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Called to Create: Black Artists of the American South
2022-09-18 - 2023-03-26 | National Gallery of Art
In 2020, the museum acquired 40 works from the Souls Grown Deep Foundation—all created by Black artists who were seldom recognized for their contributions. Though many were made from recycled materials and leftover scraps of fabric, these sculptures, paintings, reliefs and quilts represent deep cultural traditions and outstanding artistic achievement. nga.gov

Intersections: Jonathan Monaghan—Move the Way You Want
2022-09-22 - 2022-11-18
Past meets present in this immersive exhibit that juxtaposes futuristic digital imagery with two paintings from the museum’s permanent collection. Drawing on disparate influences, from video games to Baroque architecture, Monaghan’s work poses provocative questions about consumerism and today’s technology-driven society.

Artist to Artist
2022-10-01 - 2023-09-23 | Smithsonian American Art Museum
Rather than working in a vacuum, many artists seek feedback and criticism from their peers. Eight pairings of works on view shed light on how artists support each other outside the purview of patrons, curators and dealers. Paul Cadmus’ Night in Bologna (pictured) is part of the show.

Life on Pennsylvania Avenue
2022-10-01 - 2023-03-25 | THE GWU MUSEUM AND THE TEXTILE MUSEUM
This exhibit documents the buildings, parks and businesses that lined Washington’s historic promenade from the White House to the U.S. Capitol in the 19th century. Pictured: A depiction of President Garfield's inauguration as it appeared in Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, 1881.

Sargent and Spain
2022-10-02 - 2023-01-02 | National Gallery of Art
John Singer Sargent traveled extensively throughout Spain, capturing its landscapes, marine scenes, street life and architecture in his work. This exhibit assembles more than 120 of the artist’s oils, drawing and watercolors—including Camprodón, c.1892, pictured—that depict the wonders of Spain and its people. nga.gov

A Better Way Home: The Housing Affordability Breakthrough Challenge
2022-10-21 - 2023-05-08 | NATIONAL BUILDING MUSEUM
The museum shares the work of six winning teams that participated in a three-year, $20 million initiative to find innovative ways to close the economic gap in the affordable-housing market. Conceived by MASS Design Group, the exhibit shares the winners’ novel ideas in the areas of housing finance, construction and resident services.
Pictured: Breakthrough Challenge winner Forterra propelled its Forest to Home innovation forward in 2021, completing the first all cross-laminated timber modular prototype in the United States at a local facility in Everett, Washington. The modules will be stacked up to 12 stories to create multifamily homes for 35% below the cost of conventional construction. Photo: Forterra

Abundance: Too Much, Too Little, Just Right
2022-10-22 - 2023-09-03 | AMERICAN VISIONARY ART MUSEUM
This Baltimore exhibition focuses on the joy of the here-and-now with more than 200 daring works created by self-taught artists using found or discarded materi- als. The show promotes the idea that instead of yearning for more things, people can find fulfillment by applying ingenuity and imagination to what’s already in their grasp.

Lookout: Katharina Cibulka
2022-10-28 - 2023-02-26
Closed to visitors for renovation, the museum continues to engage patrons with online content as well as displays on its exterior. In her first U.S. installation, Austrian artist Katharina Cibulka covers the north-facing façade with a monumental net of bright-pink tulle bearing stitched messages that address gender-based inequity and social power structures.

John Akomfrah: Purple
2022-10-28 - 2023-08-31 | HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN
Addressing themes surrounding climate change, this hour-long video features new and archival footage of disappearing landscapes from Greenland and Alaska to the Tahitian peninsula. Created by London-based artist and filmmaker John Akomfrah, the work plays across six screens, accompanied by an original score and spoken word.

DC-Metro Modern Home Tour
2022-11-12 | Washington, Arlington and Great Falls
Modern design buffs will will get a very unique look into the homes of the architects, designers, and builders that created them on this self-guided tour. Organized by the Modern Architecture + Design Society and local partner/sponsor listModern, this tour invites guests to explore some of the area’s most spectacular modern homes. Architects, designers, and builders will be on site and ready to talk about their work with visitors. The principal designers/architects of BLD.US, Paola One Design, Sagatov Design+Build, AV Architects + Builders, and A2 Design Inc. will welcome participants into their own homes, located in DC, Arlington, and Great Falls.
Pictured: The 1952 Ridgeview House in Arlington has been completely updated by A2 Design Inc.

