Art Wrap

There is more to see as spring rears its head than most people can take in, artistically speaking, let alone ...

There is more to see as spring rears its head than most people can take in, artistically speaking, let alone ...

If you wanted diversity in the theater and in theater awards, then that’s what you got at the 29th ...

Sloans and Kenyon Auction Date: April 20 and 21 
More than 1,000 lots of American & European furniture, decorative arts ...

The more distant the recent past becomes, the more it tends to appear in our immediate rear view mirrors.

In ...

Hillyer Art Gallery 9 Hillyer Court, NW www.ArtsAndArtists.org

Through March 29, Hillyer Art Space is hosting three exhibitions ...

We are lucky that lovers of the performing arts have so many venues to choose from, especially for outdoor concerts ...

STILL HERE,
BUT NOT FOR LONG Here are our selections of some eclectic, shouldn’t-miss offerings now at local theaters ...

Wolf Trap Helen Reddy, March 7 & 8
 Catie Curtis, March 28
 John Eaton, March 30
 A Prairie Home Companion, May ...

Two weeks before show time, the Environmental Film Festival's office on 31st Street NW is a place of quiet ...

The opening reception of "Pump Me Up: D.C. Subculture of the 1980s" celebrated D.C.'s graffiti, Go-Go and hardcore punk scenes at the Corcoran Gallery of Art this Feb. 22.

Hamiltonian Gallery 1353 U St., NW www.HamiltonianGallery.com Hamiltonian Fellows Jerry Truong and 
Annette Isham are two artists that ...

The Round House Theatre in Bethesda, Md., isn’t a huge, cavernous space. It’s both modern and inviting, a ...

Occasionally, an art gallery comes along that helps define a neighborhood’s culture. When Norman Parish saw a “Gallery Space ...

PISSARRO ON PAPER Through March 31 The renowned French Impressionist Camille Pissarro is best remembered for his striking atmospheric landscape ...

Zach Appelman is a lot of things.

He’s a native Californian, an actor, and a onetime student. He’s ...

Each month, interior designer Cynthia Reed and style-savvy publisher Sonya Bernhardt will collaborate on a window of inspiration, while celebrating ...

As 2013 rears its flu-riddled head, weary from a long year of bitter political standoffs and tempestuous clashes of conflicting ...

Over thousands of years, portraiture has taken on a history and life of its own. In Egypt and other ancient ...

"The Photographs of Frank Hurley" From the Antarctic Remain at the Ralls Collection Through Dec. 15.

On May 12, 2008, an earthquake devas- tated the Sichuan province of central China, and more than 5,000 children ...

Non- Holiday Winter Arts Preview

A legendary Washington artist's work is on display.

There is an exacting notion of displacement that permeates the current work of artist Taryn Simon, on display at the ...

Weschler ’s Bronze Eiffel Tower Clock Auction Date: December 7 Estimate: $1,000 – 2,000

Washington D.C.’s only ...

Since it first opened its doors in 1921, the Phillips Collection has been revered as a pioneer in contemporary art ...

For centuries, auctions and estate sales have been used to establish the value of artifacts, artworks, artists, and items of ...

The first flecks of yellow are dotting the trees around Washington, a seasonal indicator that, among other things, signals the ...

Unique things are happening in Georgetown’s gallery community. From microscopic sculptures, to affordable contemporary art sales, to themed shows ...

The American cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead was a keen observer of the riches of modern city life. She spoke of ...

Through the end of September, the Corcoran Gallery of Art is hosting “Richard Diebenkorn: The Ocean Park Series,” a retrospective of the artist’s landmark series made between 1967 and 1988, which marks the first major museum exhibition focused on these luminous, grid-like paintings.

Art Metamorphosis Gala was a great success with over 3500 attendees in attendance including DC Mayor Vincent C. Gray.

For ...

In Washington, there might not be a more accommodating neighborhood for contemporary visual art than Dupont Circle. It started as ...

