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May 22, 2012 | WDC: 78.8 °F
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Mementos: Painted and Photographic Miniatures, 1750–1920
Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery
June 17 through May 13, 2012
The word “miniature” was originally associated with the creation of small images and portraits. Tiny, often expensive likenesses—requiring a highly trained artist with good eyesight and a steady hand—were often made as mementos, love tokens or memorials that could be kept close to the body. Their carefully worked metal housings were often bracelets, pendant...
Categories: Arts
One Life: Ronald Reagan
Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery
July 1 through May 28, 2012
The Portrait Gallery will observe the centennial of the fortieth president’s birthday with a one- room exhibition chronicling Ronald Reagan’s early years in Illinois through his acting and political career, to his presidency from 1981-1989. This exhibition has been funded by the Guenther and Siewchin Yong Sommer Endowment Fund.
Categories: Arts
150th Commemoration of the Civil War: The Death of Ellsworth
Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery
Through March 18, 2012
The National Portrait Gallery, housed in a former Civil War hospital, will mark the 150th anniversary of the war through four alcove exhibitions.
The opening exhibition recounts the life and death of Col. Elmer E. Ellsworth (1837–1861), the first Union officer to be killed in the Civil War. A friend of President Abraham Lincoln, Ellsworth—who died at the hands of ...
Categories: Arts
Weaving Abstraction: Kuba Textiles and the Woven Art of Central Africa
The Textile Museum
The textiles of the Kuba kingdom are among the most distinctive and spectacular works of African art. Emerging in the early 17th century, the Kuba kingdom grew into a powerful and wealthy confederation of 18 different ethnic groups located in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo. While they have fascinated artists, collectors and designers for over a century, this will be the first majo...
A Palette of Paper - the Collages of Megan Coyle
Center for the Arts/Caton Merchant Family Gallery
Artist talk: Saturday, February 18th at 1:00p.m.
If you can imagine how scissors plying through everyday magazines can give an outcome of surprising and masterful art, then you might imagine the incredible collages of Megan Coyle. Working in classic art genres, Megan breaks down her images piece by piece, evolving them from bits of magazines into whole new, amazing compositions.
Winter Museum Exhibitions Open at American University Museum
American University Museum at Katzen Arts Center
Winter Museum Exhibitions Open
American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center
Admission is free.
Begin January 28, 2012
Kids@Katzen: The Photographic Life
Photographs by Kids@Katzen participants inspired by museum exhibitions.
Raoul Middleman: City Limits
His nudes are not pretty— they are sagging, dimpled, and real. His cityscapes reveal the underbelly of post-industrial ...
Amy Hughes Braden: Too Extroverted to Paint
Artisphere
Amy Hughes Braden: Too Extroverted to Paint
Through Sun Mar 11/ Free / Works In Progress Gallery
Artist’s onsite residency hours: Fri 4-8pm, Sat 1-7pm, Sun 1-5pm, excluding Feb 10 -12.
Plagued by the need for human interaction, stuck in a world of tweets and tags, Amy Hughes Braden will paint large portraits of “tweens” working towards her 2013 show in Artisphere’s Mezz Gallery. A...
Categories: Arts, Exhibits, Family Oriented
Everitt Clark: Night and Day: The Suburbs of Northern Virginia
Artisphere
Everitt Clark: Night and Day: The Suburbs of Northern Virginia
Wed Feb 1 - Sat Mar 31/ Free / Mezz Gallery
Opening Reception/Artist’s Talk: Thu Feb 2 / 5:30-7:30pm (Artist talk with Cynthia Connolly, Visual Arts Curator at 6pm) / Free
In two recent series of photographs—one taken during the day, the other at night — Everitt Clark has uncovered the beauty of Northern Virginia's suburba...
Virginia Opera - "Orphée" by Philip Glass
George Mason University Center for the Arts
The Virginia Opera brings the Virginia Premiere of Philip Glass’s Orphée to the stage this spring! Based on Jean Cocteau’s stunning cinematic reimagining of the myth of Orpheus and Euridice, this romantic, surrealistic tale explores themes of sacrificing love for art, love transcending death and the immortality of art. Set in Paris, Orphée is a famous, but misunderstood poet who falls for...
Categories: Music: Classical
Gene Kelly Centennial Retrospective
AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center
Electric, athletic and always inventive, Gene Kelly defined the Golden Age of the movie musical as a triple threat: actor, choreographer and director. Celebrate the screen icon's centenary year with a retrospective of his most beloved films at the AFI Silver.
