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When Brits just wanna have fun
Music hall, a beloved form of entertainment from centuries past, cancans into Washington
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Galleries: ‘Kaleidoscope,’ ‘Are You Gonna Eat That?’
Shows feature works by Yuriko Yamaguchi, Amy Hughes Braden, Philip Bennet and Kate Samworth.
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Hirshhorn Museum names new director
Australian-born Melissa Chiu comes to Washington from the Asia Society Museum in New York.
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Todd Gray’s Corcoran brunch moves to Equinox in July
Muse, and its popular vegan brunch, will be among the early casualties of the museum’s merger.
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The Gate: The model as the muse
A show by Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art considers the work of the model in helping create art.
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Reconstructed Williamsburg, unreconstructed boy
Philip Kennicott’s guilty “pleasure”: Finding his uncritical inner child.
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A change in visual language signals a bigger cultural shift
James McNeill Whistler’s art becomes modern at the moment he turns his back on modernity.
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Galleries: ‘Is It Propaganda? Or Is It Political Art?’
Shows include works by Eszter Bornemisza, Jarri Hasnain, Pam Rogers and Jonathan Monaghan.
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Artworks labeled degenerate in Nazi Germany are N.Y. hit
Many pieces vilified in 1937 have stood the test of time, but so have some works by artists Hitler liked.
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Diaspora: Korean percussion that resonates
Samulnori maestro Kim Duk Soo headlines a show at the Lincoln Theatre on May 30.
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Andrew Wyeth leaves viewers on the outside looking in
REVIEW | The windows that dot artist’s paintings offer no portal past the mood of grim isolation and decay.
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National Gallery of Art receives 62 pieces from Mellons
The family’s final direct donations to the museum include works by van Gogh, Monet and Seurat.
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Egypt tries to stem flood of looted antiquities
High-tech methods help, but nation seeks U.S. help to close the market.
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Portraiture show blends the abstract and the recognizable
A National Portrait Gallery exhibit showcases works featuring both the famous and the common man.
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What to see on Art Museum Day 2014
Many local museums will be offering special programs or discounted admission.
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Galleries: ‘Alive and Present,’ ‘Enduring’
Shows include works by Agniet Snoep, Katie Miller, Chris Chernow Martin Kotler and Mary Boochever.
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Diaspora: Lily Garafulic’s 100th
The Chilean Embassy gives the sculptor her due on her centennial.
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They come to bury the Corcoran, not to praise it
Legalisms and euphemisms about “collaboration” do nothing to ease the distress of a grand institution’s fall.
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Newseum highlights minority and immigrant press
Among the artifacts on display are the engraved pocket watch of Frederick Douglass and Univision press passes.
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Galleries: ‘ Alchemical Vessels,’ ‘Digital Impressions’
Shows include works by Jae Ko, Jessica Drenk, Margaret Paris, Jeff Sutton and Gordana Gerskovic.
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Sweet home art gallery
Lynyrd Skynyrd’s drummer brings his art show to two local galleries.
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A showcase of woodcuts by the first female graphic novelist
National Museum of Women in the Arts spotlights the work of Helena BochoÅ™áková-Dittrichová
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Monet brings $24 million, not enough to benefit Corcoran
Under terms of the benefactor’s will, the museum stood to make money on the sale if it exceeded $25 million.
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Nan Rosenthal, curator of modern art, dies at 76
Ms. Rosenthal was a curator of major exhibitions at the National Gallery of Art and the Metropolitan Museum.
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Peale’s ‘Mastodon’: Capturing American ambition
The painting reflects the nation’s desire to create its own history and prehistory and silence skeptics.
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Galleries: ‘un.furl,’ ‘ambi-mimetics,’ ‘A Slight Suggestion’
Shows include works by Ryan Hoover, Steve Wanna, Nancy Sansom Reynolds, Jimmy Miracle.
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Hans Hollein, Pritzker-winning architect, dies at 80
The Viennese-born Mr. Hollein blended old and new elements in his eclectic designs.
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In the Galleries: ‘Louloudi,’ ‘Atmosphere’
Shows include works by Natalie Shudt, Ben Van Dusen, Roy Kesrouani and Bobby Coleman.
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Hank’s Place, a favorite restaurant of Andrew Wyeth’s
Hank’s Place, the restaurant in the middle of Chadds Ford, Pa. where Andrew Wyeth often ate.
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Q&A with an Andrew Wyeth model
Dorothy Brinton Parker modeled numerous times for Andrew Wyeth.
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How secret were Andrew Wyeth’s Helga Pictures?