Each summer between Memorial Day and Labor Day, the Corcoran Gallery of Art drops its admission fees on Saturdays, offering their impressive and engaging collection to the community.

the Hirshhorn isn’t lacking for new outdoor installations, and neither is the National Museum of Women in the Arts. And now is just the right time of year to be outside and experience them.

Washington has its own culture —and it’s not just the whole center-of-the world, seat-of-government thing. It’s about music ...

Picture the statues of soldiers at the Korean War Memorial. Nineteen stainless steel troops, each one a modest giant over ...

The works of Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai have matured into icons of world art, most famously his woodblock prints of Mount Fuji. Through June 17 2012, the Sackler Gallery is exhibiting the full collection these original prints, showcasing the intricate beauty, intimacy and grandiosity of these masterworks.

When taking on the art of an unfamiliar cultural tradition, it’s difficult to know where to start. There are ...

Two Shrews, a mock Shakespeare trial, Sinatra and a tango or two, O’Neill still running strong and Arias with ...

Canal Square and Beyond

Nestled in a brick courtyard at M and 31st Streets, walking into Canal Square on the ...

The National Gallery of Art has announced the launch today of NGA Images, a new online resource that revolutionizes the way the public may interact with its world-class collection.

"Civic Pride: Dutch Group Portraits from Amsterdam" is now on view at the National Gallery of Art. The special installation involves two large-scale group portraits, rarely seen outside the Netherlands.

Bill Adair is among a small handful of international authorities on frame fabrication, conservation and the nearly extinct art of gilding. He has employed his expertise extensively with every major museum in the city and consults with gallerists, architectural firms and private collectors throughout the world. His eyes look not into a work of art from the outside, but out from the artwork into the world it reflects.

Just a few blocks from the Dupont Circle and McPherson Square Metro stations, the art galleries around 14th Street, between ...

The Georgetown galleries on Book Hill are one of the few remaining true gallery clusters in the city. This group of galleries offers us a great variety of works to explore, from renowned glasswork to classic landscapes and the contemporary and avant-garde.

“Snapshots: Painters and Photography, Bonnard to Vuillard,” the newest exhibit at The Phillips Collection, deals extensively with the Post-Impressionists, rethinking the movement and redefining everything in its wake.

After two years of renovation, the National Gallery of Art will reopen its galleries devoted to impressionism and post-impressionism to the public on Saturday, Jan. 28. Housed in the west building of the gallery, the installation displays some of the greatest paintings by Manet, Monet, Renoir, Cézanne, Van Gogh and Gauguin on view anywhere.

Pablo Picasso was a master draftsman. Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione paved the road to Impressionism. And at last, we have our French galleries back, offering a renewed showcase for the Chester Dale Collection. And it's all at the National Gallery of Art.

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.

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.

Georgetown’s gallery scene is a lot like the neighborhood itself: contemporary but historic, friendly and intelligent, beautiful and resonant ...

By Adrian Loving

Miami, Fla. – recently, scores of Washington, D.C., curators, collectors, dealers, artists and art enthusiasts descended on ...

Needless to say, the holidays are upon us—the season of giving. And to declare that a work of art ...

An art professor once gave me a great piece of advice: “Whenever you look at a work of art,” he ...

In the pictorial lexicon of American history, there is perhaps no image more potent and quixotic than the archetype of ...

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

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 ...

Since its inception, photography has been a fusion between science and the creative eye. The first permanent photograph was produced ...

The current crop of digital cameras puts enormous power in your hands, but you have to know how to use ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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

In just two decades, the street formerly dubbed “auto row” has been reborn as the Fourteenth Street Arts Corridor – a hip, fun stretch of road lined with trendy boutiques, cute restaurants and of course, art galleries exhibiting a wealth of talents, styles and expressions.

Susan Calloway Fine Arts

1643 Wisconsin Ave | 202.965.4601 | www.callowayart.com | T –St 10-5 | A bright gallery filled ...

From the beginning, the relationship between Norman Parish and his wife Gwen centered around a deep appreciation for talent and beauty, values that come to life in the Norman Parish Gallery’s 20th Anniversary exhibition, “Living Embodiments: Artistic Expressions of Being” which will run until July 12.

