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Musical Thinking: New Video Art and Sonic Strategies
2023-06-23 - 2024-01-29 | SMITHSONIAN MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART
This show explores the powerful connection between video art and music, showcasing 29 time-based installations by 10 award-winning creators. Harnessing genres from hip-hop and jazz to spirituals and lullabies, the works explore personal and universal themes that form a commentary on contemporary life. This is the museum’s first fully accessible exhibition, designed in conjunction with Gallaudet University to offer layered experiences for deaf and hard-of-hearing visitors.

Jessica Diamond: Wheel of Life
2023-07-14 - 2024-04-28 | Hirshhorn Museum
A text-and-image-based installation by New York conceptual artist Jessica Diamond offers a commentary on American culture and commercialism. Thirteen new wall drawings play off two of Diamond’s preexisting works.

Palace Life Unfolds: Conserving a Chinese Lacquer Screen
2023-07-15 - 2024-01-28 | NATIONAL MUSEUM OF ASIAN ART
The museum spotlights a 12-panel screen depicting women in an imperial palace during the Han dynasty. Visitors will learn about the 1672 screen’s meaning and manufacture as well as about recent conservation efforts to bring its intricate beauty back to life.

The Art of Advertisement: Art Nouveau Posters of the Late 19th Century
2023-07-22 - 2024-01-21 | VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS
The rise of stylized, mass-produced posters in late-19th-century Europe and America blurred the lines between fine and applied art. Works by top French, Belgian, Viennese and American artists emphasized natural beauty in the flowing lines and flourishing patterns of the Art Nouveau movement. These posters represent early depictions of women as fashionable, independent individuals and also heralded a new age in graphic design.

Handstitched Worlds: The Cartography of Quilts
2023-09-09 - 2023-12-23 | THE GW UNIVERSITY MUSEUM AND THE TEXTILE MUSEUM
By expressing the personal stories and experiences of makers and their communities, quilts often illuminate historical events and cultural trends. Drawn from the collection of New York’s American Folk Art Museum, creations on display range from traditional early-American quilts to contemporary sculptural assemblages. museum.

Cushner
2023-09-09 - 2023-12-10 | AMERICAN UNIVERSITY MUSEUM AT THE KATZEN ARTS CENTER
Mounted in partnership with Hemphill Artworks, this exhibition shines a light on Washington-based artist Steven Cushner, showcasing 34 small-scale works on paper, woodcut prints and large paintings.

Franklin White: An American in Venezuela
2023-09-09 - 2023-12-10 | AMERICAN UNIVERSITY MUSEUM AT THE KATZEN ARTS CENTER
DC artist Franklin White has spent the past two decades in Merida, Venezuela, enamored by its scenery and traditions. The Katzen presents a selection of White’s expansive oil pastels on handmade paper, depicting the mountain village’s natural beauty.

Rachel Rotenberg
2023-09-09 - 2023-12-10 | AMERICAN UNIVERSITY MUSEUM AT THE KATZEN ARTS CENTER
This exhibition focuses on sculptures by Rachel Rotenberg created using cedar planks and other materials. The artist, notes the Katzen, “has managed to build works on a heroic scale without sacrificing intimacy.”

Beyond the Light
2023-09-15 - 2023-12-13 | Artechouse
Science and imagination collide in a mind-bending video experience developed in collaboration with NASA. Exploring light as a thread connecting history, science and technology, the show reimagines cutting-edge processes and discoveries, including newly analyzed galactical data captured by the James Webb Space Telescope.

Composing Color: Paintings by Alma Thomas
2023-09-15 - 2024-06-02 | SMITHSONIAN MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART
The museum reflects on the career and work of late African American artist Alma Thomas, who was born in the Jim Crow South but spent most of her life in Washington, DC. The show reveals how Thomas’ materials and techniques continued to evolve until her death in 1978.

The Land Carries Our Ancestors: Contemporary Art by Native Americans
2023-09-22 - 2024-01-15 | National Gallery of Art
Pieces by some 50 living Native American artists are a testament to indigenous survival and knowledge of the land. Works on view run the gamut from weaving and sculpture to beading, painting and more.