A cache of some 240 works stunned the art world when they were revealed in the mid 1980s.
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The Gate: Newseum exhibit captures year in photos
The Pictures of the Year 2013 exhibition has become an anticipated tradition at the Newseum.
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You don’t have to roam for more dinosaurs
Where to view dinosaur fossils while the Smithsonian’s Natural History Museum is close for renovations.
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Q&A with Save the Corcoran director Jayme McLellan
Group seeks to have input on what happens with the Corcoran Gallery of Art’s collection.
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In the Galleries: ‘Pure,’ ‘Sacred Spaces. Ancient Prayers.’
Shows feature works by Manuel Pandalis, Jason Hamacher, Andrei Petrov, Germaine Bonifacio and Nancy Angulo.
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NEXT could be last for the Corcoran
Thesis work of the school’s graduating class is on display through the middle of May.
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Dan Kiley’s landscapes
“The Landscape Architecture Legacy of Dan Kiley” at the National Building Museum.
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In skilled hands, politics becomes art
The untutored look of Jack Levine’s “Inauguration,” on display at the Smithsonian, belies its complexity.
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In the galleries: Glowing ‘Markings,’ attractive abstractions
“Craig Kraft: Markings” and “Abstraction: Finding the Thread” are exhibitions at VisArts at Rockville.
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Art from Italy and Brazil in two inspired D.C. exhibits
Italian Embassy hosts ‘Unanswered Prayers’; IDB Cultural Center displays Brazilian artists’ works.
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Interim Hirshhorn director to lead film academy museum
Kerry Brougher will run the forthcoming Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Museum.
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‘Art Everywhere’ campaign to celebrate American masters
The public will be asked to choose from a list of 100 major works for display in public advertorials.
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The power of a pen
See famous signatures in a new exhibition at the National Archives.
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What do you see? It all depends on how you see the world.
A controversial photograph angered some as a racist statement but amused others as mere impishness.
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In Weems’s photographs, revelation and resistance
A Guggenheim retrospective lays out the strength and weaknesses of the artist’s sometimes disturbing work.
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Planning panel fighting mad over Eisenhower Memorial
Gehry Partners has been asked to scale back the proportions of the design.
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Air and Space Museum hall begins two-year renovation
The museum will remain open during the first ever makeover for the Milestones of Flight entrance.
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National Building Museum to add Big Maze for summer
The museum will convert its Great Hall and provide an activity for visitors.
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Museums at Square One
Everybody’s got an idea for a museum, but it takes something special to get one off the ground.
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Celebrating Washington Color School
The post-expressionist movement began in D.C. in the late 1950s.
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History’s Renaissance men, in a new light
Mellon Lecturer Anthony Grafton will focus on a ‘republic of letters’ that shaped modern thought
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National Archives’ letters exhibit is a narrative of history
On display: Examples of the historic, iconic and odd — with their writers’ interesting signatures attached.
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Mason Saltarrelli’s paintings at Randall Scott Projects
‘Pages from the Neon Bible’ arrays and rearrays motifs, some with religious significance.
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Vases at the Walters: Poetic statements that hold water
These Japanese ceramic works would upstage any flowers placed inside them.
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Writing: A window into their souls
What does the historical handwriting of Frederick Douglass, Jacqueline Kennedy and Julia Child tell us?
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A haphazard ‘Modern American Realism’
The show, featuring work collected by the Sara Roby Foundation, is at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
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D.C. area galleries showcase work of local artists
Offerings appeal to wide range of tastes.
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Prince George’s and Southern Maryland Going Out Guide
A listing of events in Prince George’s County and Southern Maryland for March 13-19, 2014
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New Smithsonian leader may have outsider’s advantage
David Skorton’s fundraising success at Cornell and affinity for humanities brings hope to Institution’s future.
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Galleries: ‘Mediating Dissent,’ ‘Tingleguts’
Shows include works by Nelson Gutierrez, Gregory McLellan, Katie Runnerstrom and others.
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Phillips Collection’s ‘Made in the USA’
New exhibition makes strong case for acknowledging founder’s brilliance and generosity as a collector.
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America the unsettling: Garry Winogrand’s unique vision
REVIEW | Garry Winogrand’s photographs, on display at the National Gallery, capture a people perpetually hungry — and ultimately unsatisfied.
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Federal funds requests increased for Smithsonian, NGA
However, not all arts institutions saw their requested appropriations increase for the 2015 fiscal year.
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Snow closings and specials for Monday
Wondering which museums are closed and which bars are offering snow-day food and drink specials? We’ve got the list.
