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The Gate: Harmony and tension in ‘Mysterioso’ exhibit
The works of photojournalist Jason Miccolo Johnson will be shown in two D.C. galleries.
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Commemorating Camelot’s collapse
In November, exhibits, talks and films will mark the 50th anniversary of JFK’s assassination.
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Art beyond the Beltway
Museums worth leaving the Mall for.
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For Textile Museum, a dauntingly ambitious relocation
The 88-year-old museum will move from its historic DuPont Circle home to the GWU campus.
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National Women’s History Museum seeks permanent spot
Legislation to study the museum’s feasibility has never passed both houses of Congress.
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Sequestration, the shutdown and the Smithsonian
What the fiscal drama will mean to the institution’s budget and museums.
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Corcoran sees its finances improve after rough patch
MUSEUMS IN TRANSITION | Its fortunes have changed since announcing a partnership with U-Md.
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Hirshhorn enters a season of refocus and renewal
As the museum approaches its 40th anniversary, officials focus on finding a new director and major renovations. .
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Museums in transition: National Gallery’s East Building
The gallery’s East Building will close for three years in $30 million renovation that will add exhibit space.
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National African American museum: ‘It’s going to happen’
As funds are raised and the building on the Mall rises, its founding director looks foward to fall 2015 opening.
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Without photos, a museum visit isn’t as tangible
Museum-goers prowl exhibits looking for works to capture in a snapshot — and in their memories.
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It could happen here?
Detroit has its art collection appraised by Christie’s amid fears of a fire sale.
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Motown, stop! in the name of art.
Art lovers and museum leaders nationwide fear a fire sale at the Detroit Institute of Arts.
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Galleries: ‘Silver Clouds,’ ‘The Map is Not the Territory’
D.C. area shows include works by Andy Warhol, Mona El-Bayoumi, Helen Zughaib and Victor Ekpuk.
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MoMa’s Magritte retrospective
Viewing the Belgian surrealist’s works side by side is sort of like reading a book of quotations. Clever, but . . .
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Greek prime minister shut out of art exhibit by shutdown
Federally funded museums and special exhibits are closed to visiting officials, school groups.
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Non-Smithsonian exhibits for ‘nonessential’ workers during the shutdown
Head to private collections and local galleries for a weekday diversion during the government shutdown.
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‘Mummies of the World’: Death at eye level
The exhibition at the Maryland Science Center in Baltimore tells the stories of real lives, preserved.
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Galleries: ‘Green Line’ ‘Our Lady of Perpetual Exhaustion’
D.C. area shows include works by Reem Bassous, Kanika Sircar, Helen Frankenthaler and Beth Kaminstein.
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Carrying the moon has made Russian artist a star
Leonid Tishkov appears in photo installations around the D.C. area as part of ‘Private Moon: America.’
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Art lovers descend on Capitol Skyline Hotel
Third annual (e)merge art fair comes to D.C.
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Gallery to get 250 works from Virginia Dwan
The art collector’s pledge includes works by such modern artists as Robert Smithson and Ad Reinhardt.
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Museum to return Auschwitz barracks to Poland
Barracks have been a centerpiece of U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum since it opened in 1993.
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Corcoran signs settlement with Clark estate
The museum will receive $10 million in cash and play a role in a new national arts foundation.
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Sides battling over Huguette Clark estate near settlement
The Corcoran could get $10 million, plus some proceeds from the sale of the Monet painting “Water Lilies.”
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Designing teens mingle with titans of style, tech at D.C. fair
The annual fair attracts notables in design and technology who offer encouragement and career tips.
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D.C. area gallery shows: ‘The District,’ ‘United Variations’
Featured artists include Michael Horsley, Susan Feller, Ellen Hill, Gary Kachadourian and Cecily Corcoran.
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National Postal Museum to open new stamp gallery
The interactive $18 million, 12,000-square-foot William H. Gross Stamp Gallery will open Sunday.
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Clough to leave Smithsonian secretary post in fall 2014
The institution’s top official led digitization efforts, record fundraising and the drive for a new museum.
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D.C. area gallery shows: ‘Cardboard City,’ ‘Knowing’
Shows include works by Artemis Herber, Valery Koshlyakov, Chris Bors and 19 Maryland artists.
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Museum of Women in the Arts meets $50 million goal
The institution dedicated to female artists succeeded in doubling its endowment by its 25th anniversary.
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Proposed Eisenhower memorial hits snag
Backers cancel meeting with planning commission to address issues raised in report.
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The African Americans who aided the Union
An exhibit at the National Gallery of Art will take a look at the black soldiers of a Union regiment.
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Fall museum preview: March photographs and more
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Fall gallery shows: ‘Cyber In Securities,’ ‘Silver Clouds’
Others include works by Rachel Farbiarz and Michael Francis Reagan, and the (e)merge art fair.
