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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
Irene Sylvestor, Resident Artist Gallery
Montpelier Arts Center
New works in watercolor and collage by resident artist and Montpelier instructor.
Friday, April 9, 7-9 pm, Free Public Reception for the April exhibitions.
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
A Musical Banquet: Songs for Lute, Voice, and Viol
Folger Shakespeare Library
The Consort returns to its English roots with music from A Musicall Banquet, a 1610 anthology of songs.
Categories: Music: Classical
Terrence McNally's Nights at the Opera: Master Class
Kennedy Center, Eisenhower Theater
Award-winning actress Tyne Daly stars as Maria Callas in Terrence McNally's Tony-winning Master Class, which depicts the diva reminiscing on the triumphs and tragedies of her life and career. Part of Terrence McNally's Nights at the Opera.
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...
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
A.D.O.R.E.- A Dialogue on Race and Ethnicity
Davies Memorial Unitarian Universalist Church
From the event website:
A discussion led by Unitarian Universalist Association consultant, Paula Jones from All Souls Church in DC, and Chris Bell. "We dig deep and explore, discovering things we may not have known about ourselves. If racism–anti-racism is a continuum, where are you? Are you comfortable there, or would you like to change? Is the world comfortable where you are? Come and expl...
Categories: Discussion
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
Sugarloaf Crafts Festival in Gaithersburg
Montgomery County Fairgrounds
10:00am – 6:00pm
More than 250 jury-selected artisans will display and sell their unique creations in functional and decorative pottery, sculpture, glass, jewelry, fashion, furniture and home accessories, items for the garden, and photography.
In addition to meeting the artisans producing the one-of-a kind items, visitors to the Festival will see live demonstrations by professional craftspeople working in ...
Categories: Arts, Fairs & Festivals, Other Events
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
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
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 ...
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
Historic Home Tour
Mansion at Strathmore
11:00am
Guided tour illuminating the history, architecture and personal stories of the Mansion at Strathmore.
Categories: Tours
Good Housekeeping Research Institute on Tour Presented by IKEA
National Cherry Blossom Festival
12:00pm – 6:00pm
Good Housekeeping celebrates its 125th anniversary with a tour that brings the Research Institute to life. GHRI on Tour presented by IKEA features seven interactive labs with touch-screen televisions, trivia games and sample product evaluations. While they explore the exhibit, parents can drop off their children at the “Kid’s Lab,” staffed by trained day care professionals. Visitors can e...
Categories: Exhibits
DCLX Weekend - Late Night Swing Dance
Chevy Chase Ballroom
1:00am – 5:00am
Join us for a late night Swing Dance at the Chevy Chase Ballroom on Friday, April 9, 2010 featuring Jonathan Stout and his Campus Five featuring Hilary Alexander. This septet specializes in small group swing from the late 1930’s and early 1940’s, and is one of the world’s premier swing dance bands. The Campus Five was created to be the most danceable band playing swing today, while expos...
Categories: Dance
The Business of Wine: Becoming a Wine Entrepreneur
Alliance Francaise
1:00pm – 5:00pm
Are you a wine aficionado who is thinking about making a career change in the wine industry: take a half day off and attend this unique executive seminar.
In this seminar, we will discuss and learn about the most important business trends in the wine industry as well as how you can take advantage of them. We will focus on understanding the business of wine and becoming a wine entrepreneur.
Categories: Food & Wine, Lecture
Symposium: Framing the West
Smithsonian American Art Museum
2:00pm – 7:00pm
In association with the exhibition Framing the West: The Survey Photographs of Timothy H. O'Sullivan, Issues concerning nineteenth-century western exploration, photographic practice in the post–Civil War West, wet-plate photography in the field, and the parallel tradition of landscape painting will be discussed in relation to the photographs of
Timothy H. O’Sullivan.
Curator of Photogr...
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
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.
...
The Washington Chorus' 40th Annual Dinner and Auction
National Education Association
6:00pm – 10:30pm
Featuring live and silent auctions, raffle, and musical performances, the annual dinner and auction is TWC's biggest fundraiser of the year. Proceeds benefit The Washington Chorus' education and outreach programs.
