Arts & Society

The dress code for the 42nd Annual Russian New Year’s Ball, held in the Grand Ball Room at the ...

No stranger to Washington through his collaboration with The Washington Ballet, Trey McIntyre brought members of his Boise, Idaho-based company ...

The first anniversary of the Tunisian Revolution and Arab Spring was celebrated at the Kennedy Center on Jan. 9 with ...

Guests were greeted by a bagpiper as they arrived at The Arts Club of Washington on Jan. 20 to celebrate ...

Annie Leibovitz was a 21-year-old student when her portrait of John Lennon ran on the cover of Rolling Stone in 1971. Now, for the first time in her career, she works beyond the pop culture lens with an exhibit at the American Art Museum.

Kay Jackson is a local artist whose paintings have garnered national and international acclaim. Her current exhibition at Addison/Ripley Fine art, running through March 3, continues her decades-long pursuit and calls upon the near extinct artistic tradition of gilding to help communicate her vision.

If you’ve seen Holly Twyford on stage, talked with her on the phone or during an interview at a coffee shop on 14th Street, or listened to her accept yet another Helen Hayes award for acting, there’s one constant. It’s her voice. 

For Washington antique lovers, the New Year launches with the Washington Winter Show (WWS) founded in 2009 by former Trustees ...

This Legacy Season concludes Norman Scribner’s tenure as Artistic Director of the Choral Arts Society of Washington, which he ...

Belgian Ambassador Jan Matthysen and Mrs. Matthysen recently celebrated the 20th season of the Institute for Education’s Public Policy ...

With a tongue-in-cheek invitation to “vote once, drink often,” Janet Donovan gathered media pals at chef Enzo Fargione’s newly ...

Director P.J. Paparelli often refers to the title of his new gig at the Shakespeare Theatre Company as “the two gents.” That would be “The Two Gentleman of Verona,” one of Shakespeare’s earliest works, and to Paparelli’s way of thinking, his most youthful. One way or another, you can expect that youth will be served in his production of the play.

A rundown of what's what on the horizon of Washington's theater scene. From Hedda Gabbler and Mark Rothko, to photojournalists from the Iraq war and mystic magicians, it's all happening onstage in DC.

The winter months often bring us rich and subtle experiences, opening the doors to work that might not have the opportunity to shine during the busy season. Here are some great exhibitions on the very near horizon.

For our third year running, The Georgetowner’s annual photo competition has let us reach into the community and ask our readers for their most memorable scenes of the last year. Here's a look back at Washington through the eyes of the community in 2011.

Internationally renowned jewelry designer Ann Hand hosted a holiday tea at her eponymous MacArthur Boulevard boutique Dec. 8 to celebrate ...

The University Club hosted the 22nd annual local authors night on Nov. 30. Former Secretary of Defense William Cohen and Thomas Friedman, journalist and political economist, were among the 40 authors represented.

The sixth-annual Georgetown Jingle was held at the Four Seasons Hotel on Dec. 11. The event, which benefits Georgetown University ...

You know you got a hot party going on, when the Mayor of Washington, D.C., boogies until the last ...

The Restaurant Association Metropolitan Washington (RAMW) hosted a holiday party on Nov. 28 at Watershed, which renowned restaurateurs Todd and ...

Actor Kevin Kline joined Shakespeare Theatre Company (STC) Artistic Director Michael Kahn at Sidney Harman Hall on Nov. 28 for ...

The Opera Camerata of Washington, D.C., brought an early holiday treat with the frothiest of operas under the patronage ...

The Harman Center for the Arts Annual Gala celebrated Michael Kahn’s 25 years at the helm of the Shakespeare ...

Innocents At Risk and Airline Ambassadors hosted a Standup For Children Gala: An Evening in Old Havana on Oct. 19 ...

Septime Webre is fresh.

Celebrated, influential and exceptionally charismatic, Webre has been the Artistic Director of the Washington Ballet since ...

Walking up the grand staircase of the Corcoran Gallery of Art and into the rotunda, a noose tied at the ...

Now in its 62nd year, the Salvation Army’s Women’s Auxiliary Luncheon and Fashion Show drew an elegant crowd ...

The very definition of a non-profit is the opposite of many of the motives that drive most organizations. It is ...