The artists on exhibit at the Maurine Littleton Gallery bring to life an otherwise cold and transparent medium in their ...

Cross MacKenzie Gallery will be relocating to a new space downtown over the course of the summer. She sat down to speak with us about her personal history, her experiences in Georgetown, owning a gallery in today’s economy, and the blessings and burdens of championing the sculptural and ceramic arts.

very Tuesday and Thursday through July 26 at 1:30 p.m. at the White House Visitor Center, artist Peter Waddell will discuss his paintings in the exhibit, “An Artist Visits the White House Past.” The exhibit presents fourteen paintings commissioned by the White House Historical Association.

Here are some highlights from the local gallery scene, with exhibitions range from painter Ed Cooper's bucolic landscapes at Susan Calloway Fine Art, to the multifaceted and effusive group show from the Duke Ellington School of the Arts faculty at the Parish Gallery.

Nam June Paik and Lewis Baltz are not a likely association. The two artists never met in any substantial capacity or worked together, nor did they express any noted interest in one another. What they do have in common is that their works are both on display in compelling, complimentary exhibitions at the National Gallery of Art.

As a painter who has never abandoned his city, Sam Gilliam’s installation at The Phillips Collection is an achievement for the arts in Washington, reinforcing the community among the city’s visual arts efforts and breathing new life into the Phillips as a contemporary art museum.

The Ralls Collection has assembled another monumental exhibition, significant to the local community and the artistic community at large, which bridges an array of styles and influence into a cohesive and relevant body of works. It is only March, but this exhibition will surely go down as one of the major arts events of 2011.

Gauguin fills the National Gallery with some spectacular works that changed the form and focus of art. Gauguin's color greatly influenced the 20th century, and it was unlike anything in earlier European art. When he joined his talents to his quest for a paradise unfettered by modern civilization, his work broke into a powerful dreamscape.

Take a look into this art season's highlights, from Alexander Caulder and Gaugin, to the Phillips Collection's 90th anniversary and the innovations of the Textile Museum

NEXT at the Corcoran: BFA Class of 2011
April 23–May 22, 2011

On the footsteps of Corcoran’s progressive ...

Echoes of the Past: The Buddhist Cave Temples of Xiangtangshan
February 26–July 31, 2011 (Sackler Gallery)

Majestic sixth-century Chinese ...

Blinky Palermo: Retrospective 1964-1977
February 24, 2011- May 15, 2011

Palermo (1943-1977), renowned throughout Europe as an influential postwar painter ...

In Unison: 20 Washington, DC Artists
January 15 - February 26, 2011

The Kreeger initiated this exhibition with DC artist Sam ...

90 Years of New – 90th Anniversary

Since it first opened its doors in 1921, The Phillips Collection has been revered ...

Gauguin: Maker of Myth
February 27–June 5, 2011

Gauguin (1848–1903) was one of the most traveled artists in ...

Calder’s Portraits: A New Language
March 11-August 14, 2011

Most people recognize Calder (1898-1976) for his grandly ambitious, larger-than-life ...

To Make a World: George Ault and 1940s America
March 11, 2011 – September 5, 2011

During the 1940s, painter George ...

Green: the Color and the Cause
April 16 -September 11, 2011

This exhibition will celebrate everything green, both as a ...

The Cross Mackenzie Gallery, in Canal Square in Georgetown, has kicked off their artistic season with a small but resounding triumph. “Paisley Monuments,” the gallery’s latest exhibition of DC artist Tamara Laird, brings together a playful, natural whimsy with serene elegance, offering a fittingly contemporary aesthetic in a subtle sea of history.

Jackie Cantwell is a courageous young dynamo in the DC art world who has created Curating For A Cause, an ...

Come to the Jackson Art Center's Open Studio on Sunday, December 5, from 12 to 5pm, to see the variety of painting styles and the abundance of talent present in many media behind the walls of the Jackson Art Center.