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Burning questions in the visual arts
How will it be after the National Gallery’s East Building closing and the Hirshhorn’s burst “Bubble”?
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‘Yes, No, Maybe’: The choices en route to the final product
Exhibit at the National Gallery shows creators’ thought processes on prints they opt to keep, discard or refine.
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Look but don’t touch
Why that seems to be Congress’s attitude toward the National Gallery of Art’s budget, a D.C. masterpiece.
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Gallery shows: ‘Abstraction,’ ‘1460 Wallmountables’
Artists include Larry Cook, Eric Gottesman, William Woodward, Werner Drewes, Adam Lister.
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Smithsonian’s e-book details its efforts to make collections digital
The institution outlines financial and technological hurdles in digitizing 14 million objects in its collections.
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D.C. gallery shows include ‘Fresh,’ ‘Great Streets,’ ‘Carte Blanche’
Offerings from Zenith Salon, Eleven Eleven Sculpture Space, Adah Rose and DC Economic Partnership.
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Guastavino and America’s Great Public Spaces
A lesson on traditional Guastavino design by the International Masonry Institute and MIT students.
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Exhibit explores Gustavino family’s structural-tile technique
Light and graceful structures have withstood the test of time.
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Leon Bakst and the Garretts: A chronology
A timeline of the work of Leon Bakst and his years in the company of Alice Warder Garrett.
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Why would a black American move to Stalinist Russia?
A heroic painting of a mysterious expatriate sheds light on a chapter of black history.
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Gallery shows from Martin Swift, Steven Cummings and others
‘Permanent Summer,’ ‘Chocolate City Rest in Peace,’ ‘Mynd Up’ and ‘Paradox of Masculinity’
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Disabled man files lawsuit against National Air and Space Museum
Plaintiff claims he was denied access to flight simulators and that he and his brother were publicly embarrassed.
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Gallery shows at Jane Haslem, Brentwood, Connersmith
”The mind / the line / the image,” “Nostalgia Structures,” “Academy 2013” and “Raising Dust.”
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Irving Penn photo exhibit planned
The Smithsonian’s American Art Museum expands its collection,
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Da Vinci notebook lands at National Air and Space Museum
Leonardo da Vinci’s “Codex on the Flight of Birds” will make its second appearance on American soil.
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Where to take local art classes, and other Got Plans? queries
The Going Out Guide staff takes your questions about adult art classes and other weekend plans.
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Gallery shows from Zukerman, Bloom, Alburger and others
‘Anatol Zukerman’s Responsible Art’; ‘From the Outside’; ‘Julia Bloom & William Alburger’; ‘Heat’
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Corcoran performance piece targets blood donation, gay rights
Artist Mary Coble seeks to draw attention to the FDA’s ban on certain gay men donating blood.
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A cathedral for art
The 10-year renovation Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum gets most things right.
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Warhol's "Silver Clouds" comes to Artisphere
Artisphere funds inflatable Warhol installation with crowdsourced campaign.
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Gallery shows from Van de Roer, Pinder, Brewer Stone and others
Aura-imaging, paintings, videos and more are on view in the D.C. area.
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Gallery shows from Van de Roer, Pinder, Brewer Stone and others
Aura-imaging, paintings, videos and more are on view in the D.C. area.
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Artist brings a smile to faces with his free artwork
Bren Bataclan is traveling the country giving away his paintings to those who promise to smile at strangers.
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National Gallery of Art acquires dozens of new works
Paintings, sculpture, drawings and photographs span the 17th to the 21st centuries.
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At Phillips Collection, cool off with Cubism
The exhibition “Georges Braque and the Cubist Still Life, 1928–1945” at the Phillips Collection.
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D.C. gallery shows from McLellan, Scharf, Artisphere, Williams, Rofi
“Jealousy of Clouds”; “Growth” and “Nothing is the Same”; “Photo/Video 13”; “Uncommon Bodies”; “Psyche.”
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The complete story of the painter of ‘The Scream’
On the 150th anniversary of Edvard Munch’s birth, Norway takes a long look back at its native son.
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Smithsonian grapples with maintenance of its inventory
Officials testify in a hearing about challenges to maintaining the massive, growing collection.
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Bursting Hirshhorn’s ‘Bubble’
Ill-fated project left a path of destruction in its wake at museum.
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The Star-Spangled Banner is being re-created for Baltimore holiday
Anyone can add a stitch to the flag, being hand-sewn at the Maryland Historical Society.
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A quartet of gallery summer group shows
“Artist-Citizen, Washington DC,” “Summer Splash II,” “Then and Now” and “Heat Wave.”
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Le Corbusier at MoMA
The love/hate relationship we have with the architect and his ideas.