An Italian Impressionist in Paris: Giuseppe De Nittis
2022-11-12 - 2023-02-12
Italian artist Giuseppe De Nittis, who was very much a part of the Paris art scene in the 1870s and ’80s, is known for his detailed realism. The Phillips unveils paintings from all periods of his career, including The Place du Carrousel: The Ruins of the Tuileries (pictured). Work by some of his comrades, including Edgar Degas and Edouard Manet, is also on view.

A Splendid Land: Paintings from Royal Udaipur
2022-11-19 - 2023-05-14 | NATIONAL MUSEUM OF ASIAN ART
This assemblage of paintings on paper and cloth created between 1700 and 1900 celebrates the palaces, lakes and mountains of Udaipur, a city in northwestern India, illustrating the region’s cultural and political evolution.

Vittore Carpaccio: Master Storyteller of Renaissance Venice
2022-11-20 - 2023-02-12 | National Gallery of Art
The first exhibition outside of Italy to be  dedicated to this 15th-century master displays some 75 of his creations, from large-scale narrative paintings to drawings that once graced the homes of  Venetian elite.

Coming Attractions: The John Waters Collection
2022-11-20 - 2023-04-16 | BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART
Charm City icon John Waters bequeathed 372 objects from his art collection to the Baltimore Museum of Art in 2020. This exhibit reveals about 90 of the works, including paintings, sculptures, photographs and prints by Diane Arbus, Nan Goldin, Cindy Sherman, Cy Twombly and Andy Warhol.

Stanley Whitney: Dance with Me Henri
2022-11-20 - 2023-04-23 | BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART
Matisse has long inspired contemporary artist Stanley Whitney, who was commissioned to create stained-glass windows for the BMA. This exhibit explores parallels between the artists’ work. Several Matisse prints—including The Lagoon (above)—are shown with sketches Whitney made for the commission.

Omar Ba: Political Animals
2022-11-20 - 2023-04-02 | BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART
The BMA shines a light on Senegal-born Omar Ba, who explores the notion of power through paintings, modular works and a site-specific mural. The artist portrays a range of people and subjects along with real and imagined creatures in his commentary on society.

Darrel Ellis: Regeneration
2022-11-20 - 2023-04-23 | BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART
During his short career, New York-based Darrel Ellis redefined Black male identity and family through his complex paintings, drawings and photography. This show presents 60 works on paper plus archival materials that chronicle the life and work of the mixed-media artist, who died in 1992 at age 33 of an AIDS-related illness.

Holiday Fete
2022-12-06 - 2022-12-16 | WASHINGTON DESIGN CENTER
Local designers partner with showrooms to create festive tabletops and seasonal décor. A party on December 6 kicks off the celebration; displays remain on view through the 16th. Home & Design is the media sponsor of the event, which benefits Children’s National Hospital.  Pictured from last year's Fete: A stunning table by Myron Wolman in the Schumacher showroom. Photo: Bob Narod

Isaac Julien: Lessons of the Hour—Frederick Douglass
2022-12-10 - 2023-07-09 | VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, RICHMOND
This immersive, 10-screen film installation by Sir Isaac Julien focuses on 19th- century abolitionist Frederick Douglass and the influences of technology and images on human relations. Spanning space and time, the display interweaves Douglass’ speeches and writings with reenactments of his travels around the globe.

A Collector’s Eye: Freer in Egypt
2022-12-17 - 2023-02-28 | NATIONAL MUSEUM OF ASIAN ART
Charles Lang Freer, patron of the museum’s Freer Gallery, was intrigued by ancient Egypt. He visited the country three times, collecting works ranging from glass vessels to amulets and a Byzantine jewelry set, many of which will be on view for the first time in this exhibit. asia.si.edu

Looking Up: Studies for Ceilings, 1550–1800
2023-01-29 - 2023-07-09 | National Gallery of Art
For centuries, some of the most ambitious and compelling art in Europe was painted on ceilings in styles ranging from Baroque to Neoclassical. The National Gallery spotlights 30 examples of remarkable ceiling decoration, from preliminary studies to large-scale models.

