D.C. Creatives Shine at the Umbrella Photo Fair
• September 29, 2025

By Mia Pech The Umbrella Photo Fair took place this past weekend at Gallery Place, showcasing more than 30 emerging and established photographers from across the DMV. The fair created […]

In the NGA’s Gallery 22: Corcoran Watercolors
• September 24, 2025

Along with the National Gallery of Art’s two feature presentations this fall — “Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955-1985,” which opened on Sept. 21, and “The Stars We Do Not See: […]

From Italy to the U.S., Depero’s Bold Futurism Takes Center Stage
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Art isn’t only for a visit to a museum.  The self-guided exhibition “Depero. Graphics: Between Italy & United States” is at the Embassy of Italy in Washington until January 30, […]

Fall Arts Preview: Visual Arts
• September 9, 2025

State Fairs: Growing American Craft  Renwick Gallery Through Sept. 7, 2026  The first exhibition of its kind, “State Fairs: Growing American Craft,” curated by Mary Savig, the Fleur and Charles […]

In Baltimore: Latin American Art at the Walters
• September 4, 2025

Beginning in his teens, Henry Walters, born in 1848 in Baltimore, spent his life elsewhere: in Paris during the Civil War; at Georgetown College, then Harvard; in Wilmington, North Carolina, […]

Public Art Talk at the Phillips, Aug. 22
• August 21, 2025

Public art is rarely problem-free. Consider the following three works, here in the nation’s capital. On June 19, 2020, Gaetano Trentanove’s bronze depiction of hirsute frontiersman and lawyer Albert Pike, […]

‘Delighting Krishna’ at the National Museum of Asian Art
• June 12, 2025

In 2011, I happened upon a Brooklyn Museum exhibition called “Vishnu: Hinduism’s Blue-Skinned Savior.” One of the showstoppers: a large painted textile of eight milkmaids in a line — four […]

First Saturday: April
• April 9, 2025

On the first Saturday of each month the National Gallery springs to life with a variety of engaging activities for all ages. All activities are free, and most are first […]

Gorey 100 at the Library of Congress
• January 13, 2025

Edward Gorey’s work, distinctly Edwardian, was never gory. True, he populated his curious tales with stoic victims of misfortune — among the childhood fatalities alphabetized in 1963’s “The Gashlycrumb Tinies,” […]

‘The Impressionist Moment’ at the National Gallery  
• November 13, 2024

On April 15, 1874, a small exhibition was opened in Paris by the “Anonymous Society of Painters, Sculptors, Engravers, etc.” It premiered one month before the opening of the French […]