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A docent’s tour wittily snakes its way through National Gallery
Bela Demeter is a snake person. And he’s turned his expertise into a compelling National Gallery tour.
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Chair of Hirshhorn Museum board of trustees announces resignation
In a strongly worded letter, Constance Caplan paints a picture of a board and institution at a crossroads.
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Galleries: John Ross and Clare Romano at the Old Print Gallery
The selection is arranged to show the New York-based artist couple’s affinities.
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‘War/Photography’ exhibition at the Corcoran
The Corcoran exhibition balances the horrors of war and the aesthetics of war photography.
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Galleries: Rosemary Feit Covey’s ‘Red Handed’ paintings
“Installation experience” at Morton Fine Art explores the hellish landscape of collective human guilt.
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Martin Luther King Jr. exhibit is brief but powerful
The National Portrait Gallery exhibit uses photos, portraits and magazine covers to tell the activist’s story.
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Audrey Niffenegger: In her words
The author and artist discusses paintings in her D.C. exhibit.
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Art galleries: Robert Kingston, excavating abstract lands
Robert Kingston’s paintings are, in a way, landscapes and construction projects, starting with one gesture.
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Exploring National Geographic
An interactive exhibit celebrates the 125 years of National Geographic magazine and the people behind it.
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‘Will to Adorn’ sizes up diverse styles of dress, identity for blacks
Smithsonian Folklife Festival exhibit examines the importance of attire to African Americans.
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‘Awake in the Dream World’
Author Audrey Niffenegger’s first show opens at the National Museum of Women in the Arts.
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Kerry James Marshall’s America
In the National Gallery’s tower, the artist explores the middle passage and the passage to middle class.
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Appreciating Oldenburg, Wesselmann
Exhibits invite rediscovery of the artists, provide a deeper glimpse of the Pop Art sensibility.
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Gehry’s Eisenhower memorial finally approved by commission
The Eisenhower Memorial Commission unanimously approved Frank Gehry’s latest project design.
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‘Extraktions’ gives order to fragments
Delaware artist Ron Meick’s work is on exhibit at Washington Printmakers Gallery.
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Art adds a little extra culture to agriculture
A seed library commissions artists to design heirloom packaging for its packets
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Exhibit: ‘Living Artfully: At Home with Marjorie Merriweather Post’
The show at Post’s Hillwood mansion lets visitors immerse themselves in the intricacies of luxurious living.
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The good fight of Faith Ringgold
In a Women in the Arts show, Ringgold’s ’60s works still challenge us to see — and celebrate — color.
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Oprah Winfrey donates $12 million to Smithsonian
Combined with previous gift, it is the Museum of African American History and Culture’s largest donation.
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Project will fill Mall with handmade bones to raise genocide awareness
Three-day installation aims to honor victims and survivors, protest global conflict
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Beneath Braque’s enigmatic surfaces, a civilized decency
A Phillips Collection exhibition surveys the French painter’s unruly, colorful and ultimately humane works.
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Issues that can’t be brushed off
At the Smithsonian’s Museum of African Art, a discussion of black women and health, hair and heritage.
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Galleries: ‘Loose Canon’
Northern Virginia artist Ethan Rochmis’s Watergate Gallery show is mainly ink drawings of horizontal lines.
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Corcoran carpet breaks world record at Sotheby’s auction
The gallery’s Clark Sickle-Leaf Carpet sells for more than $33 million, shattering expectations.
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Panel’s video promotes Eisenhower Memorial
The Eisenhower Memorial Commission introduced an online educational component to its project.
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The Phillips Collection unveils Georges Braque exhibition
The museum focuses on the French artist's still lifes, painted between 1928 and 1945.
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'Anchorman: The Exhibit' to open at Newseum in November
Memorable sets and props from the Will Ferrell film will go on display, just in time for the release of "Anchorman: The Legend Continues" in December.
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‘Anchorman: The Exhibit’ to open at Newseum in November
Interactive exhibition will include props and costumes from the 2004 cult hit, just in time for the sequel.
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Last chance to see Jeanne Silverthorne’s ‘Vanitas!’
At the Phillips Collection, contemporary rubber sculpture is paired with modernist still life.
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National Arboretum’s deep roots
With its gardens, paths and springtime azaleas, the arboretum is an urban oasis.
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‘Threads of Feeling’: Mothers’ tokens of love in 1700s Britain
Swatches left with foundlings alter ideas about parenting and everyday life in 18th-century London.
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If Smithsonian bursts the Bubble, Hirshhorn goes back to square one
Next month’s decision on the ambitious project could change the direction of the art museum.
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Sackler exhibition explores the pages of Japan’s illustrated books
“Hand Held” in part traces the evolution from Chinese-inspired nature scenes to manga images.
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