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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.

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.

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

Baltimore Art, Antique & Jewelry Show
2022-10-20 - 2022-10-23 | Baltimore Convention Center
Now in its 40th year, this popular event showcases an array of furniture, American and European silver, art, Asian antiquities, porcelain, Americana, antique and estate jewelry, glass, textiles, contemporary fine crafts and more. baltimorefallshow.com

Vermeer’s Secrets
2022-10-08 | National Gallery of Art
Mysteries have long surrounded the acclaimed 17th-century Dutch master’s process and technique. During covid closures, National Gallery researchers performed a deep study of the museum’s four Vermeer paintings, as well as two 19th-century forgeries, using advanced imaging technology. This exhibit shares their findings.

2022 ASID Fall FRESH-UP
2022-10-07 | WASHINGTON DESIGN CENTER
Consumers will be treated to a personalized design experience during the American Society of Interior Designers Washington Metro Chapter’s first annual Makeover Day. Participants will not only receive a 45-minute consultation with an ASID designer but also enjoy seminars, showroom tours and lunch. Partial proceeds from the $125 admission fee benefit wishuponateen.org and ASID educational programs. dcmetro.asid.org

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

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.

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.

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

Perplexity
2022-09-17 - 2022-12-10 | The Kreeger Museum
Working in a range of media, seven Hamiltonian Artists Alumni mimic surfaces, spaces and objects, exploring the aesthetic possibilities of materials and textures.

Raoul Dufy: Drawn to Royal Ascot
2022-09-10 - 2023-02-26 | VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS
More than two dozen works on paper by the French Fauvist artist celebrate the pomp and pageantry of British horse racing. Sketches of the famous Ascot course made by Dufy at a 1930 event inspired the vibrant watercolors on view.

Make-Believe: Georgia Saxelby and Devan Shimoyama
2022-09-10 - 2022-12-11 | AMERICAN UNIVERSITY MUSEUM AT THE KATZEN ARTS CENTER
This installation blurs the lines between real and imagnary. Sculptures by Georgia Saxelby (pictured) and paintings by Devan Shimoyama explore alternate realities in a post-pandemic world where fantasy and imagination are amplified.

More Clay: Power of Repetition
2022-09-10 - 2022-12-11
Curated by Rebecca Cross of Cross MacKenzie Gallery, this exhibit of powerful ceramic sculptures created through accumulation and repetition demonstrates the principle: “out of many, one.” Pieces by eight artists on view include Kate Roberts’ Gates to Nowhere (pictured), a hanging work made by dripping bits of unfired clay on fishing line.

Feathered Ink
2022-08-27 - 2023-01-29 | NATIONAL MUSEUM OF ASIAN ART
Through January 29, 2023 This show explores various brush techniques Japanese artists applied in their depictions of birds over several centuries. On view are hanging scroll paintings, folding screens, ceramics and printed books; a dish by Ogata Kenzan (pictured) dates back to the 1700s. asia.si.edu

Photos in Arctic Artistry
2022-07-17 - 2023-01-08 | BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART
Twenty works explore the evolving role of indigenous artists in the North American Arctic. The exhibit traces the transition from the ornate, ritualistic and utilitarian objects crafted for many generations to present-day model kayaks and cribbage boards created for non-Native markets. artbma.org

The Woman in White: Joanna Hiffernan and James McNeill Whistler
2022-07-03 - 2022-10-10 | National Gallery of Art
This exhibit is the first to examine the life of Joanna Hiffernan, a model who was depicted in many early works by James McNeill Whistler and who played an integral role in his life. An impoverished Irish immigrant living in London, she and the artist had a five-year romance. Later, she served as Whistler’s manager and helped raise a child he fathered with another woman.

The Renaissance in the North: New Prints and Perspectives
2022-07-03 - 2022-09-27 | National Gallery of Art
The gallery displays a selection of rare prints, engravings, etchings and woodcuts created in Northern Europe from 1450 to the 1600s. Originating in the region that now comprises Germany, Switzerland, Belgium and the Netherlands, the works on view are a testament to the creative masters of the period.

