Historic Garden Week
Throughout VirginiaFor one week every spring, Virginia’s only statewide house and garden tour offers visitors insider access to private landscapes, public gardens and historic sites across the Commonwealth. Adding to the […]
For one week every spring, Virginia’s only statewide house and garden tour offers visitors insider access to private landscapes, public gardens and historic sites across the Commonwealth. Adding to the […]
This annual self-guided tour gives attendees the opportunity to step inside some of the most impressive homes and gardens in Georgetown. It also highlights the neighborhood’s charm and history—and constant evolution. A parish tea at St. John’s Episcopal Church follows.
Viewers are challenged to make connections between modern and Renaissance art in this exhibit that contrasts paintings by Rozeal and Cezanne with Titian masterpieces. Historic references and other similarities relate these disparate works over centuries.
Hosted by All Hallows Guild, this annual flower sale and spring event has been the primary fundraiser for the Cathedral’s gardens and grounds since 1939. This year’s theme is “In Living Color.” Vendors and food stalls offer a wide array of goods and treats in addition to fresh blooms, so there’s something for everyone.
On select Saturdays in May and June, tour-goers can experience historic structures, homes and gardens in five different parts of Maryland, including Queen Anne’s, Southern Anne Arundel, St. Mary’s, Washington and Prince George’s counties.
Twenty large-scale works on view at the NMWA explore Niki de Saint Phalle’s output as a printmaker. For the lively, color-saturated prints, which were made between 1968 and 1970, the artist found inspiration in the female form, the California landscape and mystical Tarot card illustrations.
With works from 120 artists on tap, the 2025 Bethesda Fine Arts Festival will feature a wide range of media, including ceramics, jewelry, printmaking, furniture and photography, to name a few. Festivities will take place in the Woodmont Triangle area along Norfolk, Auburn and Del Ray Avenues.
Now in its 34th year, the Tephra ICA Arts Festival (formerly known as the Northern Virginia Fine Arts Festival) will feature the original handmade work of more than 200 contemporary artists and artisans from across the country.
Latin American works ranging from ancient urns and textiles to contemporary ceramics will be displayed in the Baltimore museum’s newly renovated North Court galleries. Representing 40 different cultures and 4,000 […]
Named for the fertile soil of ancient indigenous civilizations in the Amazon, this show celebrates the splendor of the natural world through works by artists of color and Native identity. Environmental injustice and the legacy of European settlement is examined through paintings, sculptures and films.
This exhibition puts the relationship between art and European natural history under the microscope—specifically the study of insects and small animals. Featuring more than 75 detailed works that inspired generations of printmakers, decorative artists and naturalists alongside specimens and taxidermy from Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, these “little beasts” will likely leave a big […]
A selection of photographs offers an intimate look at the everyday lives of Indigenous peoples across the Western Hemisphere. Drawn from the museum’s vast archive of more than a half-million images, this show reveals moments of quiet reflection as well as family gatherings and ceremonies, captured from 1852 to the present.