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Fall Arts Preview
Our critics point to blockbuster shows, enchanting exhibitions, unexpected concerts and little-known festivals.
Fall museum preview: National Gallery of Art, Library of Congress and more Washington Project for the Arts’ “Cyber in Securities,” photos of the March on Washington, modern works and more are among the Post critics’ must-see art this fall.
Daniel J. Wilson, “9Y40,” 2013. The artist’s work is part of (e)merge , at the Capitol Skyline Hotel from Oct. 3 to 6.
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Hasan Elahi, “Hawkeye,” 2012. The work is part of the Washington Project for the Arts’ “Cyber in Securities ” exhibition, which runs through Sept. 27.
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Courtesy of Hasan Elahi and Washington Project for the Arts
Hasan Elahi, "undisclosed location," 2013. The work is part of the Washington Project for the Arts’ “Cyber In Securities ” exhibition.
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Courtesy of Hasan Elahi and Washington Project for the Arts
Students in NAACP jackets at the 1963 March on Washington. The photo is part of the Library of Congress’s “A Day Like No Other” exhibit.
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Estate of Roosevelt Carter via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
A young man stands in front of the Washington Monument holding a copy of the Washington Afro-American newspaper with the headline “They’re Pouring In From All Over,” at the March on Washington. The photo is part of the Library of Congress’s “A Day Like No Other” exhibit.
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
The March on Washington, Aug. 28, 1963. The photo is part of the Library of Congress’s “A Day Like No Other” exhibit.
Danny Lyon
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Courtesy of Edwynn Houk Gallery and Dektol. wordpress.com via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
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The Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington, a 45,000-square-foot, $100 million facility housing books, manuscripts and archival material at the Mount Vernon estate, opens to the public Sept. 27.
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Courtesy of the Fred W. Smith National Library
Barbara Chase-Riboud, “All That Rises Must Converge / Red.” 2008. Red bronze, silk, cotton and synthetic fibers. The work, part of the exhibit “Barbara Chase-Riboud: The Malcolm X Steles,” can be seen at the Philadelphia Museum of Art from Sept. 14 to Jan. 20.
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Courtesy of Barbara Chase-Riboud
Alex Prager, “Irene.” 2010. Archival pigment print. The work is from the Corcoran Gallery of Art’s “Alex Prager: Face in the Crowd,” which opens Nov. 23.
Alex Prager
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Courtesy of Alex Prager, Yancey Richardson Gallery and New York and M+B Gallery, Los Angeles
Alex Prager, “Crowd #1 (Stan Douglas)”. 2010. From the Corcoran Gallery of Art exhibit “Alex Prager: Face in the Crowd,” Archival pigment print.
Alex Prager
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Courtesy of Alex Prager, Yancey Richardson Gallery and New York and M+B Gallery, Los Angeles
Ed Ruscha, “The Los Angeles County Museum on Fire.” 1965-1968. The classic painting is at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden as part of “Damage Control: Art and Destruction Since 1950 ,” opening Oct. 24.
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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
A 1966 portrait of Julia Child by Boris Chaliapin, displayed in the National Portrait Gallery's exhibit, “Mr. Time: Portraits by Boris Chaliapin ,” which runs through Jan. 5.
Boris Chaliapin
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National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Gift of Time Magazine
Vincent Van Gogh, “Portrait of Camille Roulin,” 1888. Oil on canvas. The exhibit “Van Gogh Repetitions ” opens Oct. 12 at the Phillips Collection.
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