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Now that spring is upon the capital city and parents are looking for activities to entertain the little ones, consider ...

Abstract Expressionism is forever the American art movement. Like the myth of the Old West, with its solitary heroes and ...

After a few sunless months holed away in electrically heated offices, and with the final weeks of winter testing both ...

In tune with inaugural events, Art Soiree showed off the works of editorial cartoonists who drew their inspiration from President Obama's first term.

Thanksgiving came early this year, and the Christmas lights went up faster than you can say “Black Friday.” The season ...

The Spy Museum celebrates the 50th Anniversary of James Bond with the exhibit "Exquisitely Evil: 50 Years of Bond Villains".

In 2012, the work of Roy Lichtenstein has become basically prescient. The relevance of his 50-year-old concept has been widely amplified in recent years by the onslaught of social media and viral networking. Today, everyone shares and manipulates text and image with a personal flourish, from Facebook to Twitter, whose entire structures rely upon a cache of shared, recognizable symbols and icons.

With a Senate bill, endorsed by Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., longest-serving women in the history of the U.S. Congress, the plan for a women's history museum moves forward.

Words civilize us. They separate us fair-haired and dexterous animals of intellect from the world of beasts. A baby’s ...

Within the stone walls of the National Gallery of Art, the calm, quiet rooms are always cool and astonishingly breezy ...

Pop quiz: See if any of these persons, events, battles and none such ring a bell.

Isaac Brock, Tenskewatawa (The ...

We talk a lot these days about the effect of technology--sweeping, growing like mushrooms, constantly changing every nano-second--of our lives ...

Joan Miró: The Ladder of Escape, (its final and only venue outside of Europe ) will be on view at the ...

This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Smithsonian Craft Show Celebrating the Creative Spirit of America which will take ...

Museum exhibitions are not always user-friendly. There is an occasional air of intimidation or coldness about them, as if you ...

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.

It is ironic that the bastard son of the Duke of Northumberland left the family name on what was to ...

It’s been 54 years since photographer Alfred Wertheimer spent time with a budding, national phenomenon named Elvis Presley, traveling with him to New York, Richmond, Virginia, on a train ride to Memphis and Elvis’ pre-Graceland home. Wertheimer's exhibition captures the most intimate and human photos of the King perhaps ever taken.

Chris Murray, director of the Georgetown's Govinda Gallery and co-curator of the "Elvis at 21" exhibition, now at the National Portrait Gallery, talks about all things Elvis and the Washington art scene.

How the glorious National Gallery of Art got its start when a friend lent Paul Mellon the keys to his apartment.

Pity the National Portrait Gallery and its director Martin Sullivan.

Weeks after mounting the astoundingly comprehensive, direct and illuminating exhibition ...

The question of art at the dawn of the age of photography was a question that was asked with great passion and answered in infinite ways by several generations of photographers. Two current exhibitions, at the National Gallery of Art and the Phillips Collection, take up the banner of that debate.

Norman Rockwell can't get a break. Every time there’s a big exhibition of his works — as there is now at the Smithsonian American Art Museum — you can bet that someone, somewhere in the art world is going to scream bloody murder. What's behind the animosity?

Consider “Beat Memories: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg,” the new, nostalgic photographic exhibition at the National Gallery of Art.