession with physical beauty, a trilogy he began with two Studio Theatre favorites, runaway hits The Shape of Things and Fat Pig. In this fiercely dark comedy, the “bad boy of American theatre” retu...
Categories: Theater
In Our Time (In unserer Zeit). Photographs by Anne Lass
Goethe Institut Washington
9:00am – 5:00pm
Opening reception
Wednesday, March 25, 6 – 8 pm
with photographer Anne Lass
RSVP to 202-289-1200 ext. 169 or rsvp@washington.goethe.org.
The places in the photos seem familiar, the people almost recognizable, the situations common, everyday. They show normality—so normal that it’s disconcerting. Where and when were the photographs taken? Who are the people in them? How are they conn...
Categories: Exhibits
Friday Night Eclectic: Cravin' Dogs
Mansion at Strathmore
9:00pm
Cravin' Dogs began as a "gonzo-folk" trio in 1986. Founding members Caldwell Gray (guitar/vocals), Lisa Venable Gray (vocals) and Tom Helf (drums) crafted a sparse brand of rock and roll that used acoustic guitar, drums and harmony-driven vocals to create a unique blend of folk, rock, '80s new wave and bluegrass. Since then Cravin' Dogs has evolved into an all-original, eclectic, rootsy, rock/p...
Categories: Music: Other
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