Highlights include the 1952 movie-musical classic, SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN, which follows Kelly and Jean Hagen as silent film stars who...
Categories: Dance, Film, Music: Other
LEGO® Architecture: Towering Ambition
National Building Museum
LEGO® Architecture: Towering Ambition through September 3, 2012
LEGO® Architecture: Towering Ambition features 15 LEGO® models built by LEGO® certified professional Adam Reed Tucker. The buildings and structures that Tucker has assembled are some of the most recognizable works of architecture in the world, including the Empire State Building, Burj Khalifa, and the World Trade Center.
Admi...
Categories: Exhibits
Investigating Where We Live
National Building Museum
Investigating Where We Live
July 30, 2011 to May 15, 2012
Opening Reception July 29, 6:30 – 8:30 pm. Free . No registration required.
Investigating Where We Live presents students’ interpretations of D.C. neighborhoods through photography, writing, and original artwork. This year’s participants explored Bloomingdale, the H Street Corridor, and Mount Pleasant.
Major funding for Inves...
Categories: Exhibits
Cityscapes Revealed: Highlights from the Collection
National Building Museum
Cityscapes Revealed: Highlights from the Collection, long-term
This survey of the permanent collection explores America’s architectural heritage through exquisitely detailed drawings; antique building toys; rare, early 20th-century photographs; and original building fragments from national historic landmarks.
Cityscapes Revealed: Highlights from the Collection is made possible by the Trust...
Categories: Exhibits
Washington: Symbol and City
National Building Museum
Washington: Symbol and City, long-term
Discover how the built environment of Washington, D.C. reflects the complex relationship between its role as a national symbol and seat of government and its day-to-day life as an evolving municipality.
Exhibition Tours: Thursday–Sunday at 2:30 pm (based on docent availability)
Washington: Symbol and City is made possible by The Morris and Gwendo...
Categories: Exhibits
Building Zone
National Building Museum
Building Zone long-term
Monday through Saturday: 10:00am - 4:00 pm; Sunday: 11:00 am - 4:00 pm
Ages 2-6 with adult supervision
The Building Zone introduces children to the building arts through play in an interactive gallery of hands-on activities for the Museum's youngest visitors.
The National Building Museum gratefully acknowledges The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation for its su...
Categories: Family Oriented
AFI Silver’s Screen Valentines: Great Movie Romances
AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center
February 3 through March 7, AFI Silver will celebrate love all month long with screenings of some of the great movie romances of all time. Ranging from old Hollywood classics to quirky romantic comedies of today, the showcase will have something for everyone.
Highlights include THE AWFUL TRUTH, starring Cary Grant and Irene Dune as a divorcing couple both guilty of wandering ways; the 1980...
Categories: Film
The Gaming Table
Folger Shakespeare Library
By Suzanne Centlivre
Directed by Eleanor Holdrige
The thrills of the gaming table stylishly play out against the eccentricities of English manners in this handsome comedy. Lady Reveller, an independent widow with a penchant for gambling, leads a nightly card game, which bankrupts some and entertains all.
Categories: Theater
Washington Savoyards All Stars --40th Anniversay Celebration!
The Atlas Performing Arts Center
Washington Savoyards All Stars will feature the artists and music that showcases the range of the Company’s talent and repertoire. There will be four performances and the performance on Saturday evening the 11th will be the highlight of a special Savoyards birthday party with friends and supporters. Jane Lang and Nancy Peery Marriott are the honorary co-chairs.
Produced and directed by N. T...
Categories: Theater
Les Justes (The Just Ones)
Artisphere
by Albert Camus
Translated and Adapated by Rahaleh Nassri
Directed by Jay Hardee
Following Henry (I)V, we return to the work of another favorite author, Albert Camus (some of you may remember our recent production of his Caligula), as we present a new adaptation of his eerily relevant exploration of politically-motivated violence, Les Justes. Rahaleh Nassri, who has acted in WSC production...
Categories: Theater
"Red" at Arena Stage
Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater
A co-production with Goodman Theatre
Written by John Logan
Directed by Tony award winner Robert Falls
In the Kreeger Theater
January 20-March 4, 2012
A visceral, “superbly taut” (Chicago Tribune) battle of wills, Red (winner of six Tony awards, including Best Play) drops you squarely inside the world of painter Mark Rothko and sets your heart pounding. At the height of his career, Ro...