Categories: Charity Events
Opening Reception for, "Italy: A Journey Through the Layers of Time" Photographic images by Diane Epstein
Susan Calloway Fine Arts
6:00pm – 8:00pm
*Refreshments will be served
Diane Epstein, an American fine art photographer has made Italy her home since 1995. With her own innovative form of photography, she revives the large-scale narrative painting and panoramic vistas of another time, while still retaining the architectural details of today. Epstein's signature
"fresco" style of photography is created using a distinctive technique ...
Categories: Exhibits
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
New York Piano Quartet
Embassy of Austria
7:30pm – 9:30pm
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New York Piano Quartet
Metropolitan Opera Musicians
Elmira Darvarova (violin)
Ronald Carbone (viola and violin)
Samuel Magill (cello) and
Linda Hall (piano)
The New York Piano Quartet, consisting of outstanding musicians of the New York Metropolitan Opera, perform works by contemporary Austrian composers such as Erich W. Korngold and Joseph Marx.
The concert also f...
Categories: Music: Classical
Peter Pan the Musical
Carl Sandburg Middle School
7:30pm
Mount Vernon Community Children's Theatre presents its 30th anniversary production: the musical Peter Pan April 9, 10 and 17 at 7:30 and April 11,18 at 3:00 p.m. Preschool and elementary children will receive a free prize when they come dressed as their favorite character in Peter Pan. Students ages 8-18 from 23 area schools are represented. Tickets $8 students, $10 adults.
Categories: Theater, Family Oriented
Spring Dance Concert: Shifting Focus
American University, Greenberg Theater
8:00pm – 10:00pm
Melanie George, artistic director
Friday, April 9–Saturday, April 10, at 8 p.m.
Harold and Sylvia Greenberg Theatre
Tickets: $15 general admission, $10 AU community and seniors, $5 students
Our annual concert of faculty and student choreographed works, representing fresh and seasoned perspectives on contemporary and classical dance.
Categories: Dance
DCLX Weekend - Swing Dance at Glen Echo Park
Bumper Car Pavilion at Glen Echo Park
8:00pm – 12:00am
Join us for an evening of Swing Dancing in the Bumper Car Pavilion at Glen Echo Park on April 9, 2010 featuring The Boilermaker Jazz Band. This popular and energetic, nationally acclaimed, New Orleans-style swing band hails from Pittsburg, PA.
This event is part of the annual Washington DC Lindy Exchange (DCLX) weekend and open to all. The evening starts at 8 pm with a beginner swing dance...
Categories: Dance
Slide
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Gildenhorn Recital Hall
8:00pm
A concert-length music theater work, Slide is a multidisciplinary exploration of the seduction and manipulation of the American psyche. The central metaphor is a slide from an experiment, which defines every element in this (complex) drama set with music, movement and theater. Collaborators Eckert, Mackey and eighth blackbird blur the lines between composer and performer, actor and musician, mu...
Categories: Music: Other
Los Angeles Guitar Quartet: The Discovery Series
Wolf Trap, The Barns
8:00pm
Popularly known as the LAGQ, these four virtuosi bring a new energy to the concert stage with their wide-ranging programs and dynamic musical interplay.
Categories: Music: Other
American University Jazz Ensembles: Pre Bop to Post Bop
Cyrus and Myrtle Katzen Arts Center - Abramson Family Recital Hall
8:00pm – 10:00pm
Joshua Bayer, director
Noah Getz, director
Friday, April 9, at 8 p.m.
Abramson Family Recital Hall, Katzen Arts Center
Tickets: $15 regular admission, $10 AU community and seniors, $5 students
The American University Jazz Ensembles explore jazz classics and new dimensions in contemporary jazz.
Categories: Music: Other
George Winston - A Solo Piano Concert
Music Center at Strathmore
8:00pm
With just 88 keys, pianist George Winston summons worlds of sound, beguiling listeners with musical images of the seasons…rollicking rides through old New Orleans…and a jazzy skip through Charlie Brown’s neighborhood with Vince Guaraldi’s “Peanuts” pieces. “Innovative, celebrated, and accomplished, Winston is the real deal” (Toledo City Paper).
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
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
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
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: Gato & the Palenke Music Co.
Mansion at Strathmore
9:00pm
"WORTH THE DRIVE: If you missed the notice, the Mansion at Strathmore throws the best reason to trek out of the district with its Friday Night Eclectic showcase..." ~ The Washington Post Express
The Mansion at Strathmore is your new first stop of the weekend with the all-new Friday Night Eclectic series. Kick off your weekend with the best local live music the metro area has to offer. Indie ...
Categories: Music: Other
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