Making Her Mark: A History of Women Artists in Europe, 1400-1800
2023-10-01 - 2024-01-07 | BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART
The museum displays more than 200 objects illustrating the integral role women played in the development of art, culture and commerce over four centuries. This vast display of royal portraits, devotional sculpture, tapestries, printed books, drawings, metalwork, ceramics and furniture made by both acclaimed and amateur women artists dispels the belief of the time that women creators were rare or less talented than their male counterparts.

DC-Metro Modern Home Tour
2023-10-07
The Modern Architecture + Design Society and listModern host a celebration of residential modern architecture and design. From DC to Arlington and McLean to Chevy Chase, come see the inside and out of some of DMV's most unique modern homes; meet the local architects, designers, and builders that created the homes; and find some inspiration or a partner for your next project. Pictured: A renovation by Alair Homes.

African Modernism in America, 1947-67
2023-10-07 - 2024-01-07 | The Phillips Collection
Featuring more than 70 creations by 50 artists, this exhibition explores art networks and exchanges between Africa and the U.S. during the postwar period. Organized into four parts, it reveals the depth of experimentation and diverse artistic practices that emerged in Africa in those years and the connections that challenged academic assumptions and biases.

Park Chan-kyong: Gathering
2023-10-07 - 2024-10-13 | NATIONAL MUSEUM OF ASIAN ART
Inaugurating its new modern and contemporary galleries, the museum spotlights the photographic work of Park Chan-kyong—the Korean artist’s first solo exhibit at a major U.S. institution. Visually powerful still and moving images examine South Korea’s complex history, from the impact of rapid socioeconomic development to effects of the Cold War on politics and society.

Etched by Light: Photogravures from the Collection, 1840–1940
2023-10-15 - 2024-02-04 | National Gallery of Art
This exhibit chronicles an early chapter in photography, when innovators perfected a way to etch a photographic image into a copperplate and print it in ink. Resulting images dazzled viewers with their delicate highlights and rich tonal range—and the process of photogravure was born. More than 45 photogravures will be shown along with bound-volume examples of the medium.

Forces of Nature: Voices that Shaped Environmentalism
2023-10-20 - 2024-09-02 | National Portrait Gallery
The gallery shines a light on scientists, politicians, activists, writers and artists who played a pivotal role in the conservation movement from the late 19th century until today. Showcasing more than 25 portraits of thought leaders ranging from Henry David Thoreau to Maya Lin, the exhibit also addresses issues of environmental justice, biodiversity and climate.

Sky’s the Limit
2023-10-21 - 2024-02-25 | NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS
Fresh from a two-year renovation, the museum marks its reopening with a dramatic exhibit featuring contemporary sculpture and immersive installations created over the past two decades by 13 women artists. More than 30 works of art, many monumental in scale, will dangle from the ceiling, cascade down walls and extend across the gallery floors.

Hung Liu: Making History
2023-10-21 - 2024-10-20 | NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS
Hung Liu (1948–2021) lived through Mao Zedong’s totalitarian regime before immigrating to the U.S. The museum reveals “weeping” paintings and prints by the artist featuring signature paint drips and layers of color. Inspired by vintage photographs discovered on a trip to China in the 1990s, the works convey the dignity and resilience of her subjects—predominantly migrant laborers, sex workers, female soldiers and refugees.

Impressive: Antoinette Bouzonnet-Stella
2023-10-21 - 2024-10-20 | NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS
French artist Antoinette Bouzonnet-Stella (1641–1676) is best known for a work entitled The Entrance of the Emperor Sigismond into Mantua. This series of 25 prints is on display as part of an exhibit focusing on her life and career in Paris, where she lived and studied in the Louvre with her uncle, artist Jacques Stella.

STILL SOMETHING SINGING
2023-10-21 - 2024-01-27
Sculptures and special installations dot the Kreeger’s grounds in a display that demonstrates how art encourages viewers to consider subjects from other perspectives. The eight works in this show were created by DC-area artists. Pictured: "Furies," a wood, steel and ceramic sculpture by DC-based Adam Bradley.