The Sitar Arts Center in Kalorama embodies Patricia Sitar’s vision to provide arts education to the youth of Adams ...

The Smithsonian Women’s Committee held the Craft2Wear Advance Chance Party at the National Building Museum on Oct. 21. The ...

On Oct. 14, Denise Medved, founder of the Metropolitan Cooking & Entertaining Show, and Peter Smith, Executive Chef and Proprietor of ...

The 27-year old Helen Hayes Awards have been transformed into theatreWashington, the only organization dedicated solely to promoting, representing and ...

A fetching canine proffering a red rose graced the invitation to this year’s Love Ball with the question “May ...

Take a sneak peek at what the District’s theaters have in store for this holiday season with festive productions new and old.

This fall art season has brought a number of heavy-hitting exhibits to the Washington stage. Edgar Degas’ dancers arrived en ...

In a time when everyone is seen as being passionate about something, be it ever so trivial, it’s not ...

“Parade” (now at Ford’s Theatre through Oct. 30) sounds like a musical, it pretends to be a musical, it ...

As geniuses tend to be, Edgar Degas was a compulsive revisionist. Returning to his canvases again and again, often over the course of decades, the artist left behind a wealth of visual pathways into his process upon his death in 1917.

On Sept. 11, there was a respite in a day of remembrance as Thai Ambassador and Ms. Nuchjaree Klongsungsorn welcomed ...

Sister Foundation co-hosted an international heart-healthy luncheon at the World Bank with the Embassy of Hungary and the Royal Danish ...

Having lost her mother Pat to late diagnosed lung cancer, Andrea Stern Ferris was determined to find a cure for ...

The International Eye Foundation celebrated its golden anniversary Sept. 18 at an Ambassadors Wine Tasting, hosted by Dr. and Mrs ...

There are certain images that come to mind when you think of classical music, and pianist Till Fellner, a rising ...

Hemphill Fine Arts Models of Freedom

Contemporary Russian art is not usually an uplifting experience. Decades of social and political ...

Here is a list of some of the District’s most anticipated gallery offerings this season. Go experience it for yourself. Go stand in front of a painting on a crisp autumn evening with a glass of free wine in one hand and a hunk of stinky cheese in the other. I dare you not to feel alive.

Washington experienced a wrenching and rare one-two weather punch in one week — an unprecedented earthquake followed by a hurricane. The ...

Fashion for Paws’ Tara de Nicholas and Jayne Sandman teamed up at Nectar Skin Bar and on Aug. 24 for ...

The opening of Opera Ultra Lounge.

A reception in honor of Amb. Andrew Young and Mrs. Carolyn Young on the occasion of the dedication of the ...

If color is a language, then John Blee can be considered a lyric poet. The Washington painter, whose solo exhibition ...

The visual arts are the quiet arts, the arts of contemplation, the finished art.

When we see a painting in ...

When Arena Stage brought back its hugely successful season and theater opening production of the very-much-a-staple Rodger Hammerstein musical “Oklahoma ...

As a prelude to a day-long forum at the Capitol Visitor Center where policy makers and academics discussed how our ...

Beating Washington’s killer heat was made easier on Aug. 4 as enthusiastic guests flocked to Morton’s in Georgetown ...

Kate Michael, online magazine founder of K Street Kate, celebrated the fifth birthday of her D.C. lifestyle blog, July ...

When the rain came in the middle of dinner, as predicted, few fled the covered patio, getting splashed nonetheless, for ...

History surrounds us in Washington, politics is the humidity of our daily lives as much as suffocating temperatures and the ...

Oklahoma is not the only play enjoying a return visit this season. Constellation Theatre Company is bringing back Ramayana based ...

On July 17, supporters of the Washington Animal Rescue League (WARL) raised their glasses as Board Chair Roger Marmet hosted ...

Amy and Brian Thomas held a cocktail reception on July 12 to introduce their new Georgetown beauty emporium. Guests toured ...

Oklahoma is not the only play enjoying a return visit this season. Constellation Theatre Company is bringing back Ramayana based ...

If you live here, you’ve probably visited all the major monuments on the mall, and maybe a few of the galleries. It can be easy to take so many great resources for granted, though. Cruise through the National Mall on Duck Boat or Segway, or get up close and personal with hundreds of butterflies and other insects at the National Museum of American History.