The Great Inka Road: Engineering an Empire
@ National Museum of the American Indian
Jun 26 2015 – Jun 1 2018 all-day
12:00 am
The Inka Road stretches 20,000 miles across South America. Providing a vital link between the administrative and spiritual capitals of the ancient Inka world,...
Connections: Contemporary Craft from the Permanent Collection
@ Renwick Gallery
Jul 1 2016 – Jul 1 2018 all-day
12:00 am
The Renwick Gallery reopened last fall after an extensive renovation; now, an installation of artworks taken from the museum’s permanent collection will explore...
Encountering the Buddha: Art and Practice Across Asia
@ Freer | Sackler
Oct 14 2017 – Oct 1 2020 all-day
12:00 am
Fresh from a major renovation of its interiors, the Freer|Sackler reopens on October 14 with a weekend celebration of Asian art, food and culture....
Subodh Gupta: Terminal
@ Freer | Sackler
Oct 20 2017 @ 6:50 pm – Jun 24 2018 @ 7:50 pm
6:50 pm
The Freer | Sackler celebrates its October 2017 reopening with an installation by artist Subodh Gupta (above), who transforms utilitarian vessels found in India...
Arts of Asia
@ The Walters Art Museum
Oct 20 2017 @ 6:51 pm – Sep 20 2020 @ 7:51 pm
6:51 pm
This seminal exhibit highlights the artistic diversity of Asia, showcasing an array of objects from India, Nepal, Tibet Korea, Japan, Myanmar, Thailand and Cambodia.
Americans
@ National Museum of the American Indian
Oct 26 2017 – Sep 1 2027 all-day
12:00 am
Featuring nearly 350 objects and images, from a Tomahawk missile to a can of baking powder, this exhibit demonstrates the ways in which Indian...
Fabergé and the Russian Crafts Tradition: An Empire’s Legacy
@ The Walters Art Museum
Nov 12 2017 – May 27 2018 all-day
12:00 am
Between 1885 and the Russian Revolution of 1917, the House of Fabergé produced exquisitely jeweled and enameled Easter eggs for the Russian tsars. This...
Visionary: Viewpoints on
Africa’s Arts
@ NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN ART
Dec 20 2017 – Jan 1 2019 all-day
12:00 am
More than 300 works of art from the museum’s permanent collection are on display, including sculpture, painting, photography, ceramics, costumes
and jewelry from some...
Crowning Glory:
Art of the Americas
@ THE WALTERS
ART MUSEUM
Feb 15 – Oct 7 all-day
12:00 am
This exhibit reveals the many ways cultures throughout the Americas expressed power and identity by decorating and venerating the head. Spanning 2,500 years, 20...
Hung Liu In Print
@ NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS
Feb 15 – Jul 8 all-day
12:00 am
Chinese-born artist Hung Liu, who emigrated to the U.S. in 1984, adapts historical Chinese photographs in her work. This exhibit assembles pieces that Liu...
The Artistic Table
@ HILLWOOD ESTATE, MUSEUM & GARDENS
Feb 17 – Jun 10 all-day
12:00 am
Marjorie Merriweather Post’s historic estate will host an exhibit of table settings representing past and present. A display of 18th- and 19th-century tables recreated...
Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings
@ NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART
Mar 4 – May 28 all-day
12:00 am
Born in Lexington, Virginia, Sally Mann
creates haunting photographs ranging from still lifes and portraits
to landscapes. This exhibit showcases a wide array of...
Stephen Towns: Rumination and a Reckoning
@ BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART
Mar 7 – Sep 2 all-day
12:00 am
Born in Charleston, South Carolina, and based in Baltimore, Stephen Towns explores African American cultural issues in murals and mixed-media art. This exhibit includes...
Women House
@ NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS
Mar 9 @ 4:14 pm – May 28 @ 5:14 pm
4:14 pm
Inspired by a 1972 project that challenged
stereotypes of women in the home, this show features the work of
36 global artists from the...
Cézanne Portraits
@ NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART
Mar 25 – Jul 1 all-day
12:00 am
Assembling 60 portraits by Paul Cézanne, this extensive exhibit traces the evolution of the artist’s distinctive style and the influence
his subjects had on...
Sacred Spring: Vienna Secession Posters
@ BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART
Mar 25 – Jul 29 all-day
12:00 am
Posters from the collection of LeRoy E. Hoffberger and Paula Gately Tillman Hoffberger focus on the Vienna Secession, an influential group of late-19th-century artists...