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How GWU and National Gallery ended up with Corcoran
A deal with the U-Md. started off with optimism, but eventually, gallery and school needed a takeover.
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Women now at helm at some of region’s top museums
For 13 directors, museums are no longer built with glass ceilings.
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Galleries: Marley Dawson’s burning ambition
Shows include works by Jowita Wyszomirska, J. Morrison, Nabili Hilmi and others.
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Tightening rules on the Mall leave fests in peril
Upkeep of the turf has some events moving, but others may have no where to go.
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Corcoran’s vision should outlive his gallery
The gallery’s founder believed America’s art should guide its politicians.
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The curator on exhibit
Lonnie Bunch is the public face of the African American History Museum, but his mission — that’s personal.
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Art’s new anchorage on Biscayne Bay
At the Pérez Art Museum Miami, the outside is part of the show.
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D.C. area galleries: ‘What’s Up,’ ‘Common Ground’
Shows include works by Chris Bathgate, Scott Draves, Nancy Agati, Rosa Spina and Robert Freeman.
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A timeline of the Corcoran Gallery of Art’s troubled history
The gallery and college will be taken over by the National Gallery of Art and George Washington University.
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Corcoran Gallery of Art, College to split apart
National Gallery of Art will get museum’s $2 billion collection; GWU will take over its education program.
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An end to the Corcoran as
an independent D.C. entityCOLUMN | This is not the swallowing up of the Corcoran Gallery of Art — this is the end and its final dismemberment.
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Mecanoo, Martinez + Johnson to renovate MLK Library
The choice of a Dutch firm suggests there may be complicated and painful process ahead.
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Mies’s design for MLK Library will be tough to update
Three architectural teams submit proposals for renovating and maybe expanding the D.C. library.
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Galleries: Chris Anthony evokes another Venice4
D.C. area shows are offering images from around the world.
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War-zone archaeologists restore artifacts, and optimism
Laura Tedesco’s work for State embodies the saga of saving Afghan culture amid a prolonged conflict.
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Snow day closings and specials for Thursday
We’re keeping track of what you can and cannot do with your (probable) snow day.
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The only thing we have to fear is films about art
In what can be assumed was an effort to honor heroes, ‘The Monuments Men’ only trivializes their goal
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For the Paris shows, venues as chic as the fashions
In the City of Light, the address of a couture show can say a lot about a designer’s ethos.
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‘Visions of Beauty,’ and destruction
In his day, Arnold Genthe was a famous portrait photographer, then destiny shook his world.
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At VisArts, a sampling of the potential of prints
The Old Print Gallery has a more conventional but excellent print exhibition.
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As the price of art rises, is its value plummeting?
The art world has collapsed into the world of commerce, and an almost apocalyptic level of gloom now exists.
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Defining cool, from Walt Whitman to Tony Hawk
An exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery attempts to define the ultimately subjective American trait.
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The candidates for cool
Post critics make their cases for who’s cool in the disciplines they cover.
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The man who helped get Monuments Men in spotlight
Robert M. Edsel wanted everyone to know the story of men and women who saved art from Nazis.
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Corcoran hopes to benefit from auction of Monet in May
The economically struggling gallery finds out May 6 how much of a windfall, if any, it will reap from sale.
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Galleries: ‘New Year/New Artists’ and more
Long View Gallery showcases four artists, Michael Horsely at a ‘Crossroad’ and more.
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Spring Preview: Museums
A National Gallery exhibition opening May 11 will show how the two artists influenced each other’s work.
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Spring Preview: Galleries
The best bets for the spring season, led by Artisphere’s aural “Fermata.”
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Spring Preview: Exhibits
Highlights from the upcoming season, including “Beyond Bollywood” at the National Museum of Natural History.
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Gallery opening of the week: Maya Freelon Asante
At UMD’s Stamp Gallery, a site-specific sculpture of colorful tissue paper takes shape.
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Tapas: Small bites of Spanish design
The exhibition at the former Spanish Ambassador’s residence examines the humor and humanity in culinary design.
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The art of tapas
A new exhibition explores Spanish culinary design and the elevation of food as an art form.
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Smithsonian won’t reopen Arts and Industries Building
The 133-year-old facility, closed since 2004, will not reopen after a $55 million renovation.
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Library of Congress gets Max Roach’s papers
The drummer was a prominent figure in the civil rights movement and had a cultural impact beyond jazz.
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D.C. galleries: ‘Form Transformed,’ ‘Play by Play’ and more
Shows include works by Gerald Wartofsky, Michelle Frazier, Janathel Shaw and Janelle Whisenant.
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9/11 Museum sets admission price at $24
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