30th Annual Baltimore Summer Antiques Show 
September 2 to 5 

www.baltimoresummerantiques.com
Maryland’s largest antiques event features more than 550 international exhibitors who display their wares in the Baltimore Convention Center. Attendees can browse a wide selection of furniture, jewelry, art and textiles.

Side by Side: Oberlin Masterworks at the Phillips
September 11 to January 16, 2011

www.phillipscollection.org

The Phillips Collection will unveil 25 masterpieces previously shown at the Allen Memorial Art Museum of Oberlin College. Artists featured include Paul Cezanne, Adolph Gottlieb, Claude Monet, Mark Rothko, Peter Paul Rubens and J.M.W. Turner.

 

Colonial Market and Fair

September 18 & 19

www.mountvernon.org

This event at George Washington’s Mount Vernon Estate and Garden features 18th-century crafts, entertainment and cuisine. Artisans dressed in colonial garb demonstrate and sell crafts such as baskets, woodcarvings and weavings.

Walter Wick: Games, Gizmos and Toys in the Attic

September 19 to January 2, 2011
www.thewalters.org

Award-winning author and photographic illustrator Walter Wick is celebrated in this exhibit at Baltimore’s Walters Art Museum. The author of Can You See What I See? and co-creator of the I Spy book series has put together 55 large-scale photographs from his books, six models and behind-the-scenes video clips in an effort to help fans understand his artistic process.

Capital Home Show
September 24 to 26
http://capitalhomeshow.com

Dulles Expo Center is host to more than 500 experts, ready to show off the latest in home design and dish out tips and ideas to help you save on all your personal projects. With vendors representing all spectrums of the home-improvement industry, exhibits feature everything from patio furniture to landscaping, kitchen designs and building materials

A Revolution in Wood: the Bresler Collection
September 24 to January 30, 2011

www.americanart.si.edu

This exhibit at the Renwick Gallery celebrates the art of wood-turning and focuses on finely detailed objects from the 1980s and 1990s from the collection of Fleur and Charles Bresler.

Fiona Tan: Rise and Fall
September 25 to January 16, 2011

www.asia.si.edu

Major photographs and videos by Fiona Tan are on view for the first time in the U.S. in this exhibit at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. An Indonesian artist who now resides in Amsterdam, Tan takes a conceptual and aesthetic approach in her extremely evocative work.

Vantage Point: The Contemporary Native Art Collection 

September 25 to August 7, 2011  

http://americanindian.si.edu

This exhibit at the National Museum of the American Indian highlights contemporary work by 25 artists that reflects the experiences of Native people today. Featured media include basic drawings, photography and mixed-media installations.

Designing Tomorrow: America's World's Fairs of the 1930s 

October 2 to July 5, 2011

www.nbm.org

During the Great Depression, the architecture and design at world's fairs and their accompanying concepts of science and consumerism brought a sense of hope to those who were suffering. Now, the National Building Museum exhibits almost 200 never-before-assembled artifacts from those celebrated fairs that predicted architecture and design of the future.

TruthBeauty: Pictorialism and the Photograph as Art: 1845-1945
October 9 to January 9, 2011

www.phillipscollection.org

This exhibit at The Phillips Collection displays more than 130 photographs by pictorialists such as Julia Margaret Cameron, Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Weston, and traces the pictorialist medium back to its beginnings. Recently acquired Alvin Langdon Coburn holdings from the New York (1909), Paris (1910) and Men of Mark (1913) portfolios accompany the exhibit.

Colors of the Oasis: Central Asian Ikats 

October 16 to March 13, 2011

www.textilemuseum.org

Ikats were once used to symbolize wealth, status and prestige in Asian oasis towns. Now, they provide inspiration for artists and designers because of their bright colors, bold graphic designs and rich fabric textures. This exhibition at The Textile Museum features ikats donated by collector Murad Megalli, all of which are on public view for the first time.

 

Andy Warhol: The Last Decade 

October 17 to January 9, 2011

www.artbma.org

More than 50 of Andy Warhol’s latest works have been compiled by the Baltimore Museum of Art in this exhibit, which focuses on the artist’s renewed passion for experimentation in the last years of his life. These works are more varied than his renowned screen-printed images, and range from self-portraits to riffs on other artists’ works.

Guillermo Kuitca: Everything—Paintings and Works on Paper

October 21 to January 16, 2011
http://hirshhorn.si.edu

This exhibit at the Hirshhorn Museum is the Argentinean artist’s first comprehensive collection shown in the U.S. in more than a decade. The show includes Kuitca’s earliest works as well as his most recent, and provides a catalogue of interviews with the artist and essays on his work.

 

Hide/Seek Difference and Desire in American Portraiture 

October 30 to February 13, 2011

www.npg.si.edu

This exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery explores differences between the genders. By examining how culture has influenced sexuality in portraiture, the exhibit shows how the genre in turn has influenced American culture. The show includes work from artists such as Thomas Eakins, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Georgia O’Keefe and Andy Warhol.

 

Ongoing

Telling Stories: Norman Rockwell from the Collections of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg
July 2 to January 2, 2011
www.americanart.si.edu
Two of America’s best-known modern filmmakers—George Lucas and Steven Spielberg—recognized a kindred spirit in artist Norman Rockwell and acquired significant collections of his work. An exhibit at the American Art Museum showcases 57 pieces from their private collections, exploring connections between the movies and Rockwell’s portrayal of American life.

2010 Halls of Fame Design House
Through December 4
www.dcdesigncenter.com
The Washington Design Center has created a spacious new show-house venue on its fifth floor. Designers Olvia Demetriou, David Herchik, Kelley Proxmire, Frank Babb Randolph, Michael Roberson, Nestor Santa-Cruz, Victor Shargai and Rita St. Clair—all members of the Center’s Hall of Fame—have created chic rooms using the vast array of furnishings and materials available in its showrooms.

Masterpieces of Chinese Painting
Through November 28
www.asia.si.edu
This exhibit displays some of the finest Chinese paintings in the Freer Gallery’s collection. Diverse categories are represented, such as portraits, landscapes and more.

Edvard Munch: Master Prints
Through October 31
www.nga.gov
This exhibit at the National Gallery of Art spotlights the central ideas and accomplishments of 20th-century Norwegian artist Edvard Munch and includes 60 of his rare prints and hand-colored variations.

Advancing Abstraction in Modern Sculpture
Through February 20, 2011
www.artbma.org
Approximately 40 works of sculpture by Ellsworth Kelley, David Smith, Hans Arp, Naum Gabo and Henry Moore are on display at the Baltimore Museum of Art. This exhibit shows how modern artists moved beyond the figure to create abstract forms.