Categories: Other Events
Meet Benjamin Franklin and Franklin’s Glass Armonica
The National Archives Building
10:00am – 2:00pm
In celebration of our new exhibit Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better World opening today, we invite you to chat with Benjamin Franklin about his life and accomplishments as well as listen to Cecilia Brauer play the armonica, a musical instrument invented by Franklin, which is played by rubbing damp fingers along the rims of glass bowls.
Categories: Arts, History, Music: Other
Rivers and Memories
Brentwood Arts Exchange
10:00am – 7:00pm
The artwork of long-time local prominent artists E.J Montgomery and Lilian Thomas Burwell will be on display at the Brentwood Arts Exchange from January 30 – March 24 2012. The exhibition titled Rivers and Memories features the artists’ highly developed explorations into the expressive potential of color and space. Visually engaging, the exhibition’s two dimensional and three dimensional ...
Brentwood Arts Exchange Front Window Featured Artist: Susan O'Brien
Brentwood Arts Exchange
10:00am – 7:00am
The artwork of ceramicist Susan O'Brien will be highlighted in the Brentwood Arts Exchange's (BAE) Craft Showcase throughout February and March, 2012. Ms. O'Brien's work, which combines ornamentation, function and a playful sense of humor, is informed by the history and evolution of dining wares and rituals. Sources such as eighteenth-century silver, Faberge' eggs, architecture, European cerami...
When The House Burns Down - Photography Exhibition by Deborah Lash
George Mason University, Gallery 123
10:00am – 8:00pm
“When The House Burns Down”, a solo photography exhibition by artist Deborah Lash, follows two children throughout the summer in an empty world devoid of people and possessions. Presented by GMU's African and African American Studies and the School of Art as part of February's Black History Month, the exhibition explores the texture and nuance of intimate relationships formed regardless of ...
Dandy Lion: Articulating a Re(de)fined Black Masculine Identity
Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture
10:00am – 5:00pm
January 29 – May 13, 2012
Twenty emerging photographers and filmmakers present refreshing images of young black men who challenge popular notions of urban black masculinity. Guest curated by Shantrelle P. Lewis.
Categories: Exhibits
Wood, Paper, & Fiber Exhibtion
The Art Gallery at the Univeristy of Maryland
11:00am – 4:00pm
The Art Gallery and the Department of Art at the University of Maryland present Wood, Paper, & Fiber, a transformative exhibition of regional, national and international contemporary artists working with some of art's most basic materials to create sculptural objects that transcend their elements and captivate the viewer. The exhibition features works of art by artists Ben Butler, Chris Gilmour...
The Black List: Photographs by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery
11:30am – 7:00pm
Oct. 28 through April 22, 2012
Historically, “blacklist” denotes a group of people marginalized and denied work or social
approval. In an effort to redefine the word, these fifty African Americans provide insight on the
struggles, triumphs and joys of black life in the United States. The portraits are both pictorial and
verbal, representing some of the most dynamic and inspiring persona...
Categories: Arts
Love, Politics & Scrabble: The Games People Play
The Del Ray Artisans Gallery
12:00pm – 6:00pm
“Love, Politics & Scrabble: The Games People Play” promises to bring fun and games to the Del Ray Artisans’ gallery beginning with the opening reception on Friday, February 3, 2012, from 7 to 10 pm. This juried exhibit invited artists to depict any of the numerous games people play throughout life.
In conjunction with the show, the gallery is housing a fine art and fine craft Marketpl...
Gallery B February Exhibition
Gallery B
12:00pm – 6:00pm
Gallery B is pleased to present its February 2012 exhibition featuring local artists Shelva Gallman, Kevin Gonzalez, Richard Levine and Sandra Jensen-Taubman. The exhibit will feature landscape painting and photography, will be on display from February 8 – March 3 at Gallery B, located at 7700 Wisconsin Avenue, Suite E, Bethesda, MD. The opening reception will be held on Friday, February 10,...