Ari is a trained draftsman, and it shows in his series, “Place Names,” showing at the Parish Gallery in Georgetown, November 19-30. Ari’s paintings are “old school”—stripped of flash, subject matter irony and mixed media techniques of many painters showing today. The work is straight oil paining: pigment, linseed oil, turpentine and board, all applied with earnest, grit and hard labor.

The thousand-year-old “Shahnama,” or Persian book of kings, is resplendently represented in a jewel of a show at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. “Shahnama,” written by the revered ninth century Persian poet Firdawsi, is “in its cultural significance and popularity on equal footing with the works of Shakespeare, Homer and the Mahabharata,” says Massumeh Farhad, chief curator and curator of Islamic art, and organizer of the exhibition.

Visiting New York right now should include MoMA. The Museum of Modern Art sits in the middle of mid-town Manhattan in an assortment of buildings starting with the first International Style building in America by Stone and Goodwin, to the recent add-on by Taniguchi. With all the adding, the subtraction of this process has been the alteration of the way the original building opened onto the sculpture garden. It was once a real jewel of an urban space. I remember watching Natalie Wood way back in 1966 in MoMA’s garden, during the filming of “Penelope,” blowing bubble-gum.

It is rare to find such a steady and yet exciting subject as is found in both the paintings and the person of artist David Richardson. With an astonishing discipline, he has explored and unraveled three series of paintings, any one of them strong enough to exhibit individually.

Inscape that has hints of the natural world as well as jewel-fragments is found in the work of Robin Kohlman Fried.

The best photography show currently running in the DC area is Tom Wolff’s portrait series, at the 39th Street Gallery in Brentwood, Maryland.

Amateur and professional photographers take note — the deadline for D.C.’s premier photography competition looms large. The groundbreaking photography ...

The Georgetowner has hand-selected the best offerings for the upcoming fall art season. Here you will find a comprehensive gallery guide and museum highlights, as well as a variety sampling of featured artwork.

If the Washington Gallery of Modern Art were mentioned in conversation, most would not register the name. In fact, it was only open for seven short years in the 1960s.

Close’s colossal, hyper-realistic portraiture is as synonymous with his name as Jackson Pollock’s is with drip painting.

The mysterious and austere work of Mike Weber and Jason Wright is on display at 14th Street's Plan B Gallery.

The National Gallery doesn't have a strong showing from the American Modernist period. The Shein collection, featuring some of the era's finest works, will help fill in the gap.

When Paul Jett first began restoring the Sackler's latest Khmer artifacts, they were covered with detritus of almost 2,000 years.

White is not a color often featured in Western painting before the 20th century. That is, unless you're visiting the Phillips Collection this summer.

Elizabeth Kendall was taught to sew by her grandmother. That influence has found its way into her sculptures on more than one occasion.

Tayo Adenaike is an artist with something to say, even if one can only hear him by using their eyes.

The new exhibit at the WNDC, featuring the artwork of Congressmen and their families, contains some impressive surprises.

Iovino’s series of watercolors at the Parish Gallery, open through May 18th, is a kernel of cool mint, cleansing the palette between the explosive, bright flavors being offered around the city.

Spring is finally in the works, which is good news for art galleries. Ari Post and John Blee present their picks among Washington's galleries, museums and more.

Diane Epstein, who has lived there for 15 years, is renowned not only for her photography but for her culinary accomplishments.

At the Sackler Gallery, a wonderful exhibition of Tibetan art, “Lama, Patron, Artist: The Great Situ Panchen,” as well as a spectacular recreation of a Tibetan altar, have just opened.

At the Hirshhorn Museum, “Innovation and Inspiration” is a perfect title for the exhibition focusing on the work and teaching of Josef Albers.

Think “alternative space” and your mind will conjure up concrete floors, unfinished walls, improvised lighting with wires dangling from the ceiling. Alternative spaces in the hip, art world sense are somewhat rare in D.C., but are even rarer outside D.C. itself, let alone outside the Beltway, as the Adam Lister Gallery (3995 Chain Bridge Road, Fairfax, VA) is...

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