Singular Views: 25 Artists
2023-11-02 - 2024-09-04 | RUBELL MUSEUM DC
The museum highlights work by 25 influential contemporary artists from the U.S. and around the world. More than 120 selections in an array of media include paintings by DC-based Rozeal and a self-portrait by Baltimore’s John Waters.

Alexandre Diop: Jooba Jubba, l’Art du Defi, the Art of Challenge
2023-11-02 - 2024-10-31 | RUBELL MUSEUM DC
An exhibit spotlights Franco-Senegalese artist Alexandre Diop, whose mixed-media creations explore legacies of colonialism and the diaspora.

Simone Leigh
2023-11-03 - 2024-03-03 | HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN
Chicago native Simone Leigh explores themes of race, beauty and community in visual and material culture with references to vernacular and handmade processes from across the African diaspora. The Hirshhorn presents sculptures by the artist that were shown at the 2022 Venice Biennale, along with three new bronzes, video, ceramics and other earlier creations.

American Places: Featuring Selections from the Corcoran Collection
2023-11-03 - 2024-05-05 | National Gallery of Art
This show centers on paintingsa by 20th-century icons such as Georgia O’Keeffe, Grant Wood and Hale Woodruff depicting rural scenes and city life in the U.S. In addition, select works by artists affiliated with Washington’s Corcoran Gallery of Art shine a light on that institution’s lasting impact.

Dorothea Lange: Seeing People
2023-11-05 - 2024-03-31 | National Gallery of Art
More than 100 portraits on view of everyday Americans, taken from the Great Depression through the 1960s, are a testament to the prolific American photographer’s ability to capture the character and strength of her subjects. Throughout her 50-year career, Lange (1895–1965) focused her lens on scenes of economic disparity, migration, poverty and racism.

Ugo Rondinone / Louis Eilshemius
2023-11-07 - 2024-01-14 | The Phillips Collection
Focusing on the intersections of poetry and nature in visual art, The Phillips pairs the large-scale forest landscape paintings of contemporary Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone with more than 50 paintings by American artist and poet Louis Michel Eilshemius (1864–1941). The museum also displays poems on paper and diary paintings by Rondinone, who is a longtime collector and admirer of Eilshemius’ work.

An Evening with Stan Dixon at The Georgetown Club
2023-11-08 18:30 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | The Georgetown Club
Sponsored by the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art Washington Mid-Atlantic Chapter, this event celebrates Stan Dixon’s eponymous book, The Residential Architecture of D. Stanley Dixon: Home. HOME is the debut book from award-winning Southern architect Stan Dixon, one of a highly influential group of Atlanta-based architects and designers who are revolutionizing the design world with their work. Stan Dixon’s edited approach to the classical elements of architecture creates an understated aesthetic that is historically based while embracing influences of modern design. Through contextually sensitive work of appropriate style, scale, and proportion, he crafts buildings of permanence and delight, while providing their occupants with a beautiful place in which to live their lives. Dixon takes risks in blending genres and styles, with results that are creative and original.
Copies of the book will be available for sale and refreshments will be served. Please refer to The Georgetown Club for dress code.

Whistler: Streetscapes, Urban Change
2023-11-18 - 2024-05-04 | NATIONAL MUSEUM OF ASIAN ART
Fascinated by cities undergoing drastic change in the late 19th century, James McNeill Whistler depicted many historic London and Paris structures shortly before they were demolished to make way for modernity. This show unveils more than 100 works by the artist—oil paintings, watercolors, pastels and prints—that capture these bygone scenes.

Mark Rothko: Paintings on Paper
2023-11-19 - 2024-03-31 | National Gallery of Art
The gallery traces the evolution of Rothko’s oeuvre through some 100 finished paintings on paper that are unfamiliar to critics and the public. Ranging from early watercolors to monumental oils and acrylics, the works are only a fraction of the museum’s vast Rothko repository—all of which is viewable online and about to be published in a catalogue raisonné.