We Are Made of Stories: Self-Taught Artists in the Robson Family Collection
2022-07-01 - 2023-03-26 | Smithsonian American Art Museum
This exhibit displays drawings, paintings and sculptures by 43 seminal self-taught artists of the 20th century; it includes a painted work on cut-and-pieced sheet metal by David Butler (pictured). The creations—most recent or promised gifts from the Robson family—encourage viewers to see the world through the eyes of others. americanart.si.edu

Grace of Monaco: Princess in Dior
2022-06-11 - 2023-01-08 | HILLWOOD MUSEUM
More than 80 pieces of couture, accessories and photographs on loan from the Palace of Monaco shed light on the glamorous wardrobe of Princess Grace and her longstanding collaboration with Marc Bohan, the one-time artistic director at House of Dior.

Mokha Laget: Perceptualism
2022-06-11 - 2022-08-07 | AMERICAN UNIVERSITY MUSEUM AT THE KATZEN ARTS CENTER
After studying fine arts at the Corcoran in DC and working under several Washington Color School artists in the ’80s and ’90s, Mokha Laget eventually moved to Santa Fe. The Katzen will display more than 40 of her abstract geometric expressions, from paintings and drawings to sculpture and lithographs. american.edu/cas/museum

Unexpected Occurrences
2022-06-04 - 2022-08-03 | The Kreeger Museum
Hamiltonian Artists is a DC incubator that promotes the careers of emerging visual artists. This indoor-outdoor exhibit presents new work by seven Hamiltonian Artists’ fellows alongside pieces in the museum’s permanent collection to examine how subject matter and media shift over time. The new creations include video, mixed media, photography and sculpture (such as a piece by Joey Enriquez, above).

Sam Gilliam: Full Circle
2022-05-25 - 2022-09-11 | HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN
The museum celebrates the late Washington-based abstractionist with an exhibit of his circular paintings, or tondos, created in 2021. Ranging from three to five feet in diameter, each starts with a beveled-wood panel on which the artist layers dense, vibrant pigments, sawdust and metal fragments to reveal a bold combination of colors and textures. Rail, a 15-foot installation completed by Gilliam in 1977 that is now part of the museum’s permanent collection, is also on view.

Salman Toor: No Ordinary Love
2022-05-22 - 2022-10-23 | BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART
Born in Pakistan and living in New York, Salman Toor upends tradition and outdated notions of power and sexuality in his work. This assemblage of 45 of his paintings and works on paper made between 2019 and 2022—some for this exhibit—weaves together motifs from historical works and 21st-century events.

American Craft Made
2022-05-20 - 2022-05-22 | Baltimore Convention Center
Glass bowls by Kenny Pieper.

More than 350 jury-selected craft artists display their work in a wide range of media, from ceramics, glass and jewelry to clothing, furniture and basketry. An online marketplace will accompany the show from May 16 to May 29.

Beatrice Glow: Once the Smoke Clears
2022-05-15 - 2022-10-02
An artist whose work focuses on the social history of plants, Beatrice Glow has turned her lens on tobacco and the repercussions of its trade. Digitally printed and embroidered silk textiles, 3D-printed objects and watercolors express both the decadent opulence and unsavory realities of the industry. artbma.org

Historic Ellicott City 34th Decorator Show House
2022-05-13 - 2022-06-05 | WOODBINE, MARYLAND
Seventeen local designers will transform 22 rooms in Oakdale, a 19th-century estate that once belonged to Maryland’s 45th governor, Edwin Warfield. Visitors can tour the revamped spaces and peruse a boutique, estate sale and art galleries. Situated on 180 acres, the property, including a manor house with an addition, is currently listed for sale at $6 million. historicec.com

Matisse: The Sinuous Line II
2022-05-08 - 2022-10-02 | BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART
A selection of works from the museum’s collection illuminates Henri Matisse’s ability to speak volumes about his subjects with a few simple lines. Pen-and-ink drawings, aquatints and bronzes reveal the artist’s shift from classical style to a more fluid treatment of the body. artbma.org

The Outwin 2022: American Portraiture Today
2022-04-30 - 2023-01-26 | National Portrait Gallery
This triennial competition recognizes work that challenges traditional definitions of portraiture. Open to artists living and working in the U.S., this year’s contest received entries in a wide range of media, from painting and photography to sculpture and performance art. npg.si.edu

Art at the Mill
2022-04-23 - 2022-05-08 | MILLWOOD, VIRGINIA
Situated in the picturesque Shenandoah Valley, historic Burwell-Morgan Mill is transformed into an art gallery each year as more than 300 artists display their creations. Works on view include paintings, mixed media, sculpture, fine woodworking and pottery.