Do Ho Suh: Almost Home
@ SMITHSONIAN AMERICAN ART MUSEUM
Apr 16 – Aug 5 all-day
12:00 am
In his first exhibition on the East Coast, Korean-born
Do Ho Suh invites viewers into his personal world with “Almost Home.” Known
internationally for...
To Dye For: Ikats from Central Asia
@ FREER | SACKLER
Apr 16 – Jul 29 all-day
12:00 am
Coming from the Malaysian word for “to tie,” ikats are made
by meticulously tying and coloring threads before they are woven into vibrant
textiles....
2018 Baltimore Symphony Associates Designer Show House
@ GREENSPRING VALLEY
Apr 20 – Jun 10 all-day
12:00 am
Built in 1927, a remodeled Oakland estate in Baltimore County’s Greenspring Valley will open to the public for the 41st Baltimore Symphony Associates’ Designer...
Secret Cities
@ NATIONAL BUILDING MUSEUM
May 3 2018 – Mar 3 2019 all-day
12:00 am
This show explores the modern architectural roots of
the three unmapped cities built from scratch to support the creation, development and execution of the...
World on the Horizon: Swahili
Arts Across the Indian Ocean
@ NATIONAL MUSEUM OF
AFRICAN ART
May 9 2018 – Dec 31 2019 all-day
12:00 am
This exhibit details the collision of myriad cultures on the Swahili coast in East Africa—a historic crossroads for peoples not only from Africa but...
Northern Virginia Fine Arts Festival
@ RESTON TOWN CENTER
May 18 – May 20 all-day
12:00 am
Celebrating its 27th year, this annual festival creates an 11-block “art walk” where more than 200 artists display everything from paintings to fiber art,...
Marking the Infinite: Contemporary Women Artists from Aboriginal Australia
@ THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION
Jun 2 – Sep 9 all-day
12:00 am
This exhibit features some 60 works created by nine female Aboriginal artists living in remote communities across Australia. The pieces on view—some specially commissioned...
A Nomad’s Art: Kilims of Anatolia
@ THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY MUSEUM
Sep 1 @ 7:06 pm – Dec 23 @ 8:06 pm
7:06 pm
Originally woven by women in Turkey’s nomadic communities as adornments for tents and caravans, kilims represent intricate examples of abstract art and artistic ingenuity....
Corot: Women
@ NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART
Sep 9 @ 6:49 pm – Dec 31 @ 7:49 pm
6:49 pm
This exhibition examines portraits of women by Camille Corot, a 19th-century French artist best known for his landscape paintings. Corot, who bridged France’s neoclassical...
Sean Scully: Landline
@ HIRSHHORN MUSEUM
Sep 13 2018 @ 6:12 pm – Feb 3 2019 @ 7:12 pm
6:12 pm
Thick, gestural brushstrokes and loose bands of color characterize Irish artist Sean Scully’s acclaimed “Landline” series, now making its U.S. debut. The series spans...
Rachel Whiteread
@ NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART
Sep 16 2018 @ 7:19 pm – Jan 13 2019 @ 8:19 pm
7:19 pm
Photographs, sculptures, drawings and documentary materials form this extensive survey of the works British sculptor Rachel Whiteread created during her 30-year career. Whiteread’s pieces...
Mark Bradford: Tomorrow is Another Day
@ Baltimore Museum of Art
Sep 23 2018 @ 6:30 pm – Mar 3 2019 @ 7:30 pm
6:30 pm
Los Angeles-born artist Mark Bradford mines the universe, Greek mythology and his own personal life in monumental abstract collages made of paper and scavenged...
Japan Modern: Prints in the Age of Photography
@ FREER/SACKLER MUSEUM
Sep 29 2018 @ 6:58 pm – Jan 21 2019 @ 7:58 pm
6:58 pm
The introduction of the printing press and photography in the 19th century challenged traditional Japanese woodblock printmakers to adapt their craft. This exhibit examines...
Chinese Snuff Bottles
@ THE WALTERS ART MUSEUM, Baltimore
Sep 30 @ 7:25 pm – Dec 9 @ 8:25 pm
7:25 pm
The Walters will display nearly 250 Chinese snuff bottles delicately crafted from stone, porcelain, lacquer and precious metals during the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). Reflecting...
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