Categories: Arts
Films: Le Mystère Picasso
National Gallery of Art
12:30pm
Le Mystère Picasso
February 8 at 2:30PM
February 9, 10 at 12:30PM
East Building Concourse, Auditorium
Three screenings of the classic 1956 film by Clouzot—an imaginative homage to his friend Picasso as the maestro paints before the camera—are presented in association with the exhibition Picasso's Drawings, 1890–1921: Reinventing Tradition. (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1956, 35 mm, French with subtitles, 78 minutes)
Categories: Film
Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better World
The National Archives Building
7:00pm – 8:30pm
Benjamin Franklin is one of our most remarkable Americans. Join us as panelists Walter Isaacson, Stacey Schiff, and
H. W. Brands as they discuss this extraordinary Founding Father. Book signings will follow the program.
Categories: Books & Authors, Discussion, History
Noche Musical
Church of the Holy City
7:00pm – 9:00pm
On February 10th, world-renowned classical guitarist Ernesto Tamayo is performing a benefit concert for Mary’s Center Teen Program at the historical Church of the Holy City, 16th Street NW, Washington, DC, which was dedicated in 1896, and we hope you will join us. Ernesto’s first concert at Carnegie Hall in September, 1999 was sold out, we at Mary’s Center are so proud to share this unique experience with the DC Metro Area.
Categories: Music: Classical
concert | Viktoria Loukianetz & Marianna Humetska
Embassy of Austria | 3524 International Court NW | Washington DC 20008
7:30pm – 9:00pm
Victoria Loukianetz was born in Kiev and started her musical education already at the age of 5, taking piano lessons. In 1993, she debuted at the Bolshoi Theater. In 1990, she was honored with the first prize at the international singing competition Min-On in Tokyo. In 1991, she received the first prize of the international Mozart-Wettbewerb in Vienna. From 1993 until 2000 she was a member of ...
Categories: Music: Classical
Champagne & Strings: Bach Partitas for Solo Violin
Lyon Park Community Center
7:30pm – 9:30pm
This Champagne & Strings concert is a fundraising event for the renovation of the Lyon Park Community Center. ALL proceeds from this concert go directly to the renovation fund.
The program features Joseph Scheer, concertmaster of the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra, performing solo violin partitas by Bach. These masterworks firmly established the technical capability of the violin as a s...
Categories: Family Oriented, Music: Classical, Other Events
Friday Night Contra Dance At Glen Echo Park
Spanish Ballroom at Glen Echo Park
7:30pm – 11:30pm
Come dance in the historic Spanish Ballroom at Glen Echo Park. Come to the lesson that starts at 7:30 and then dance for three hours afterward.
Cost is $9
Categories: Dance
Contradiction Dance performs The Present
Joe's Movement Emporium
8:00pm
Contradiction Dance will perform the audience-favorite production, The Present. Premiered in October 2011, The Present delighted audience members of all ages with its exploration of joy, energy and vulnerability. With ten dancers and one spoken word artist, the performance is structured in that no dancer leaves the stage for the 65-minute run of the show. The interactions that therefore develop...
Categories: Arts, Dance, Family Oriented
Marie Antoinette the Film
Artisphere
8:00pm
Marie Antoinette
Fri Feb 10 / 8pm / $6 / Dome Theatre
Written and directed by Sofia Coppola / Starring Kirsten Dunst
The retelling of France's iconic but ill-fated queen, Marie Antoinette. From her betrothal and marriage to Louis XVI at 15 to her reign as queen at 19 and to the end of her reign as queen and ultimately the fall of Versailles.
Categories: Film
Ana en el trópico/Anna in the Tropics
GALA Hispanic Theatre
8:00pm
The arrival of a new “lector” at a 1929 Cuban cigar factory in Ybor City,
Florida becomes a catalyst amongst the workers. As the “Lector” begins
to read from Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, forbidden passions are unleashed
in this Pultizer prize winning play about the transformative power of art in a landscape that pits old traditions against changing economic realities. In Spanish with English surtitles.
Categories: Theater
Lovers: An entertaining stand up sitcom about relationships
Casa De La Luna
8:00pm – 10:00pm
Theater
Spotlight Comunicaciones Presents
Lovers
February 1-15; Nightly show times: 8 pm and Sunday: 4:30 pm; No Monday show
Casa de La Luna
4020 Georgia Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
20011
Tickets
$15 online advance
$20 at the door
Buy now: https://www.boxofficetickets.com/go/event?id=170565
Box office line: (571) 921-5825
Spotlight Comunicaciones continues its 2012 theater...
Categories: Theater
Media That Matters 2012
American University Katzen Arts Center
9:00am – 5:00pm
Media That Matters is an annual 2-day conference that brings together professionals, artists and students interested in making an impact through media. The Media That Matters conference is a joint project of The Center for Social Media and Arts Engine, Inc. We not only provide a platform to showcase a year's accomplishments in using media for social good, but also encourage conversation and exp...
Categories: Lecture, Other Events
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