Anne Lindberg: what color is divine light?
2023-02-04 - 2023-07-01 | THE GWU MUSEUM AND THE TEXTILE MUSEUM
This immersive installation combines thousands of fine chromatic yellow and blue threads to create a color scheme that the eyes and mind cannot perceive. In what she calls an “imaginary, mysterious, unnamed space,” the multi-media artist pushes viewers to contemplate the divine—which, like these colors, she says, “is unnamable, untouchable, intangible.”

The Trawick Prize: 20th Anniversary Emerald Award
2023-02-04 - 2023-03-17 | AMERICAN UNIVERSITY MUSEUM AT THE KATZEN ARTS CENTER
For 20 years, The Trawick Prize has recognized exceptional artists in DC, Maryland and Virginia. The Katzen celebrates 18 past prize-winners with a showing of their work in sculpture, painting, mixed media, film and more.

Madayin: Eight Decades of Aboriginal Australian Bark Painting from Yirrkala
2023-02-04 - 2023-05-14 | AMERICAN UNIVERSITY MUSEUM AT THE KATZEN ARTS CENTER
This ground-breaking show is not only the first major exhibition of Aboriginal Australian bark-painting in the U.S., it’s also the largest display of Aboriginal Australian art to be seen in the Western Hemisphere in 30 years. The Yolngu people in northern Australia’s Yirrkala region tell stories about the interconnectedness of man, animals and the land; the Yolngu were stakeholders in the creation of this exhibit.

A Window Suddenly Opens: Contemporary Photography in China
2023-02-06 08:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Hirshhorn Museum
The Hirshhorn focuses on Chinese photography’s recent shift away from realism and toward conceptual art. The 186 images on view, made between 1993 and 2022, reveal how Chinese artists have independently embraced the immediacy of print and digital photography, recorded performance and video art.

Intersections: Linling Lu, Soundwaves
2023-02-09 - 2023-04-30 | The Phillips Collection
Originally trained as a classical pianist, Linling Lu creates exuberant works of art inspired by the properties of sound. For this solo show, she created a series of abstract paintings that translate the musical notes of Philip Glass’ Etude no. 16 into spatial configurations, shown in the artist’s trademark rings of brightly colored, concentric circles.

I Dream a World: Selections from Brian Lanker’s Portraits of Remarkable Black Women, Part II
2023-02-10 - 2023-09-10 | National Portrait Gallery
Like the first installation of this exhibit, which remains on view through January 29, the second part also presents portraits by Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Brian Lanker of Black women who changed America. Subjects include seminal figures such as Cicely Tyson, tennis champion Althea Gibson (pictured) and Oprah Winfrey.

In Quiet Beauty: The Watercolors of Léon Bonvin
2023-02-15 - 2023-08-13 | THE WALTERS ART MUSEUM
Léon Bonvin (1834-1866) is known for his exquisite watercolors, inspired by Japanese prints, photography and trends of the day. Following the French artist’s tragic suicide, Baltimore patron William Walters began to acquire Bonvin’s paintings, amassing what became the largest collection of his work in existence; Walters’ son later bequeathed the collection to the city of Baltimore. Sixteen paintings are on view.

Determined Women: Collectors, Artists and Designers at Hillwood
2023-02-18 - 2023-06-18 | HILLWOOD MUSEUM
An accomplished businesswoman and legendary arts patron, Hillwood founder Marjorie Merriweather Post applauded female artists and designers. Hillwood displays art and objects from its collection that depict women whom Post admired, along with work created by women—from an 18th-century Fabergé pencil holder to a 1790 French painting of Princess Elizabeth (pictured).

Prayer and Transcendence
2023-02-18 - 2023-07-01 | THE GWU MUSEUM AND THE TEXTILE MUSEUM
The museum presents a stunning array of antique Islamic prayer rugs collected around the globe from Ottoman Turkey to Mughal India. Exploring the spiritual meaning behind the rugs’ iconic motifs, the show also offers comparisons to Jewish traditions.
